An Appealing Subject
Life on the Wild Side
Acting on
Endangered Species
FSA
[Forest Service Acronyms]
Sensitive About Species
100
He's the R8 Appeals Coordinator.
Who is Jim Bennett?
100
It is the only species of trout native to the southeast.
What is the brook trout?
100
It is the FWS document that authorizes incidental take.
What is a Biological Opinion?
100
MIS
What are Management Indicator Species?
100
The FS official who designates the sensitive species list.
Who is the Regional Forester?
200
It's the document submitted to USFWS for concurrence.
What is the BA [or BA/BE]?
200
It is the only T&E bird species in the southern region with a translocation program.
What is the red cockaded woodpecker?
200
The three categories of species listed under the ESA.
What are Endangered, Threatened and Proposed?
200
NEPA
What is National Environmental Protection Act?
200
A global ranking applied by NatureServe, it's the category for the most imperiled species.
What is G1?
300
It's the time period that establishes the legal standing to appeal.
What is the 30 day notice and comment period?
300
Sometimes considered a game animal, this nuisance species escaped from a game farm in western North Carolina in 1935.
What is the Russian boar [feral hog]?
300
They're the elements used to discuss effects to Critical Habitat.
What are Primary Constituent Elements?
300
SPA
What is Supplemental Project Agreements?
300
The combined impacts due to past, current, and foreseeable impacts, due to private and federal actions.
What are cumulative effects?
400
It's the document used to update an existing decision for new information.
What is a SIR [Supplemental Information Report]?
400
This federally-listed reptile lives in burrows dug by another at-risk species.
What is the indigo snake?
400
It's the section of the ESA that discusses recovery actions.
What is Section 7(1)a?
400
ARO
What is an Appeals Review Officer?
400
The number of years a federally delisted species remains on the sensitive species list.
What is five years?
500
CE's implementing the forest plan are appealed under these regulations.
What are the CFR 215 Appeal Regulations?
500
This watch-list species is threatened by hybridization with another bird species.
What is the golden-winged warbler?
500
It’s the procedure used to address effects on candidate species with the USFWS.
What is conferencing?
500
CCA
What is a Candidate Conservation Agreement?
500
How sensitive species will be addressed under the new planning rule.
What is Species of Conservation Concern?
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