PROGRAMMATIC SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENT WITH CRAIG BLENCOWE AND CHRISTOPHER BLENCOWE FOR NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL, MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

This Safe Harbor Agreement (Agreement) is entered into as of the day XXXX, XX, 2022, between Registered Professional Foresters (RPFs) Craig Blencowe and Christopher Blencowe (Permittee), and the United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (Service); hereinafter collectively called the “Parties.” The purposes of this Agreement includes the following: 1) serves as a programmatic agreement under which individual landowners (Landowners) whose timberlands are managed by the aforementioned RPFs will be enrolled through Cooperative Agreements and Certificates of Inclusion; 2) enhance and improve habitat functionality for the federally and State-listed northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina; NSO) on the Enrolled Properties; and 3) provide certain regulatory assurances to the Permittees conducting timber harvesting activities and the Landowners as they apply the habitat conservation measures described in this document.