Pima County’s Multi-species Conservation Plan: Final Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................. iv 1 Introduction to the Pima County Multi-Species Conservation Plan ...................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Purpose and Need for the MSCP ..................................................................... 1 1.2 MSCP Goals and Objectives ............................................................................ 2 1.3 Pima County MSCP: Required Elements ......................................................... 3 1.4 Take ................................................................................................................. 4 2 Planning Area and Background Information ..................................... 6 2.1 Pima County MSCP Planning Area .................................................................. 6 2.2 Collection and Synthesis of Data for the SDCP and MSCP ............................. 6 2.3 Priority Vulnerable Species .............................................................................. 8 2.4 The Maeveen Marie Behan CLS and the Reserve Design Process ................. 8 3 Plan Scope and Anticipated Impacts ............................................... 13 3.1 Permit Area .................................................................................................... 13 3.2 Permit Duration .............................................................................................. 15 3.3 Covered Species ............................................................................................ 15 3.4 Covered Activities for the Pima County MSCP ............................................... 15 3.5 Additional Benefits of Implementing the MSCP .............................................. 23 3.6 Projected Spatial Footprint of Covered Activities ........................................... 25 3.7 Effects of the Pima County MSCP on Covered Species: Habitat Loss .......... 27 3.8 Indirect Effects of Covered Activities .............................................................. 28 3.9 Effects of the Pima County MSCP on Critical Habitat .................................... 30 3.10 Covered Impacts to WUS and Use of the MSCP for Programmatic Consultation with the Corps ........................................................................... 30 4 Avoidance, Minimization, Mitigation and Implementation of the Conservation Program ...................................................................... 34 4.1 Avoidance and Minimization – SDCP Retrospective ...................................... 34 4.2 Avoidance and Minimization – Permit Compliance ........................................ 45 4.3 Mitigation Tools .............................................................................................. 45 4.4 Calculating Credit for Mitigation Lands ........................................................... 51 4.5 Implementation of the Mitigation Program ...................................................... 54 4.6 Regulatory Standards and Relationship to Recovery ..................................... 60 4.7 Species Reintroductions ................................................................................. 61 4.8 Conservation and Recovery of Aquatic and Riparian Species ....................... 62 4.9 Additional Implementation Elements .............................................................. 64 4.10 Permit Phasing ............................................................................................... 65 4.11 Amendments .................................................................................................. 66 i Pima County’s Multi-species Conservation Plan: Final 5 Land and Resource Management .................................................... 67 5.1 Land Management Approaches and Guidelines for Mitigation Lands ............ 67 5.2 Ranchland Management ................................................................................ 72 5.3 Land Protection and Enforcement .................................................................. 75 5.4 Management Plan Development .................................................................... 76 5.5 Cooperative Wildlife Management.................................................................. 76 6 Monitoring and Adaptive Management ............................................ 77 6.1 Compliance Monitoring ................................................................................... 77 6.2 Effectiveness Monitoring ................................................................................ 77 6.3 Program Duration and Phasing ...................................................................... 82 6.4 Location of Monitoring Activities ..................................................................... 83 6.5 Data Management .......................................................................................... 84 6.6 Adaptive Management ................................................................................... 84 6.7 Adaptive Monitoring: Changed Circumstances and New Methods ................. 86 6.8 PCEMP Oversight .......................................................................................... 87 6.9 Monitoring Partnerships ................................................................................. 87 7 Changed Circumstances, Unforeseen Circumstances, No Surprises, and Other Federal Commitments................................... 88 7.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 88 7.2 Changed Circumstances ................................................................................ 88 7.3 Unforeseen Circumstances ............................................................................ 98 7.4 Additional Federal Commitments ................................................................. 102 7.5 New or Proposed Listings of Uncovered Species and Increased Populations of Listed but Uncovered Species: Permit Amendment ............. 103 8 Funding Mechanisms and Commitments ...................................... 104 8.1 Summary of MSCP Costs ............................................................................ 104 8.2 Assured Funding Mechanisms ..................................................................... 107 8.3 Potential Funding Mechanisms .................................................................... 112 8.4 Additional Potential Funding Sources........................................................... 114 9 Reporting and Public Participation ................................................ 116 9.1 Reporting ...................................................................................................... 116 9.2 Audit ............................................................................................................. 118 9.3 Responsibilities of Permit Participants ......................................................... 118 9.4 Public Participation and Oversight ............................................................... 120 9.5 Voluntary and Collaborative Partnership Opportunities ................................ 121 10 Glossary of Terms and Acronyms ................................................. 122 10.1 Terms .......................................................................................................... 122 10.2 Acronyms ..................................................................................................... 129 ii Pima County’s Multi-species Conservation Plan: Final 11 Preparers and Contributors ........................................................... 131 11.1 Preparers and Contributors of Current MSCP .............................................. 131 11.2 Preparers of Previous Drafts ........................................................................ 131 12 Literature Cited................................................................................ 137 List of Tables 2.1. Land ownership in Pima County. .......................................................................... 6 2.2. Acres of land in each CLS category and non-CLS lands in Pima County, excluding tribal lands. ........................................................................................... 9 3.1. Species to be covered under Pima County’s Section 10 permit. ........................ 16 3.2. Projected acres of impacts to the CLS from Covered Activities in the Pima County MSCP Permit Area. ................................................................................ 25 3.3. Acres of habitat loss projected to occur as a result of Covered Activities within the Permit Area. ....................................................................................... 29 3.4. Summary of the modeled impacts to Waters of the U. S. (WUS) on Covered Species. .............................................................................................................. 33 4.1. Existing Pima County regulations and protocols that avoid and minimize impacts to scenic, cultural, and wildlife resources. ............................................. 35 4.2. Acres of mitigation that are anticipated to be needed for Pima County to fulfill the mitigation obligations of the Section 10 permit. ............................................ 47 4.3. Acres of potential mitigation credit that Pima County has already acquired for the

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