Recovery zone approach

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• Recovery zone approach
• Historic ranges
• Spread risk
• Opportunistic

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Recovery Plan
Golden paintbrush
Fenders blue
Nelsons checkermallow
Willamette daisy
Kincaids lupine
Bradshaws lomatium
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Candidates and species of concern
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Fenders blue
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Fender blueRecovery Zones
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Fenders blue- Potential functioning networks
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Willamette daisy
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How many plant populations are enough?
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Delisting goals for plants
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Willamette daisy distribution
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Willamette daisy Recovery Zones
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Annual cost estimates for recovery are
But Year 1 was 2008
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Draft Prairie Species Habitat Conservation Plan
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Wet Prairie

• Willamette Valley Prairie
• Less than 1 remains
• Significant portion in Benton County

Upland Prairie
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Taylors checkerspot butterfly
Fenders blue butterfly
Nelsons checkermallow
Peacock larkspur
Willamette daisy
Kincaids lupine
Bradshaws lomatium
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The Plan

• The Endangered Species Act allows incidental take
  through Incidental Take Permits with accompanying
  Habitat Conservation Plans.
• Impacts to listed species occur in Benton County
• Benton County Activities
• Cooperator Activities
• Construction on private land
• Impacts require mitigation.
• HCPs plans for mitigation in advance, ensuring it
  is
• Biologically effective and coordinated (not
  isolated and haphazard).
• Logistically and economically efficient.

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What are the benefits of the HCP?

• The HCP
• Allows landowner to work directly with the County
  to address ESA issues rather than working with
  USFWS.
• Time saver.
• Without an HCP
• any action affecting Fenders blue butterfly
  habitat requires a USFWS Permit.
• If County issues permit affecting Fenders blue
  habitat, both County and landowner are liable.

Fenders Blue
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In a nutshell

• Benton County will
• Avoid and minimize impacts to plants and
  butterflies on County-owned lands, and where
  impacts occur, mitigate for them, through
• Implementing best management practices.
• Conserving priority roadside populations in
  Special Management Areas.
• Enhancing Prairie Conservation Areas.
• Forecast impacts of home, farm and forest
  construction on butterfly habitat, and mitigate
  for this impact.
• Acquire properties or easements and conduct
  County-managed mitigation at these sites.
• Provide permits to Cooperators with clear
  limitations and accountability.

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Chapter 6 Conservation Measures

• Example Conservation Measures
• Acquire and manage properties with populations of
  covered species or prairie habitat.
• Special Management Areas (SMAs) in priority
  roadside populations of covered plants.
• Designate Prairie Conservation Areas to be
  managed for conservation of the covered species.
  Specific areas of some PCAs may be used as
  mitigation sites.
• Augment or enhance populations of Covered Species
  at PCAs with more plants/habitat to mitigate for
  impacts.
• Develop a Prairie Conservation Strategy to
  facilitate effective conservation actions with
  Cooperators.

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Distribution of threatened and endangered species
in Benton County
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Covered Lands - Private

• Outside city limits
• Within Fenders Blue Zones-butterfly habitat
  hotspots
• Urban Rural Residential, Exclusive Farm Use and
  Forest Conservation Zones

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Chapter 5 Covered Impacts
1Emergency response 1 of popns on public lands
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Chapter 5 Covered Impacts

• Anticipating home, farm and forest construction
  on private lands
• Calculated from aerial photos and permits on
  file.

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Chapter 5 Covered Impacts

• Anticipating home, farm and forest on private
  lands
• All lots (not including possible partitions) in
  hotspots, including vacant and already developed.

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Prairie Conservation Areas in Benton County
Ft. Hoskins

EE Wilson Wildlife Area
Beazell Memorial Forest
Butterfly Meadows
Jackson-Frazier Wetland
Owens Farm
Fitton Green
Wren Preserve
Bald Hill
Lone Star Ranch
Lupine Meadows
Philomath Prairie
Herbert Open Space