9415

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9415
• Author: Colorado Department of Natural Resources.
• Title: Species Conservation Trust Fund ‎(HB 98-1006)‎\
• USFW Year: 1999.
• Copyright Material: NO

D. The Department will retain responsibility for protecting species under the Act,
and will work in close coordination and cooperation with the State in determining
when, and if, a species requires such protection.
E. If a species covered by a Conservation Agreement ultimately requires protection
under the Act, the Conservation Agreement will serve as the foundation for the
state and federal agencies, in cooperation with all other affected parties, to jointly
develop a Recovery Agreement. The Recovery Agreement will retain those
elements of the Conservation Agreement that will benefit the species as well as
actions additional to those in the Conservation Agreement that are necessary to
conserve and recover the species. It will be the affirmative responsibility of the
Department to advise the State of specific changes or additions needed to allow
a Conservation Agreement to serve as a Recovery Agreement within 90 days after
final listing of a species or as otherwise agreed to by the State and the
Department.
The State and the Department believe that development and implementation of
Recovery Agreements will streamline implementation of the formal requirements
of the Act for threatened and endangered species to the mutual benefit of
conservation and development goals. Recovery Agreements will outline specific
actions to be taken by state and federal agencies and other affected parties that
will serve the following functions:
(1) identify priority actions lilmly to accelerate recovery and down-listing or
delisting of the species;
(2) provide a basis, as appropriate, for the development of Conservation
Recommendations, Reasonable and Prudent Measures and Reasonable and
Prudent Alternatives for activities requiring consultation under Section 7
of the Act;
(3) provide a framework for the development of Habitat Conservation Plans
and, for threatened species, 4(d) rules.
F. The State and the Department intend Recovery Agreements to, where practicable,
focus on habitat based, landscape, and multiple species approaches to
conservation actions and planning that will allow multiple issues and opportunities
to be considered together to benefit Colorado's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The State and the Department agree that there is value in taking a broad view of
public lands (State and Federal) and their management to determine if there are
opportunities to develop public land management objectives and practices that
better promote conservation of species and habitat conditions that sustain them,
consistent with multiple uses where permitted. The State and the Department also
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