Programmatic Formal Consultation on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Vemal Pool Conservation Strategy for Jackson County, Oregon

This Biological Opinion (Opinion) is developed pursuant to section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S. C. 1531 et seq.)(Act) in response to requests for IntraService consultation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (Service) Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office's (OFWO) Roseburg Field Office and for interagency consultation from the U.S Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). These requests for consultation focus on activities of the agencies related to conservation and development within vernal pool habitat near Jackson County, Oregon and the impacts of these activities on vernal pool complex (VPC) species listed under the Act, specifically: vernal pool fairy shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi (fairy shrimp or VPFS)); Cook's Lomatium (Lomatium cookii (Lomatium)); and large-flowered woolly meadowfoam (Limnanthes .flocossa ssp. grandiflora) (meadowfoam)). Collectively, these species are referred to as the listed vernal pool species.