U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 20090210 Final vector digital data Final Designation Federal Register (50 CFR Part 17) Jackson, MS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service State of Florida (includes Georgia and South Carolina) http://www.fws.gov/ The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service final critical habitat designation for the Frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) and the Reticulated flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma bishopi). To designate critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 for the Frosted flatwoods salamander and the Reticulated flatwoods salamander. Both species of flatwoods salamanders are moderately sized salamanders that are generally black to chocolate- black with fine, irregular, light gray lines and specks that form a cross-banded pattern across their backs (back pattern more net-like in the reticulated flatwoods salamander). The frosted flatwoods salamander generally tends to be larger than the reticulated flatwoods salamander, as described above. Adults are terrestrial and live underground most of the year. They breed in relatively small, isolated ephemeral ponds where the larvae develop until metamorphosis. Post-metamorphic salamanders migrate out of the ponds and into the uplands where they live until they move back to ponds to breed as adults. Both species of flatwoods salamander are endemic to the lower southeastern Coastal Plain and occur in what were historically longleaf pine-wiregrass flatwoods and savannas. Critical habitat identifies specific areas that are essential to the conservation of a listed species, and that may require special management considerations or protection. Section 7(a)(2) of the Act requires that Federal agencies ensure that actions they fund, permit, or carry out are not likely to result in the destruction or adverse modification of critical habitat. The regulatory effect of the critical habitat designation does not extend beyond those activities funded, permitted, or carried out by Federal agencies. State or private actions, with no Federal involvement, are not affected. 20090210 publication date Complete As needed -87.165516 -79.401906 33.221889 29.853556 None Critical Habitat Final Designation Reticulated flatwoods salamander Flatwoods salamander Frosted flatwoods salamander Ambystoma cingulatum Ambystoma bishopi None Georgia Southeast United States Florida South Carolina None These data are final critical habitat units for the Frosted flatwoods salamander and the Reticulated flatwoods salamander. These data are to be used only in the context of the definition and purpose of critical habitat. This primarily relates to Section 7 consultation under the Endangered Species Act. These data may be used for planning and land management purposes. They are not to be used for legal survey use. NOTE: The legal boundaries are verbally described in the Federal Register. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Linda LaClaire Biologist physical

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Jackson MS 39213 601/321-1126 601/965-4340 linda_laclaire@fws.gov Telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 800-877-8339. Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.7.1.11595 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Department of Interior 50 CFR Part 17, Federal Register Vol. 73, No. 157 Final Designation February 10, 2009 Frosted Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum): http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/profile/speciesProfile.action?spcode=D013 Change in Status and Critical Habitat Designation for the Flatwoods Salamander: http://www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2009/r09-008.html GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within the original data. This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our knowledge. This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service vector digital data None 0 onLine USFWS Spatial and Attribute Information Points of known occurences of flatwoods salamander on public and private lands were buffered by 1500 ft (457 m) to create base from which unit boundaries were developed. As new point locations were obtained they were buffered and inserted into critical habitat unit layer using copy and paste functionality of ArcGIS. Polygon buffers within 2 miles of each other were joined to form a single polygon made up of multiple ponds. The buffers were overlayed on DOQQ where available and printed for boundary review. Proposed boundary changes were marked on map printouts and edits to boundary were made within the GIS to reflect these changes. Boundary changes reflected: removal of developed areas, removal of areas where the primary constituient elements (PCE) were missing, shift in buffer to better capture pond associated with point location, removal of buffer due to loss of habitat. Parcel layers were used as the snap layers for defining boundary changes because of habitat loss due to development. Boundary changes based on missing PCEs other than development were made by onscreen digitizing using DOQQs. The following fields were added to the layer: Unit_no, Unit_name, Cname, Sname, County, State, Status, Acres. Each unit was attributed accordingly. Acres were calculated for all units using XTools Pro functionality by projecting data into its corresponding UTM Zone in order to accurately calculate acres. Layer name changed to flsa_pch_081308 to reflect status and publication date. Layer name changed to flsa_fch_021009 to reflect status and publication date. unknown U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Paul A. Lang Ecologist/GIS Coordinator (850) 769-0552 x230 (850) 763-2177 paul_lang@fws.gov 7:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. GeoPlan received this data via email from linda_laclaire@fws.gov in June 2009. The data was received in shapefile format. When received the data was in GCS NAD83, the data was projected to Albers HPGN. -Upcased all records -Added Descript field based on CNAME field -Added FGDLAQDATE based on date GeoPlan acquired data from source -Rename from flsa_fch_021009.shp to flsa_ch_feb09.shp GeoPlan 20090616 Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. GeoPlan 20090702 Vector GT-polygon composed of chains 35 NAD 1983 HARN Florida GDL Albers 24.0 31.5 -84.0 24.0 400000.0 0.0 coordinate pair 0.0001 0.0001 meter D North American 1983 HARN GRS 1980 6378137.0 298.257222101 FLSA_CH_FEB09 FLSA_CH_FEB09.DBF USFWS OBJECTID Internal feature number. ESRI Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated. Shape Feature geometry. ESRI Coordinates defining the features. Unit_no Number of the unit USFWS Sname Scientific name of species USFWS County County in which unit resides USFWS State State in which unit resides USFWS Status Status of the critical habitat designation - Proposed or Final USFWS Acres GIS Generated Acres - XTools Pro 5.1 USFWS Unit_name Unit name USFWS Cname Common name of species USFWS DESCRIPT Field added by GeoPlan based on CNAME GeoPlan FGDLAQDATE Date GeoPlan acquired data from source GeoPlan AUTOID Unique ID added by GeoPlan GeoPlan SHAPE.AREA Area in meters GeoPlan SHAPE.LEN Perimeter in meters GeoPlan Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) mailing

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