Conservation Plans and Agreements

Habitat Conservation Plan

Data Definitions

Title Woodlands Group LLC

USFWS Region(s) 4

USFWS Field Office(s) Lafayette Ecological Services Field Office

Permits TE037661-0

Status I

NEPA Process environmental assessment

Involved Agency USFWS

Date Information

Date Noticed in Federal Register 06/28/2002

Date Permit Issued 07/24/2003

Date Application Withdrawn ---

Date Permit Expired ---

Date Permit Denied ---

Date Permit Suspended ---

Date Permit Revoked ---

Area Description Information

Location Springfield, Livingston Parish

Listed Species
Woodpecker, red-cockaded - (Picoides borealis) Entire E

Non-Listed Species No non-listed species

Habitat The Applicant's property is located in southeastern Livingston Parish, between Interstate Highway 12 and Lake Maurepas. The property is bordered on the east by the Tickfaw River and on the north by its tributary Lizard Creek, both of which flow southeastward to the lake. Marshlands border the property to the south, and small private in-holdings and agricultural lands occur to the west. The property was clear-cut in the late 1920's and left to regenerate naturally. Presently, 70 - 80 year-old loblolly pine dominate the overstory. A demographically isolated RCW population occupies the contiguous forested tract owned by the Applicant and an adjacent landowner and consists of seven RCW clusters (six active and one inactive). The Applicant's property is in a zone of prairie, stream, and marine terraces that were historically forested in longleaf, loblolly, and shortleaf pines, pine-hardwood mixes, and bottomland hardwoods. Suburban development is rapidly expanding in residential areas of both Livingston and St. Tammany Parishes, however, as city-dwellers emigrate from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Those parishes are the second- and third-fastest growing parishes in Louisiana as measured by percentage population growth, according to the March 18, 2000, Baton Rouge Advocate. The population of Livingston Parish is estimated to have increased by 29.3 percent from 1990 to 1999, and that of St. Tammany parish by 33.5 percent (U.S. Bureau of the Census 2000).

States
Louisiana

Size (Total Area Covered, by State)
971 acres (Louisiana)

Enrolled Size (Total Area Enrolled, by State) Data not available

Other Information

Applicant Type corporation

Land Use utility/infrastructure
forest management activities

Duration 4 years, 0 months
HCP specifies the duration to be 4 years from the date of issuance (effective 7/21/2003 to 7/31/2007). Prior to the permit expiration, the Applicant filed for a nine year extension. No additional incidental take was requested. The Incidental Take Permit extension was issued on 11/29/2007 (effective 11/30/2007 through 11/16/2016).

Plan/Agreement Documents No info

Federal Register Documents Availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment and Receipt of an Application for an Incidental Take Permit by Woodlands Group L.L.C. in Livingston Parish, LA (06/28/2002)

Habitat Conservation Plan

Data Definitions

Report generated on: May 24, 2013

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Title	Woodlands Group LLC
USFWS Region(s)	4
USFWS Field Office(s)	Lafayette Ecological Services Field Office
Permits	TE037661-0
Status	I
NEPA Process	environmental assessment
Involved Agency	USFWS
Date Information
Date Noticed in Federal Register	06/28/2002
Date Permit Issued	07/24/2003
Date Application Withdrawn	---
Date Permit Expired	---
Date Permit Denied	---
Date Permit Suspended	---
Date Permit Revoked	---
Area Description Information
Location	Springfield, Livingston Parish
Listed Species	Woodpecker, red-cockaded - (Picoides borealis) Entire E
Non-Listed Species	No non-listed species
Habitat	The Applicant's property is located in southeastern Livingston Parish, between Interstate Highway 12 and Lake Maurepas. The property is bordered on the east by the Tickfaw River and on the north by its tributary Lizard Creek, both of which flow southeastward to the lake. Marshlands border the property to the south, and small private in-holdings and agricultural lands occur to the west. The property was clear-cut in the late 1920's and left to regenerate naturally. Presently, 70 - 80 year-old loblolly pine dominate the overstory. A demographically isolated RCW population occupies the contiguous forested tract owned by the Applicant and an adjacent landowner and consists of seven RCW clusters (six active and one inactive). The Applicant's property is in a zone of prairie, stream, and marine terraces that were historically forested in longleaf, loblolly, and shortleaf pines, pine-hardwood mixes, and bottomland hardwoods. Suburban development is rapidly expanding in residential areas of both Livingston and St. Tammany Parishes, however, as city-dwellers emigrate from Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Those parishes are the second- and third-fastest growing parishes in Louisiana as measured by percentage population growth, according to the March 18, 2000, Baton Rouge Advocate. The population of Livingston Parish is estimated to have increased by 29.3 percent from 1990 to 1999, and that of St. Tammany parish by 33.5 percent (U.S. Bureau of the Census 2000).
States	Louisiana
Size (Total Area Covered, by State)	971 acres (Louisiana)
Enrolled Size (Total Area Enrolled, by State)	Data not available
Other Information
Applicant Type	corporation
Land Use	utility/infrastructure forest management activities
Duration	4 years, 0 months HCP specifies the duration to be 4 years from the date of issuance (effective 7/21/2003 to 7/31/2007). Prior to the permit expiration, the Applicant filed for a nine year extension. No additional incidental take was requested. The Incidental Take Permit extension was issued on 11/29/2007 (effective 11/30/2007 through 11/16/2016).
Plan/Agreement Documents	No info
Federal Register Documents	Availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment and Receipt of an Application for an Incidental Take Permit by Woodlands Group L.L.C. in Livingston Parish, LA (06/28/2002)