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16) Use low ground pressure equipment when practicable, particularly on equipment traveling over large portions of units with sensitive soils or site conditions. 17) Suspend skidding or yarding operations when soil moisture levels could result in unacceptable soil damage. 18) Perform skidding or yarding operations when soil conditions are such that soil compaction, displacement, and erosion would be minimized. 19) Avoid ground equipment operations on unstable, wet, or easily compacted soils and on steep slopes unless operation can be conducted without causing excessive rutting, soil puddling, or runoff of sediments directly into waterbodies. 20) Develop an erosion control and sediment plan that covers all disturbed areas including skid trails and roads, landings, cable corridors, temporary road fills, water source sites, borrow sites, or other areas disturbed during mechanical vegetation treatments. 21) Work with the contractor to locate landings, skid trails, and slash piles in suitable sites to avoid, minimize, or mitigate potential for erosion and sediment delivery to nearby waterbodies. 22) When skidding in wetlands with organic soils, concentrate skid trails to as small an area as possible, and minimize the number of trails on a given site. 23) To the greatest extent possible: forestry operations in wetlands which exhibit seasonal inundation or saturation should be limited to dry conditions only, and forestry operations in wetlands which are continually saturated or inundated should be limited to low-water conditions. 24) Minimize skidder and other heavy equipment operation in wetlands during wet conditions to avoid widespread excessive soil rutting. 25) Implement mechanical treatments on the contour of sloping ground to avoid or minimize water concentration and subsequent accelerated erosion. 26) Routinely inspect disturbed areas to verify that erosion and stormwater controls are implemented and functioning as designed and are suitably maintained. 27) Install suitable stormwater and erosion control measures to stabilize disturbed areas and waterways on incomplete projects before seasonal shutdown of operations or when severe storm or cumulative precipitation events that could result in sediment mobilization to waterbodies are expected. 28) Schedule all vegetation removal, trimming, and grading of vegetated areas outside of the peak bird breeding season to the maximum extent practicable. Use available resources, such as internet-based tools e.g., the FWS's Information, Planning and Conservation System, Avian Knowledge Network, or the county's existing biological profiles) to identify peak breeding months for local bird species; or contact local Service Migratory Bird Program Office for breeding bird information. When project activities cannot occur outside the bird nesting season, conduct surveys prior to scheduled activity to determine if active nests are present within the area of impact and buffer any nesting locations found during surveys. 29) Avoid prolonged heavy equipment operation (generally in excess of one day), except for prescribed burning and related activities, within 490 feet of active, known and visibly apparent kestrel nests from March through June. 30) For southeast American kestrels, leave standing snags where they do not pose a safety issue, as per the Silviculture BMP Manual as incorporated in Rule 51-6.002 F.A.C., and avoid damaging or felling known nest trees. 175