MN-WI DKey Standing Analysis-1-17-2023.pdf

This standing analysis supports the “Minnesota-Wisconsin Endangered Species Determination Key” (Dkey) delivered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service)’s Information for Planning and Consultation ( IPaC IPaC
Information for Planning and Consultation (IPaC) is a project planning tool that streamlines the USFWS environmental review process

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) system. The Service’s Minnesota-Wisconsin Ecological Services Field Office (MNWIFO) developed this DKey to streamline the process of reviewing certain routine and predictable projects that are not likely to result in adverse effects (or take) of Federally threatened, endangered, candidate, and proposed species in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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We are the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office responsible for the following activities in Minnesota and Wisconsin: administering the Endangered Species Act; identifying sources of environmental contamination, assessing impacts of contaminants to fish and wildlife resources and helping to restore...
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The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...