Step 1. You selected timber operations and forestry
practices.
Step 2. Determining whether your
activity is likely to disturb nesting bald eagles.
To avoid disturbing the breeding eagles and their
young, we recommend that you do the following:
- Avoid clear-cutting or removal of overstory trees within
330 feet(100 meters) of both active
and alternate nests at any time.
- Avoid timber harvesting operations, including road construction
and chain saw and yarding operations, during the nesting
season within 660 feet (200 meters) of the nest. The
distance may be decreased to 330 feet around alternate
nests within a particular territory, including nests that
were attended during the current nesting season but not
used to raise young, after eggs laid in another nest within
the territory have hatched.
- Selective thinning and other silviculture management
practices designed to conserve or enhance habitat, including
prescribed burning close to the nest tree, should be undertaken
outside the nesting season.
- If burning during the nesting season is necessary, do
the following:
- Conduct burns only when adult eagles and young
are absent from the nest tree (i.e., at the beginning
of, or end of, the nesting season, either before
the particular nest is active or after the young
have fledged from that nest).
- Take precautions such as raking leaves and woody
debris from around the nest tree to prevent crown fire
or fire climbing the nest tree.
- Avoid construction of log transfer facilities and in-water
log storage areas within 330 feet (100 meters) of active
and alternate nests nest.
Signature:___________________________________________________
Date: _____________________________________
These recommendations are valid only for the states of Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
and Tennessee.
Once you print a copy of this page
send to appropriate ES Field Station
(for addresses go to http://www.fws.gov/southeast/es/ndxeso.htm)
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