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Eastern Spadefoot Toad-Â A threatened species in Massachusetts
Examples of sample, site specific conditions we utilize.
Having an erosion control system and limiting disturbance (Limit of Work) are basic items.
Careful construction of horizontal landscape structures, creates passages and avoids barriers to amphibians and small animals.
Understanding Site Exclusion and Site Closure concepts are critical for compliance. Site exclusion requires a “Sweep” prior to fencing and Site “Closure” means just that: no heavy equipment in the area or adjacent to the site for the closure periods. If activity is necessary, a “sweep” will be required and most projects have a protocol in place.
Site management plans require specific designation site use and sequencing of pre-construction, demolition, construction and habitat restoration activity.
These two cover sheets identify areas detailed in the reports.
Indigenous vegetation buffer strips connect habitat.
Avoid replacement of vegetation with materials offering no habitat value, creating fragmentation of adjoining habitat.
Professional site management avoids poor planning decisions that can impact habitat and vegetation, displacing indigenous animals.
Uncontrolled erosion creates down slope impacts to habitat and vegetation, displacing indigenous animals. An excavation plan should designate storage areas and determine how much material needs to be kept on site for back fill.
Avoid unintentional displacement of wetlands habitat through traditional disposal practices.
Broom Crowberry is a colonizer of poor soil areas.
Diamondback Terrapins, a threatened species, use coastal sites for nesting.
Terrapin nests are recognized, marked and not disturbed. Many types of turtles exhibit consistent fidelity to the nesting site where they were born. We also notify our “Turtle Guy” who will dig a safe cage around the nest to avoid predation. We keep an eye on nests during the hatching season so the young can be released.
Diamondback Terrapins prefer sites where some bare Earth can be warmed by the sun to hatch eggs..
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