Beruflich Dokumente
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Oil and
and Gas
Gas Development
Development
Guidelines
Guidelines
Conserving
Conserving New
New Mexicos
Mexicos
Wildlife
Wildlife Habitat
Habitat and
and Wildlife
Wildlife
New
New Mexico
Mexico Department
Department of
of Game
Game and
and Fish
Fish
Mark Gruber
Editor
August, 2007
T
he purpose of this publication is to provide a set of guidelines that are broadly
useful to guide oil and gas development statewide. It is intended for the information and
discretionary use of regulatory agencies and concerned citizens as well as industry. Oil and
gas development can have negative impacts on native wildlife and habitat, primarily through
fragmentation and degradation of habitat. These guidelines are intended to promote attention
to conserving wildlife and habitat while continuing to develop energy resources.
Various combinations of land and mineral ownership, lease status, and land use present
different possibilities and constraints for conservation planning. The recommendations
are intended to be site and situation specific, implemented where they will be effective and
technically and economically feasible. Numbers in parentheses refer to documents listed
in Appendix E, References. Most of the documents are available online; URL addresses are
provided for readers seeking additional detail on specific topics.
Targeted mitigation has the potential to conserve and restore wildlife and habitat.
However, recommendations alone, no matter how sensible, will not benefit wildlife resources
on the ground if there is insufficient commitment to implement such practices. We encourage
industry to recognize and proactively plan and fund the full direct and administrative cost
of developing, producing, abandoning, and reclaiming facilities that disrupt wildlife habitats
and movements. Further, we will strive for cooperative endeavors to work with industry
to most efficiently and cost effectively implement the practices described herein. Such
cooperative actions will promote incentives to treat the land with regard for its natural values
and will encourage realistic efforts to monitor implementation and effectiveness of mitigation
measures.
Otero Mesa: Oil and gas reserves underlie relatively undisturbed wildlife habitat and coexisting rangeland
with vast supplies of underground fresh water
Oil and gas development roads can cause significant habitat loss and fragmentation
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Swainsons hawk
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Common Name
Birds
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
Aplomado Falcon
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Montezuma Quail
Scaled Quail
Sandhill Crane
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Burrowing Owl
Loggerhead Shrike
Gray Vireo
Sage Thrasher
Bendires Thrasher
Spragues Pipit
Botteris Sparrow
Bairds Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Varied Bunting
Hooded Oriole
Mammals
Mexican Long-Tongued Bat
Lesser Long-Nosed Bat
Arizona Myotis Bat
Pocketed Free-Tailed Bat
White-sided Jack Rabbit
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Northern Pygmy Mouse
Yellow-Nosed Cotton Rat
Mexican Gray Wolf
Swift Fox
Mule Deer
Coues White-Tailed Deer
Desert Bighorn Sheep
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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Common Name
Amphibians
Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad
Tiger Salamander
Reptiles
Ornate Box Turtle
Collared Lizard
Sand Dune Lizard
Bunch Grass Lizard
Texas Banded Gecko
Gray-Checkered Whiptail
Gray-Banded Kingsnake
Milk Snake
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Desert Massasauga
Molluscs
New Mexico Ramshorn Snail
Three-Toothed Column Snail
Distorted Metastoma Snail
Whitewashed Radabotus Snail
Woodlandsnail
Organ Mountain Talussnail
Franklin Mountain Talussnail
Dona Ana Talussnail
San Luis Mountains Talussnail
Northern Treeband Snail
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Intermountain Basins
Big Sagebrush Shrubland
Birds
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
Scaled Quail
Mourning Dove
Loggerhead Shrike
Sage Thrasher
Bendires Thrasher
Sage Sparrow
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Mammals
Arizona Myotis Bat
White-Tailed Jack Rabbit
Gunnisons Prairie Dog
Black Bear
Mule Deer
X
X
X
X
X
Reptiles
Collared Lizard
California Kingsnake
X
X
Sagebrush shrubland
Common Name
Birds
Bald Eagle
Golden Eagle
Scaled Quail
Sandhill Crane
Mountain Plover
Long-Billed Curlew
Wilsons Phalarope
Spragues Pipit
Bairds Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Common Name
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Birds continued
Ferruginous Hawk
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Mourning Dove
Burrowing Owl
Loggerhead Shrike
Mammals
Least Shrew
Arizona Myotis Bat
Prairie Vole
Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Swift Fox
Mule Deer
Amphibians
Western Chorus Frog
Plains Leopard Frog
Tiger Salamander
Reptiles
Ornate Box Turtle
Collared Lizard
Sand Dune Lizard
Milk Snake
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Desert Massasauga
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Ephemeral Habitats
1st and 2nd
Order
Stream
Birds
American Bittern
Common Black-Hawk
X
Sandhill Crane
Northern Pintail
X
Bald Eagle
X
Peregrine Falcon
Southwestern Willow Flycatcher
Eared Grebe
X
Northern Harrier
White-Faced Ibis
X
Wilsons Phalarope
X
Interior Least Tern
X
Mammals
Allens Big-Eared Bat
Pocketed Free-Tailed Bat
Western Red Bat
Spotted Bat
NM Meadow Jumping Mouse
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Prairie Vole
Marsh/
Cienega
Man-made
Catchments
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X
X
X
X
X
Natural
Catchments
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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X
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X
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Amphibian
Western Chorus Frog
X
Chiricahua Leopard Frog
X
Lowland Leopard Frog
Northern Leopard Frog
X
Plains Leopard Frog
X
Rio Grande Leopard Frog
X
Tiger Salamander
X
Arizona Toad
Colorado River Toad
Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad
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X
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X
X
X
X
Ephemeral Habitats
1st and 2nd
Order
Stream
Marsh/
Cienega
Man-made
Catchments
Natural
Catchments
X
X
X
Ephemeral Tank
Riparian Habitat
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For complete up-dated information on federal-listed species, including plants, see the US Fish & Wildlife
Service NM Ecological Services Field Office web site at http://www.fws.gov/ifw2es/NewMexico/SBC.cfm/. For
information on state-listed plants, contact the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department,
Division of Forestry, or go to http://nmrareplants.unm.edu/. If your project is on Bureau of Land Management,
contact the local BLM Field Office for information on species of particular concern. If your project is on a
National Forest, contact the Forest Supervisors office for species information.
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Scientific Name
NMDGF
Red Fox
Vulpes vulpes
Ringtail
Bassariscus astutus
American Marten
Martes americana origenes
Black-footed Ferret
Mustela nigripes
Western Spotted Skunk
Spilogale gracilis
Goat Peak Pika
Ochotona princeps nigrescens
White-tailed Jack Rabbit
Lepus townsendii campanius
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Marmota flaviventris
Gunnisons Prairie Dog
Cynomys gunnisoni
Heather Vole
Phenacomys intermedius intermedius
New Mexican Jumping Mouse
Zapus hudsonius luteus
Western Small-footed Myotis Bat Myotis ciliolabrum melanorhinus
Yuma Myotis Bat
Myotis yumanensis yumanensis
Little Brown Myotis Bat
Myotis lucifugus carissima
Occult Little Brown Myotis Bat
Myotis lucifugus occultus
Long-legged Myotis Bat
Myotis volans interior
Fringed Myotis Bat
Myotis thysanodes thysanodes
Long-eared Myotis Bat
Myotis evotis evotis
Spotted Bat
Euderma maculatum
Pale Townsends Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens
Big Free-tailed Bat
Nyctinomops macrotis
Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis
Neotropic Cormorant
Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Northern Goshawk
Accipiter gentilis
Common Black-Hawk
Buteogallus anthracinus
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinus
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Lagopus leucurus
Mountain Plover
Charadrius montanus
Least Tern
Sterna antillarum
Black Tern
Chlidonias niger surinamensis
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
Mexican Spotted Owl
Strix occidentalis lucida
Boreal Owl
Aegolius funereus
Burrowing Owl
Athene cunicularia
s = sensitive
T = Threatened
E = Endangered
s
s
T
E
s
s
s
s
s
s
E
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
T
s
s
E
T
T
s
T
T
E
s
E
s
s
T
USFWS
Critical Habitat
SOC
SOC
SOC
T
SOC
SOC
SOC
SOC
E
SOC
C
T
SOC
C = Candidate Y = Yes
Black Swift
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Costas Hummingbird
Southwestern Willow Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Gray Vireo
Bairds Sparrow
Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout
Rio Grande Chub
Roundtail Chub
Colorado Pikeminnow
Zuni Bluehead Sucker
Razorback Sucker
Jemez Mountains Salamander
Western Boreal Toad
Southwestern Fence Lizard
Socorro Mountainsnail
Scientific Name
NMGF
Cypseloides niger
Cynanthus latirostris
Calypte costae
Empidonax traillii extimus
Lanius ludovicianus
Vireo vicinior
Ammodramus bairdii
Oncorhynchus clarki
Gila pandora
Gila robusta
Ptychocheilus lucius
Catostomus discobolus yarrowi
Xyrauchen texanus
Plethodon neomexicanus
Bufo boreas boreas
Sceloporus cowlesi
Oreohelix neomexicana
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T
T
E
s
T
T
s
s
E
E
E
s
E
E
s
s
Scientific Name
s = sensitive
T = Threatened
E = Endangered
Critical Habitat
SOC
SOC
SOC
E
C
E
SOC
SOC
NMDGF
USFWS
s
s
s
s
E
s
s
s
T
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
USFWS
Y
Y
Critical Habitat
SOC
SOC
SOC
SOC
SOC
C = Candidate Y = Yes
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Scientific Name
NMDGF
USFWS
T
s
T
E
T
s
T
s
E
T
SOC
SOC
Exp
SOC
C
T
SOC
E
SOC
Bald Eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Northern Goshawk
Accipiter gentilis
Common Black-Hawk
Buteogallus anthracinus
Aplomado Falcon
Falco femoralis
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinus
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus
Piping Plover
Charadrius melodus circumcinctus
Mountain Plover
Charadrius montanus
Least Tern
Sterna antillarum
Black Tern
Chlidonias niger surinamensis
Common Ground-Dove
Columbina passerina
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Coccyzus americanus
Mexican Spotted Owl
Strix occidentalis lucida
Burrowing Owl
Athene cunicularia
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Cynanthus latirostris
Lucifer Hummingbird
Calothorax lucifer
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Camptostoma imberbe
Southwestern Willow Flycatcher
Empidonax traillii extimus
Thick-billed Kingbird
Tyrannus crassirostris
Loggerhead Shrike
Lanius ludovicianus
Bells Vireo
Vireo bellii
Gray Vireo
Vireo vicinior
Bairds Sparrow
Ammodramus bairdii
Varied Bunting
Passerina versicolor
Brown Pelican
Pelecanus occidentalis
Neotropic Cormorant
Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Mexican Tetra
Astyanax mexicanus
Rio Grande Chub
Gila pandora
Rio Grande Shiner
Notropis jemezanus
Pecos Bluntnose Shiner
Notropis simus pecosensis
Suckermouth Minnow
Phenacobius mirabilis
Blue Sucker
Cycleptus elongatus
Gray Redhorse
Moxostoma congestum
Headwater Catfish
Ictalurus lupus
Pecos Pupfish
Cyprinodon pecosensis
Pecos Gambusia
Gambusia nobilis
Greenthroat Darter
Etheostoma lepidum
Bigscale Logperch
Percina macrolepida (Native pop.)
Western River Cooter
Pseudemys gorzugi
Sand Dune Lizard
Sceloporus arenicolus
Gray-banded Kingsnake
Lampropeltis alterna
Blotched Water Snake
Nerodia erythrogaster transversa
Arid Land Ribbon Snake
Thamnophis proximus diabolicus
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s = sensitive
T = Threatened
E = Endangered
E
s
s
T
T
E
E
E
s
T
T
T
T
E
T
T
s
s
E
T
E
T
s
T
E
T
T
T
E
E
E
T
Critical Habitat
SOC
T
SOC
SOC
SOC
SOC
T
SOC
SOC
SOC
SOC
E
SOC
C
C = Candidate Y = Yes
T = Threatened
Scientific Name
NMDGF
T
E
T
E
E
E
T
E
E = Endangered
USFWS
Critical Habitat
C
SOC
E
E
E
SOC
E
SOC
C = Candidate Y = Yes
Loggerhead Shrike
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