1997-06-13_REPORT - M1981302 ‎(11)‎

• Permit No: M1981302
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 6/13/1997
• From: US DEPT OF THE INTERIOR
• To: TE/UTE LADIES TRESSES COVERY PLAN
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Summary. The previous discussion outlines concepts and procedures for
achieving Ute ladies'-tresses recovery through improvement of watershed
condition and function. The focus on watershed level planning and management
is necessary because it is watershed conditions and processes that create and
maintain orchid habitat and thus assure perpetuation of orchid populations.
The recovery effort will be accomplished through an interagency,
interdisciplinary, watershed evaluation, planning, and management effort. An
interagency, interdisciplinary team will evaluate key watersheds, recommend
orchid recovery goals and delisting criteria appropriate for the watershed,
recommend management objectives, develop standards and guidelines for
achieving management objectives, create an action plan for implementation of
management objectives and standards and guidelines, and work with public and
private resource managers and Federal and state agencies to craft and secure
the necessary land management designations and management agreements to
implement the action plan and affect recovery of the orchid. Orchid recovery
efforts will be coordinated with other programs designed to improve the
condition or status of other sensitive species and riparian and aquatic
ecosystems. Where orchid populations occur in habitats not connected with
current watershed processes, their protection and management will be directed
by the orchid Recovery Team and will involve site-specific actions. These
disjunct populations will be protected and managed until such time as the
species is recovered or the populations are no longer considered essential for
orchid recovery. The orchid Recovery team will incorporate orchid population
and habitat recovery goals recommended for each watershed into overall
population and habitat recovery goals and delisting criteria. The orchid
Recovery Team will also solicit and oversee research efforts to acquire the
necessary information to set specific, quantifiable, management and population
targets and assess progress toward them.
B. Steydown Outline for Recovery Actions
1. Define, manage, and restore watersheds.
1.1 Assemble Interdisciplinary Teams.
1.2 Conduct Watershed-Orchid Evaluation.
1.3 Define and delineate Riparian Habitat Conservation Areas and Critical
Contributing Areas.
1 .4 Develop Riparian/Aquatic Management Objectives (RMOs) .
1 .5 Develop Standards and Guidelines.
1 .6 Determine population and habitat recovery goals for the watershed to
use as criteria for delisting.
1.7 Identify, describe, and prioritize watershed, riparian habitat, and
orchid population recovery and restoration projects.
1.8 Establish monitoring objectives and design a monitoring plan.
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