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TURNER <br />ENDANGERED <br />SPECIES <br />FUND <br />Nick Wiley, Executive Director <br />Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission <br />620 South Meridian Street, MS 2A <br />Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1600 <br />Dear M iley: N <br />As owner of the Avalon Plantation in Jefferson County, Florida, I <br />relocation of gopher tortoises from permitted gopher tortoise inc' <br />habitat for up to 3 gopher tortoises per acre at the Avalon Ann i <br />acres of gopher tortoise habitat. Based on surveys of the exi <br />Avalon Annex recipient site has sufficient space to receive 1 ge <br />The Annex recipient site is located at 30025'06:67"N, i <br />ID #s: 02 -1S -3E-0000-0030-0000, 0.1 -1S -3E-0000-001 <br />0000-0020-0000). /1-1 <br />Conserving biological <br />diversity by ensuring the <br />persistence of imperiled <br />species and their habitats <br />aszs on <br />o sist in the humane <br />iterly offering sufficient <br />which includes 505 <br />rise population, the <br />tortoises. <br />S,R3E,S1,2,11 & 12; Parcel <br />1000-0010-0000; 12 -1S -3E - <br />The Annex recipient site supports one of the finest"e pis the once common longleaf pine forests, <br />and is actively managed for recreation and nervation `frequent prescribed fire and open <br />canopy forest practices. The long-term g i the Avalon Annex site is to provide recreation <br />opportunities and quality habitat for wi li hkbitat on the Avalon Annex recipient site has soil <br />types that provide suitable gopher to 'se h N t the dominant vegetation consisting of longleaf <br />pine forests and native understory. These`tes . '1 a managed by staff from the Avalon Plantation <br />staff and Turner Endangered Sp 'es Fund. er tortoises that are translocated to the Annex <br />recipient site will be held in so -cele e e o es (Beltech fencing material) for 6 to 12 months, and <br />the fence integrity will be r I o or throughout the enclosure period. <br />Please direct all future.K6rreSRJn#nce regarding my support of gopher tortoise recovery efforts to <br />Mike Phillips, Exec 'rect Turner Endangered Species Fund (mike.phillips@retranches.com). <br />1123 RESEARCH DRIVE - BOZEMAN, MT 59718 - 406.556.8500 - TurnerEndangeredSpeciesFund.org <br />105 <br />