{"id":1097,"date":"2014-07-29T19:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2014-07-29T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:39:12","slug":"usfws-scoping-re-30-year-eagle-non-purposeful-take-on-wind-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/usfws-scoping-re-30-year-eagle-non-purposeful-take-on-wind-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"USFWS Scoping re 30-year eagle &#8220;non-purposeful&#8221; take on wind farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a public comment period for its review of how permits are issued for &#8220;non-purposeful take&#8221; (wounding, mortality, etc.) of bald and golden eagles. \u00a0Under its current regs, the Service may issue programmatic permits authorizing &#8220;lethal take that is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, such as mortalities caused by\u00a0 collisions with rotating wind turbines.&#8221; \u00a0Last December the Service finalized its rule that extended the maximum permit period for nonpurposeful take from 5 years to 30 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its explanation for such increase from 5 to 30 years was: &#8220;This change is intended to facilitate the responsible development of projects that will be in operation for may decades and bring them into compliance with statutory mandates protecting eagles. The longer term permits will incorporate conditions that provide for adaptive management&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fish and Wildlife Service will host 5 public meetings on their proposal and will take public comment at that time. \u00a0The Denver meeting will be held on Thursday, July 31 from 5:00-8:00 pm\u00a0at the Holiday Inn Denver Airport 6900 Tower Road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, please submit written comment to the Fish and Wildlife\u00a0Service by September 22 (end of the public comment period).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/take-action\/\">the link\u00a0<\/a>to our Take Action request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a public comment period for its review of how permits are issued for &#8220;non-purposeful take&#8221; (wounding, mortality, etc.) of bald and golden eagles. \u00a0Under its current regs, the Service may issue programmatic permits authorizing &#8220;lethal take that is incidental to an otherwise lawful activity, such as mortalities &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}