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Fact Sheet Habitat Conservation – Public Notice October 2010

BPA funds conservation of Oregon, outlining how much habitat must be protected in coming years. BPA will receive wildlife easementFac int WillametteShe eValleyt habitat credit for funding the purchase of this conservation easement that will partially mitigate Lafayette, Yamhill County, Oregon Location: for the impacts caused by the construction and (see map). inundation of hydroelectric and flood control dams Acres: 1,310 in the Willamette Basin. The purchase would go forward in October 2010, pending approval of the Partners: Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist agreement between BPA and Oregon. AbbeyF aand thec Oregont SDepartmenthe of Fishe andt Wildlife This property is located in a high-priority conservation area as identified in the Oregon Wildlife Conservation Purpose: The Bonneville Power Administration Strategy adopted by the Oregon Department of Fish is funding the purchase of a conservation easement and Wildlife. The types of habitat on the property in the Yamhill River Watershed in Oregon’s include native conifer woodlands, upland prairie, Willamette Valley. The funding is contingent oak savanna, oak woodlands, grasslands and wet uponF approvalac of ant agreement Sh withe the statee t

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Fact Sheet Sustainable forest production, agriculture and healthy wildlife habitat in the Willamette Valley. Fact Sheet Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey Monastery

prairies. This habitat supports many species of designed to operate a viable commercial business plants and wildlife including several migratory and by growing diverse native forests while enhancing resident birds such as the acorn woodpecker, and conserving wildlife habitat and retaining streaked-horned lark and white-breasted nuthatch. biological legacies such as snags, large live trees and down wood on the forest floor. The management Type of action: BPA is funding the acquisition plan is periodically reviewed and revised as of a conservation easement. The existing landowner, necessary to ensure that it continues to meet the Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey, will continue Forest Stewardship Council’s principles and to own and manage the land. Under the terms of criteria for sustainable forest operations. Our Lady the conservation easement, development restrictions of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey and BPA will work are placed on the land and the conservation together to assure that the open space values values, and the property will be enhanced either created by the working landscape and protected through natural or active restoration processes under the conservation easement will be conserved ensuring that high-quality habitat will be protected and sustained. in perpetuity. For more information, contact: Land management: Our Lady of Guadalupe Bonneville Power Administration Trappist Abbey is currently managing this property Joe DeHerrera, Wildlife Biologist 800-622-4519 or for sustainable forest production and agriculture. 503-230-3442, [email protected] The majority of the property is in forest production. Operations are guided by a management plan Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey based on the sustainable working forest model Father Dick Layton, Business Manager that has been approved by the Forest Stewardship 503-852-0103, [email protected] Council. This plan is a land conservation strategy

2 BPA Fish and Wildlife Program: BPA’s fish and wildlife program protects and preserves valuable fish and wildlife habitat throughout the Northwest. Since its inception in 1980, the program has set aside more than 300,000 acres of land benefiting hundreds of species. The program protects habitat from development either through outright purchase of land or by purchasing conservation easements on privately owned property. BPA works in partnership with conservation groups, local tribes and state fish and wildlife management agencies.

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Bonneville Power Administration DOE/BP-4206 • October 2010