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A TRUE COPY <br />CERTIFICATION ON LAST PAGE <br />RYAN L. BUTLER, CLERK <br />s. Work with the contractor to locate landings, skid trails, and slash piles in suitable sites to avoid, <br />minimize, or mitigate potential for erosion and sediment delivery to nearby waterbodies. Source <br />of condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />I. Develop an erosion control and sediment plan that covers all disturbed areas including skid trails <br />and roads, landings, cable corridors, temporary road fills, water source sites, borrow sites, or other <br />areas disturbed during mechanical vegetation treatments. Source of condition: NEPA <br />Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />u. Avoid ground equipment operations on unstable, wet, or easily compacted soils and on steep <br />slopes unless operation can be conducted without causing excessive rutting, soil puddling, or <br />runoff of sediments directly into waterbodies. Source of condition: NEPA Determination, <br />Monitoring Required: No <br />v. Install suitable stormwater and erosion control measures to stabilize disturbed areas and <br />waterways on incomplete projects before seasonal shutdown of operations or when severe storm <br />or cumulative precipitation events that could result in sediment mobilization to waterbodies are <br />expected. Source of condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />w. Routinely inspect disturbed areas to verify that erosion and stormwater controls are implemented <br />and functioning as designed and are suitably maintained. Source of condition: NEPA <br />Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />x. Implement mechanical treatments on the contour of sloping ground to avoid or minimize water <br />concentration and subsequent accelerated erosion. Source of condition: NEPA Determination, <br />Monitoring Required: No <br />y. Minimize skidder and other heavy equipment operation in wetlands during wet conditions to avoid <br />widespread excessive soil rutting. Source of condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring <br />Required: No <br />z. To the greatest extent possible: forestry operations in wetlands which exhibit seasonal inundation <br />or saturation should be limited to dry conditions only, and forestry operations in wetlands which <br />are continually saturated or inundated should be limited to low-water conditions. Source of <br />condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />aa. When skidding in wetlands with organic soils, concentrate skid trails to as small an area as <br />possible, and minimize the number of trails on a given site. Source of condition: NEPA <br />Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />bb. Maintain habitat features by carrying out activity on forest lands, such as harvesting (including <br />thinning), site preparation, burning, etc. Source of condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring <br />Required: No <br />cc. Locate concentrated heavy equipment operations (e.g. log decks, landings, main skid trails, ramps, <br />etc.) away from known and visibly apparent active burrows, and especially known concentrations <br />of active burrows. If concentrated heavy equipment operations must be located in such areas: a) <br />identify and mark burrows, b) avoid damage to the burrow opening, and c) avoid damage to the <br />gopher tortoise burrow apron during the nesting season (May through September). Source of <br />condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />dd. Advise heavy equipment operators to avoid direct contact year-round with all known and visibly <br />apparent gopher tortoises and burrowing owls, as well as known and visibly apparent burrow <br />aprons for tortoises during the period between May and September. Source of condition: NEPA <br />Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />ee. When practical, minimize the use of heavy equipment during September and October when gopher <br />tortoise hatchlings are more numerous and less visible due to their size during this time. Source <br />of condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring Required: No <br />ff. Avoid heavy equipment operation (except for prescribed burning and related activities) within 330 <br />feet of active, known and visibly apparent Little Blue and Tricolored Heron rookeries (two or more <br />nests) from February through May. Source of condition: NEPA Determination, Monitoring <br />Required: No <br />