Attachment_6-_Wildlife_Regulations.pdf
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This is a Wildlife Regulations document for Grand Teton National Park that establishes mandatory environmental compliance requirements for all project activities and personnel.
The document outlines three primary regulatory areas: Fish and Wildlife, Amphibians, and Birds. For Fish and Wildlife operations, all staff—including National Park Service employees, Volunteers-in-Parks, and contractors—must comply with food storage and bear country best management practices. Bear attractants including food, drinks, garbage, cooking equipment, coolers, storage containers, pet food, and odorous toiletries must be continuously attended or secured in buildings, bear-resistant lockers, locked vehicles, or IGBC-approved portable canisters. All human-bear conflicts must be reported immediately to Teton Interagency Dispatch Center (307-739-3301), and bear sightings must be reported to the park's Bear Management Office within 24 hours. Toxic materials including petroleum products must be stored inaccessibly to bears, and all food debris and construction waste must be disposed of in separate bearproof dumpsters. Wildlife-vehicle collisions must be reported to dispatch as soon as possible. For Amphibians, care must be taken to avoid disturbing nesting, hibernating, or estivating wildlife species at worksites. For Birds, all activities must comply with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and Executive Order 13186, making it illegal to "take" migratory birds, their eggs, feathers, or nests through pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing, or collecting—with the Act applying equally to intentional and unintentional take. Bald and golden eagles receive additional protections under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940, which prohibits disturbance as well as take, and all activities must comply with seasonal closure regulations for raptors, trumpeter swans, great blue herons, and other sensitive bird species.
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Wildlife Regulations
Grand Teton National Park
Fish and Wildlife
All project activities must comply regulations related to food storage and park recommended best management practices for living and working in bear country. Bear “attractants” include food, drinks, garbage, cooking utensils, dirty / soiled pots/pans/plates, stoves, grills (charcoal or gas), empty or full coolers, storage containers with food or previously holding food (except approved bear resistant canisters), beverage containers, pet food/bowls, and any odorous item that may attract a bear such as toiletries.
At all times in all locations, including the backcountry, all staff (NPS, Volunteers-in-Parks (VIPs), contractors, etc.) must ensure that all bear attractants are attended at all times. All unattended attractants must be stored securely inside a building, a bear resistant food storage locker (if available), in a hard sided vehicle with doors locked and windows closed, or in an Interagency
Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC) approved portable bear resistant food storage canisters; or disposed of properly in a bear-resistant garbage receptacle. Backpacks and/or daypacks containing unsecured attractants (i.e. not in a canister) must not be left unattended.
All human-bear conflicts must be reported to Teton Interagency Dispatch Center immediately
(307-739-3301). All bear sightings must be reported to the park’s Bear Management Office within 24 hours.
Provide for proper storage and disposal of materials that may be toxic to bears. All potentially toxic attractants, including petroleum products, must be stored or disposed of in such a way that they are not available to bears.
All food and attractant debris must be disposed of in bearproof dumpsters that can be closed at night. Construction debris is to be disposed of separately in dumpsters available for this purpose.
All wildlife-vehicle collisions must be reported to Teton Interagency Dispatch (307-739-3301) as soon as possible.
Amphibians
Care will be taken not to disturb any wildlife species (amphibians, reptiles, migratory birds, mammals, raptors, or bats) found nesting, hibernating, estivating (in an inactive dormant state during hot, dry periods), or otherwise living in, or immediately nearby, worksites.
Birds
All project activities must comply with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA; 16 U.S.C.
703) and Executive Oder 13186. Under the MBTA, it is illegal to "take" migratory birds, their eggs, feathers or nests. “Take” is defined (50 CFR 10.12) to include “pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing, or collecting.” The MBTA does not distinguish between
“intentional” and “unintentional” take. Migratory birds include songbirds, waterfowl, shorebirds, and raptors. All project activities must also comply seasonal closure regulations for raptors, trumpeter swans, great blue herons, and other sensitive bird species.
Eagles are specifically protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940 (16
U.S.C. 668-668c) and the MBTA. Project activities must not lead to the take of bald or golden eagles. The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act defines “take” to include disturbing birds.
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