Environmental Compliance 



• Officials at the Hector International Airport in Fargo, ND, 

 contacted ADC for help with removing white-tailed deer from 

 a secured area on airport property. The number of incidents 

 of deer on the runways at the airport had been steadily 

 increasing, and there was fear of a deer-aircraft collision. 

 ADC specialists removed seven deer and airport officials 

 then donated the deer to "Hunters for the Hungry," an 

 organization that provides meat to food charities. 



• Bird-aircraft strikes at Dulles International and National 

 airports in the Washington, DC, area involving Canada 

 geese prompted airport officials to seek ADC assistance 

 after an intensive harassment program failed to reduce the 

 hazard. With assistance from the Virginia Department of 

 Agriculture, ADC captured 318 resident geese from Dulles 

 and National during the birds' flightless summer molt period. 

 A number of the geese were relocated to the Tidewater 

 region of Virginia, and the remainder were donated to 

 charitable organizations for use as food. 



In March 1995, the Acting APHIS Administrator signed the 

 record of decision for ADC's program's final environmental 

 impact statement (EIS). In the decision, it was determined 

 that aspects of most of the alternatives analyzed in the final 

 EIS are currently being used in specific situations across the 

 United States. Because the EIS is programmatic in nature 

 and national in scope, a single alternative as the sole, all- 

 encompassing focus of the ADC program may not 

 adequately cover all wildlife damage problems and 

 situations. Therefore, the decision was made to send 

 forward to regional and local ADC decisionmakers the viable 

 alternatives discussed in the final EIS for consideration as 

 management approaches, when appropriate, practical, and 

 reasonable, in preparation of local and site-specific 

 documents and actions. This decision will provide a 

 complete range of wildlife damage control strategies 

 available as part of an overall integrated management 

 approach. 



During the year, memoranda of understanding with the U.S. 

 Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land fvlanagement 

 and USDA's Forest Service were completed acknowledging 

 ADC's lead responsibility for NEPA compliance for predator 

 management actions on Federal lands managed by those 

 agencies. 



ADC also completed and signed records of decision for 

 activities on the Lincoln, Apache-Sitgreaves, Lewis and 

 Clark, Challis, Big Horn, Sawtooth, and Wallowa-Whitman 

 National Forests in the Western United States. 



In May 1995, ADC hired three environmental coordinators 

 stationed at the Albuquerque, NM, Portland, OR, and 

 Billings, MT, State ADC offices. These individuals will be 

 under the supervisory responsibility of the ADC 

 environmental manager, who was transferred to the Western 

 Regional Office in Lakewood, CO, a month earlier. Each 

 new environmental coordinator will be responsible for six 

 States in the Western Region. 



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