Intent of the Agreement and Comprehensive Strategy Sample Clauses

Intent of the Agreement and Comprehensive Strategy. The partners involved in the development of this Agreement defined an objective statement focused on collectively working towards the goal outlined previously. Together, the cooperating partners through the development of the CCAA for monarch butterfly conservation will strive to: Enhance and expand available monarch habitat by adopting appropriate conservation measures that promote sustainable breeding (milkweed) and foraging (nectar plants) habitat. Maintain a public-private partnership between the Service, transportation, and energy sector managers to facilitate voluntary conservation and communicate its benefits. Ensure regulatory certainty and maximize operational flexibility for ongoing rights-of-way and facilities management activities in the event of listing, or by precluding the need to list. To accomplish this, partners involved with the Agreement kept these objectives in mind as the comprehensive approach framework was developed and finalized. The intent of this Agreement is to promote conservation measures that reduce or remove key threats to the monarch on the lands Partners manage through proactive consideration and appropriate vegetation management practices. In doing so, this Agreement also seeks to create regulatory certainty for partners involved. By committing upfront to voluntary conservation for the species, the Agreement can provide energy and transportation land managers certainty that current maintenance and modernization practices, covered within this Agreement, can continue in the event the Service lists the monarch. Broad, non-traditional, conservation partnerships are needed to achieve the scale and long-term timeframe of habitat restoration needed to conserve the North American monarch populations. As described in the MAMCS (MAFWA 2018a), the consensus from the scientific community suggests that all sectors of land management can contribute to this conservation effort in an “All Hands on Deck” approach (Xxxxxxxxxx et al. 2017, MAFWA 2018a). This Agreement is intended to implement such an approach envisioned by these conservation initiatives. Through implementation, this Agreement embodies the intent of the “All Hands on Deck” technical paper, the MAMCS and its regional and state counterparts (in development), and UIC’s Rights-of-Way as Habitat Working Group. Development of this Agreement considered alternative approaches, such as submitting individual CCAA/CCA and permit requests, or formatting the Agreement as an umbrella CCAA...