The Act
This section of the ESA regulates Interagency Cooperation and the need to consult with the USFWS
What is section 7?
This type of consultation is needed when your project "may affect, is likely to adversely affect" a species
What is formal consultation?
Commonality of Northern-longed ear bat, Rusty-patched bumblebee, and the sheepnose mussel
What are federally listed species according to ESA?
An area which contains those physical or biological features (a) essential to the conservation of the species and (b) which may require special management considerations or protection, and in which the boundaries must go through a rule-making process
What is "critical habitat"?
WisDOT's USFWS liaison
Who is Darin Simpkins?
The duration an Endangered Resources Review is valid.
What is one year?
The cabinet level office that is the authority on the ESA
What is the Department of Interior?
Impacting this type of habitat requires a separate effect determination from the species determination
What is "critical" habitat?
To harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct of a federally listed species
What is take?
While not defined by the ESA, the presence of this type of habitat within or near a project area indicates that the species may be present
What is suitable habitat?
This is the website a project applicant uses to generate a project specific species list
What is IPaC? (Information for Planning and Consultation)?
The state listing status of the Karner blue butterfly
What is special concern?
The two agencies responsible for compliance of the ESA
What are the USFWS and NMFS (NOAA)?
Discountable, insignificant, or beneficial effects to a species typically result in this determination
What is "may affect, not likely to adversely affect"?
Take of listed fish or wildlife species that results from, but is not the purpose of, carrying out an otherwise lawful activity
What is "incidental" take?
According to the USFWS, there is a greater risk of encountering a Rusty-patched bumblebee in these areas
What is a "high potential zone" (HPZ)?
To ensure positive identification and reliable results, surveys for a listed plant species should be conducted during the growing season when the species is doing this
What is blooming?
Species with known or suspected problems with distribution or abundance but are not legally protected by the Wisconsin Endangered Species Law.
What are special concern species?
The year the endangered species act was signed into law
What is 1973?
Possible impacts to a proposed species may require this type of communication effort between a federal agency and the USFWS
What is "conference"?
The document the USFWS issues to allow "take" of a listed species by a federal agency
What is a biological opinion?
As a larvae of a Karner blue butterfly I exclusively eat this plant
What is "wild blue lupine" (Lupinus perennis)?
The publicly available document in which the USFWS must announce the intent to list a species and gather input from the public
What is the Federal Register?
Cave bats, common activities, no/low impact activities
What are examples of broad incidental take permit/authorizations (BITP/A)?
This president signed the Endangered Species Act into law.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This type of biological opinion reduces the need for individual project biological opinions
What is a "programmatic" biological opinion?
These measures are used to lower the risk of impacting a listed species on a project
What are "avoidance and minimization" measures?
Sand is not the ideal substrate for these listed aquatic species that rely on stable substrate in Wisconsin's rivers
What are freshwater mussels?
This section of the ESA allows the USFWS to extend certain protections that apply to endangered species to threatened species.
What is Section 4(d)?
Wartyback, fawnsfoot, ellipse
What are species of state listed (threatened) mussels?