Eco DD
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Who is EVERYONE ON YOUR TEAM?
This trio of indicators is evaluated when determining whether an area qualifies as a wetland in Florida.
What are hydric soils, hydrophytic vegetation, and wetland hydrology?
This is the regulatory consequence of impacting or misclassifying an occupied burrow within a project area.
What is unauthorized/incidental take of a protected species?
This federal permit program regulates the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States.
What is the Section 404 Permit?
DBH means
What is Diameter Breast Height?
This Eco DD section identifies possible impacts and mitigation, without prescribing project design changes.
What is the ecological constraints section?
This term describes wetlands that fall under regulatory authority as opposed to those without enforceable oversight.
What are jurisdictional wetlands?
This action is prohibited once a burrow is identified within a project footprint without authorization.
What is clearing or construction within the burrow buffer?
This agency regulates the Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL).
What is the Florida department of environmental protection?
This condition frequently results in trees being exempt from preservation requirements.
What is a dead or hazardous tree?
To identify potential wetland mitigation options for a project, this geographic/basin designation area must first be determined.
What is the mitigation bank service area?
This federal document establishes the technical basis for identifying wetlands nationwide.
What is the 1987 Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual?
This buffer applies around gopher tortoise burrows during construction activities.
What is a 25-foot burrow buffer?
Discovering fill material placed in wetlands without authorization most often leads to this permitting pathway.
What is an after-the-fact permit?
Conks, fungal fruiting bodies, or soft, decayed wood along the trunk are field indicators of this condition.
What is bole rot?
This source combination (4) is used in Eco DDs to identify potential listed species without making regulatory determinations.
What are site observations, iPAC, consultation areas, and the biodiversity matrix?
This regional supplement applies specifically to wetland delineations in Florida.
What is the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Regional Supplement?
Relocated juvenile gopher tortoises are identified using this approved marking method rather than drilling or tagging.
What is marginal scute notching?
This permit type is typically required when impacts cannot be avoided and exceed standard thresholds.
What is an Individual Permit?
This term is commonly used to describe a tree that exceeds standard protection thresholds due to size, age, or species.
What is a specimen tree?
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This soil condition is defined by a matrix chroma of 2 or less with redoximorphic features.
What is hydric soil?
Female gopher tortoises are typically identified by this plastron characteristic.
Answer: What is a flat plastron?
This permit coordination is required when federal authorization is issued but state water quality must still be addressed.
What is Section 401 Water Quality Certification?
This structural defect occurs when bark becomes trapped between two stems or a branch union, preventing proper wood-to-wood attachment.
What is included bark?