Environmental Assessment for the Amendments to the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Dunes Sagebrush Lizard CCA and CCAA

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has prepared this Environmental Assessment to evaluate the impacts of implemented proposed amendments to the existing Candidate Conservation Agreement and Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) and dunes sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.

Learn more about sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus). The proposed amendment to the Candidate Conservation Agreement and Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances would result in an All Activities enrollment option, remove barriers to increased participation in these Agreements, and result in greater conservation benefits for both species.