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<br />(.., <br />) <br /> <br />'::1" <br />""... <br /> <br />~ .~ <br /> <br />...ehabi I itation accounted fo... an inc...ease in othe... he...baceous habitat <br />types by 4.2 ac...es and a dec...ease in c...opland by the same 4.2 ac...es. <br />The ...esults of some USDA assisted wildlife habitat development <br />p...actices we...e also ...eco...ded du...ing this last monito...ing unit visit. <br />The p...actices accounted fo... a 2.1 ac...e inc...ease in pe...ennial <br />he...baceous vegetation and a 4.4 ac...e inc...ease in wetlands (Type 3). <br />Habitat changes due to USDA mitigation effo...ts a...e not included in the <br />ana I ys I s of impacts caused by on-fa...m i...... i gat ion s!/stems. The net <br />change in habitat ac...eage due to SCS assisted activities (othe... than <br />wi Idl Ife habitat p...actices) was an inc...ease of 21.B ac...es of c...opland, <br />a dec...ease of 32.0 ac...es of othe... he...baceous habitat types and a <br />dec...ease of 5.4 ac...es of wetland. <br /> <br />The USDA, in coope...ation with the U.S. Bu...eau of Reclamation and the <br />U.S. Fish and Wi Idl ife Se...vice, ag...eed to develop 0... imp...ove 1200 <br />ac...es of pe...manent wi Idl ife habitat in the G...and Valley. As of <br />Decembe... 31, 1990, about 767 ac...es of wi Idl Ife habitat development 0'" <br />imp...ovements have been planned. Of the 767 ac...es planned, 92 ac...es <br />have been i nsta II ed, I eav i ng about 1108 ac ...es ...ema In i ng to be <br />developed. <br /> <br />PLANNING AND TRACKING <br /> <br />The Mesa Countv P...o iect ImD I ementat i on P I an (PIP), G...and Va I I ey Un i t <br />publ ished in July 1990 I ists in Table I "The EI igible P...actices List <br />and Cost-Sha...e Ratio". The conse...vation p...actices I isted in this <br />table a...e the ones the G...and Junction Field Office a...e p...ima...i Iy <br />planning and instal ling fo... the benefit of both upland and wetland <br />wi Idl ife habitat development. <br /> <br />Wi I d life conse...vat i on p I ann i ng is an ongo i ng pa...t (of the cont...act <br />awa...ds. Not a II fa...me...s des I...e pe...manent wi I d life p I ann i ng that can <br />be used fo... and c...edited towa...ds mitigation ...eduction. Howeve..., many <br />annual conse...vation p...actlces a...e installed that pr'ovide benefits for <br />wi Idl Ife but allow no c...edit towa...ds mitigation. Some of these <br />p...actices consist of conse...vation ti Ilage, minimum ti Ilage, no fall <br />plowing, planting winte... cove... c...op and leaving wel I cove...ed washes, <br />d...ains, and hedge...ows alone. <br /> <br />SCS uses a volunta...y mitigation p...og...am and thus cannot ...equi...e <br />landowne...s to mitigate when wi Idl ife habitat ac...eage is lost. <br />The lost ac...eage will be ...ep I aced somewhe...e in the G...and Va II ey <br />P...oject A...ea as pe... ou... mitigation ag...eement stated in the EIS. <br /> <br />T...acking wi Idl ife and wetland habitat in the G...and Valley consists of <br />...eco...ding individual habitats installed th...ough conse...vation <br />p...actlces. T...acking of specific conse...vation p...actices installed have <br />been going on since the beginning of the p...og...am, eleven yea...s ago. <br /> <br />46 <br />