LANDOWNER COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT FOR THE MILLER TREE FARM NTMP UNDER THE BLENCOWE PROGRAMMATIC SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENT, MENDOCINO COUNTY CALIFORNIA

This is a voluntary agreement that recognizes the unique and important role that private landowners in California can play in helping wildlife valued by the people of the State and of the nation. The purpose of the Agreement is to enable land management activities beneficial to northern spotted owl to be carried out on privately owned land while minimizing the impact of such activities on the right and ability of the owner or manager thereof to use it as he or she wishes.

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The Arcata Fish and Wildlife Office is a field office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Our work in northern California includes scientific assessments, habitat restoration, and conservation of listed species.
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The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
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Northern spotted owl

ESA status: threatened (June 1990)

The northern spotted owl is the largest of three subspecies of spotted owls, and inhabits structurally complex forests from southwestern British Columbia, through Washington and Oregon, and into northern California. The northern...

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