Incidental Take Notice For Grant County | Wisconsin DNR

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Division of Pure Assets (DNR) proposes to situation a allow for the incidental taking of a uncommon frog, which can consequence from the Grant River Sand Pit.

Incidental take refers back to the unintentional lack of particular person endangered or threatened animals or crops that doesn’t put the species’ total inhabitants in danger.

BARD Supplies, the applicant enterprise managing the mission, proposes to increase a sand pit to supply mineral merchandise to be used in each the development and agricultural trade. Future mining will happen as a progressive enlargement that can restrict the disturbed areas to lower than 1 acre per 12 months and incorporate reclamation of mined areas. 

The presence of the state endangered Blanchard’s cricket frog is confirmed within the neighborhood of the mission web site. DNR employees decided that the proposed mission might consequence within the incidental taking of some frogs.

The DNR concludes that the proposed mission shouldn’t be more likely to appreciably scale back the probability of the survival or restoration of the species inside the state, the entire plant-animal neighborhood of which it is part of or the habitat that’s vital to its existence.

Conservation measures to attenuate the antagonistic impact on the endangered species can be included into the proposed Incidental Take Allow. Copies of the jeopardy evaluation and background info on the Blanchard’s cricket frog can be found by visiting the DNR Incidental Take Public Notices webpage or upon request from DNR Conservation Biologist Rori Paloski at 608-516-3742 or Rori.Paloski@wisconsin.gov.

The general public is inspired to submit written feedback relating to project-related impacts to the Blanchard’s cricket frog by April 10, 2023 to:

Division of Pure Assets
c/o Rori Paloski, DNR Conservation Biologist
101 S. Webster St. Madison, WI 53707
Rori.Paloski@wisconsin.gov or 608-516-3742