Chapter 4 Habitats
Priority Conservation Action, Examples of Focal Species or Focal Habitats • Work with the Little Tennessee Native Fish Conservation Partnership, a consortium of state and federal resource management agencies, Mainspring Conservation Trust, Watershed Association for the Tuckasegee River, and other stakeholders that identify and address issues common across the watershed in North Carolina. Current projects include finding solutions for construction contractor training in erosion prevention BMPs, land acquisition, and planting riparian vegetation on private land. • Partner with Soil and Water Conservation District programs, such as the Agriculture Cost Share Program, as they are also effective partner programs for conservation in priority areas. • Continue working with Duke Energy, Brookfield Energy, Northbrook Energy, FERC, and other resource agencies and cooperators to fulfill relicense settlement agreements and other mitigation for hydropower impacts from Little Tennessee Basin projects. • Investigate, implement, and support (as appropriate) programs that are directed at candidate or listed species recovery (e.g., Candidate Conservation Agreements, Habitat Conservation Planning, Safe Harbor agreements). • The entire Little Tennessee River Basin across North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee state boundaries has been designated a Native Fish Conservation Area by the Fisheries Conservation Foundation, and an interstate and multi-partner steering committee with topical work groups has been established to identify and cooperatively address basin-wide issues. More information is available online https://www.littlet.org.
References are located at the end of this document.
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