The Kentucky Field Office has developed this Strategy to establish clear conservation objectives for each covered species, grounded in recovery plans, scientific literature, and the best available information. Projects that result in impacts to these species are required to implement mitigation proportional to those impacts. At a programmatic scale, the mitigation provided is expected to exceed what is necessary to offset project‑related effects, resulting in a net conservation benefit. Both conservation gains and impacts are quantified in acres and by habitat type (e.g., staging/swarming, maternity), reflecting the central role of forested habitat loss in driving adverse effects evaluated in this Biological Opinion.
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