FONSI for the EA for the Amendments to the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Dunes Sagebrush Lizard CCA and CCAA

FONSI for the EA for the Amendments to the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Dunes Sagebrush Lizard CCA and CCAA
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Environmental Assessment for the issuance of an amended section 10(a)(1)(A) Enhancement of Survival Permit for Incidental Take of the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) and dunes sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.

Learn more about sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus) to the Center for Excellence for the Amended Candidate Conservation Agreement and Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for the conservation of the lesser prairie-chicken and dunes sagebrush lizard in southeastern New Mexico.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office
We work with public and private partners to conserve and restore New Mexico's threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, wetlands, and other important fish and wildlife resources. To accomplish our mission, we implement the following priorities: Endangered Species, Environmental...
Conservation Office
Albuquerque,NM
Program
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We assess the conservation status of species, using the best scientific information available, and identify those that warrant listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A species that we find warrants a proposal to list as endangered or threatened, but listing is...
Program
Baileys Crossroads,VA
Species
lizard on sandy ground

The dunes sagebrush lizard is a small, light brown phrynosomatid lizard (family Phrynosomatidae, genus Sceloporus) with a maximum snout-to-vent length of 70 millimeters (mm) (2.8 inches (in)) for females and 65 mm (2.6 in) for males (Degenhardt et al. 1996, p. 160). Sabath (1960, p. 22) first...

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Animalia
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Species
A male lesser prairie-chicken in the fading sunlight

The lesser prairie-chicken is a species of prairie grouse endemic to the southern and central high plains of the United States, commonly recognized for its feathered tarsi (legs), stout build, ground-dwelling habit, and lek mating behavior. The LEPC is closely related and generally similar in...

FWS Focus
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Kingdom
Animalia
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Reptiles
Birds
FWS and DOI Region(s)
Southwest
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Candidate Conservation Agreements
Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances