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Montana DNRC Forested State Trust Lands
Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP)
HCP Purpose
The HCP would provide DNRC reasonable assurances for long term compliance with the ESA while continuing to conduct forest management activities on state trust lands. The HCP demonstrates how DNRC would avoid, minimize, or mitigate impacts to the HCP species resulting from HCP covered forest management activities that DNRC conducts while managing state trust lands. The HCP would provide a significant contribution to the conservation of HCP species and would allow for, or not preclude, the recovery of listed HCP species. If unlisted HCP species (westslope cutthroat trout and Columbia redband trout) become listed during the term of the Permit, the HCP conservation measures would be sufficient and provide adequate protection under the ESA. The Permit would thus provide long-term regulatory certainty for DNRC.
