Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats

• Description: Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎ and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central Platte River, Nebraska
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 7/1/1997
• Author: Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• Title: Cooperative Agreement for Platte River Research and Other Efforts Relating to Endangered Species Habitats Along the Central Platte River, Nebraska
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Contract/Agreement

• determining periods of excess and shortage in the operation of
Program reregulation and water conservation/supply projects.
(2) protecting and, where appropriate, restoring at least
10,000 acres of habitat in the Central Platte River area in habitat
complexes located between Lexington and Chapman, Nebraska.
The Governance Committee may, through the adaptive
management process, agree to undertake, fund or give credit for
activities outside this area with the intent to focus activities to
create the greatest biological benefit to the target species.
C. Subsequent Lncrements. Consistent with Paragraph VLE, DOI
and the states agree that the objectives of subsequent program increments
will be defined by the DOI and the states through the Governance
Committee prior to the conclusion of the first increment.
4. Progress toward Meeting Objectives. Subject to the provisions of
Paragraph VLE below, DOI and the states intend that during the first increment,
progress toward the Program objectives and for ESA compliance purposes will
be measured through the achievement of milestones developed by the
Governance Committee. Milestones for the first increment will be developed
• during the term of the Cooperative Agreement, and any milestones for
subsequent increments will be developed prior to the beginning of such
increments. All milestones may be revised as a result of the adaptive
management process, subject to the provisions of Paragraph VLE below.
B. Adaldu The Program will be administered using an
incremental and adaptive management approach. By this approach, the Governance
Committee will monitor and evaluate the impacts of the activities implemented in the
first increment of the Program on the associated habitats and the response of the target
species to those impacts. The Program will use monitoring and evaluation protocols
developed during the term of the Cooperative Agreement and peer reviewed and
modified as appropriate. Based on the monitoring and evaluation results, additional
actions and/or adjustments to existing actions will be identified and implemented,
consistent with the purposes of the Program. The adaptive management process will
include:
1. Habitat Baseline Documentation. The Program will be built upon a
habitat platform consisting of the existing, or baseline, quantity and quality of
habitat for target species, along with the landscape features of the Central Platte
River Valley.
2. Monitoring nr� otocol. Adaptive management requires monitoring of the
is target species and the associated habitats to observe their response to the
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