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Habitat Improvement | The Service undertakes various types of habitat improvement practices on private lands. Use of the term "habitat improvement" refers to any habitat restoration, enhancement, or establishment (singularly, or in any combination) as defined below.
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Habitat
Restoration
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Is the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a site with the goal of returning full functions to lost or degraded native habitats. Habitat restoration includes:
Examples include: replanting trees and/or other native vegetation (e.g., planting bottomland trees or longleaf pine/wiregrass on suitable sites) and/or restoring hydrology (e.g., use of ditch plugs, water-control structures, levees or other practices to re-establish wetlands such as depressional wetlands on land-leveled agricultural fields; drained mountain bogs, Carolina bays, etc.). |
Habitat Enhancement
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Is the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of native habitat to change specific function(s) or the seral stage present. Habitat enhancement includes:
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Habitat Establishment |
Is the manipulation of the physical,
chemical, or biological characteristics present to support and maintain
habitat that did not previously exist on the site.
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