2024-16243. Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Applications

Permit application No.	Applicant	Species	Location	Activity	Type of take	Permit action
ES117405-5	Tennessee Valley Authority; Knoxville, TN	Gray bat ( Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat ( Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared bat ( Myotis septentrionalis), tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus), and Virginia big-eared bat ( Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus)	Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia	Presence/probable absence surveys	Swabbing	Renewal and amendment.
ES14105A-3	Melissa Littrell; Lexington, KY	Tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia	Presence/probable absence surveys	Capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, radio tag, and release	Renewal and amendment.
ES237549-3	Cory Holliday; Gainesboro, TN	Tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Tennessee	Presence/probable absence surveys	Enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, collect hair samples, swab, band, radio tag, and release	Renewal and amendment.
ES171545-4	Ronald Redman; Benton, AR	Tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wyoming	Presence/probable absence surveys and white-nose syndrome research	Enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, radio tag, swab, and release	Renewal and amendment.
ES81492B-2	Biotope Forestry and Environmental, LLC; Sylva, NC	Tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming	Presence/probable absence surveys, habitat use and assessment research, population monitoring, and studies to evaluate potential impacts of white-nose syndrome or other potential threats	Capture with mist nets and harp traps, handle, identify, band, radio tag, and release	Amendment.
ES002507-7	Florida Forest Service, Withlacoochee Forestry Center; Brooksville, FL	Red-cockaded woodpecker ( Picoides borealis)	Florida	Population monitoring	Capture, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, translocate, and release	Renewal.
ES171518-2	Ouachita National Forest; Hot Springs, AR	Red-cockaded woodpecker ( Picoides borealis) and American burying beetle ( Nicrophorus americanus)	Alabama, Arkansas, Florida Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas	Population management and monitoring and presence/probable absence surveys	Red-cockaded woodpecker: capture, handle, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, translocate, and release; American burying beetle: live trap and release	Renewal and amendment.
ES12392A-4	The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies; Gulfport, MS	Green sea turtle ( Chelonia mydas), Kemp's ridley sea turtle ( Lepidochelys kempii), and loggerhead sea turtle ( Caretta caretta)	Mississippi	Scientific research	Attach satellite transmitters to turtles prior to release from rehabilitation facility	Amendment.
PER9860588-0	Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission; Bellefonte, PA	Clubshell ( Pleurobema clava), Northern riffleshell ( Epioblasma rangiana), rayed bean ( Villosa fabalis), salamander mussel ( Simpsonaias ambigua), sheepnose mussel ( Plethobasus cyphyus), and snuffbox mussel ( Epioblasma triquetra)	Pennsylvania	Captive propagation for reintroduction and research	Collect gravid females, remove glochidia, return females to the wild, retain glochidia in captivity to grow out for reintroduction and research	New.
PER10116282-0	Christopher Thigpen; Jonesboro, AR	Northern long-eared bat ( Myotis septentrionalis)	Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee	Presence/probable absence surveys	Capture with mist nets, handle, identify, band, radio tag, and release	New.
PER10115889-0	Sharna Tolfree; Columbia, SC	Red-cockaded woodpecker ( Picoides borealis)	Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia	Population management and monitoring and presence/probable absence surveys	Capture, handle, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities, translocate, and release	New.
PER10145221-0	Bonnie Porter; New Orleans, LA	Gray bat ( Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat ( Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared bat ( Myotis septentrionalis), and tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming	Presence/probable absence surveys	Capture with mist nets, handle, identify, band, radio tag, and release	New.
PER10145867-0	Mississippi State University; Biloxi, MS	Northern long-eared bat ( Myotis septentrionalis) and tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Mississippi	Presence/probable absence surveys and habitat-use monitoring	Capture with mist nets, handle, and release	New.
ES56588D-3	Martin Melville; Marietta, GA	Flattened musk turtle ( Sternotherus depressus), Black Warrior waterdog ( Necturus alabamensis), frecklebelly madtom ( Noturus munitus), sickle darter ( Percina williamsi), longsolid ( Fusconaia subrotunda), and round hickorynut ( Obovaria subrotunda)	Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia	Presence/probable absence surveys	Capture, handle, identify, and release	Amendment.
PER0030365-1	Gregory Myers; Wheeling, WV	Clubshell ( Pleurobema clava), fanshell ( Cyprogenia stegaria), fat pocketbook ( Potamilus capax), James spinymussel ( Parvaspina collina), longsolid ( Fusconaia subrotunda), northern riffleshell ( Epioblasma rangiana), pink mucket (pearlymussel) ( Lampsilis abrupta), purple cat's paw ( Epioblasma obliquata), rabbitsfoot ( Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica), rayed bean ( Villosa fabalis), round hickorynut ( Obovaria subrotunda), sheepnose ( Plethobasus cyphyus), snuffbox ( Epioblasma triquetra), spectaclecase ( Cumberlandia monodonta), white catspaw ( Epioblasma perobliqua), and white wartyback ( Plethobasus cicatricosus)	Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin	Presence/probable absence surveys	Capture, handle, identify, tag, and release	Amendment.
PER10878815-0	HGS Engineering, Inc; Anniston, AL	Red-cockaded woodpecker ( Picoides borealis)	Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina	Presence/probable absence surveys and population monitoring	Examine active cavities with a mirror and droplight or a video probe	New.
PER10877733-0	Nicholas Sharp; Somerville, AL	Gray bat ( Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat ( Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared bat ( Myotis septentrionalis), and tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming	Presence/probable absence surveys	Enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, radio tag, and release	New.
ES041314-7	U.S. Army, Fort Johnson; Fort Johnson, LA	Red-cockaded woodpecker ( Picoides borealis) and Louisiana pinesnake ( Pituophis ruthveni)	Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas	Population management and monitoring and screening for disease	Red-cockaded woodpecker: capture, band, translocate, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors; Louisiana pinesnake: capture, handle, measure, weigh, PIT tag, swab, remove radio transmitters, and collect blood, fecal, and shed skin samples	Renewal and amendment.
PER11091263-0	Garrett Hopper; Baton Rouge, LA	Fishes: Blue shiner ( Cyprinella caerulea), Cahaba shiner ( Notropis cahabae), goldline darter ( Percina aurolineata), pallid sturgeon ( Scaphirhynchus albus), and Alabama sturgeon ( Scaphirhynchus suttkusi); Mussels: Fanshell ( Cyprogenia stegaria), dromedary pearlymussel ( Dromus dromas), purple bankclimber ( Elliptoideus sloatianus),Cumberlandian combshell ( Epioblasma brevidens), oyster mussel ( Epioblasma capsaeformis), southern combshell ( Epioblasma penita), snuffbox ( Epioblasma triquetra), shiny pigtoe ( Fusconaia cor), finerayed pigtoe ( Fusconaia cuneolus), longsolid ( Fusconaia subrotunda), finelined pocketbook ( Hamiota altilis), orangenacre mucket ( Hamiota perovalis), shinyrayed pocketbook ( Hamiota subangulata), pink mucket ( Lampsilis abrupta), Alabama lampmussel ( Lampsilis virescens), Louisiana pearlshell ( Margaritifera hembeli), Alabama pearlshell ( Margaritifera marrianae), Alabama moccasinshell ( Medionidus acutissimus), Coosa moccasinshell ( Medionidus parvulus), ring pink ( Obovaria retusa), round hickorynut ( Obovaria subrotunda), southern clubshell ( Pleurobema decisum), southern pigtoe ( Pleurobema georgianum), ovate clubshell ( Pleurobema perovatum), fuzzy pigtoe ( Pleurobema strodeanum), slabside pearlymussel ( Pleuronaia dolabelloides), fat pocketbook ( Potamilus capax), inflated heelsplitter ( Potamilus inflatus), triangular kidneyshell ( Ptychobranchus greenii), southern kidneyshell ( Ptychobranchus jonesi), rabbitsfoot ( Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica), and pale lilliput ( Toxolasma cylindrellus)	Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee	Presence/probable absence surveys	Capture, handle, and release	New.
ES810274-15	Peter Droppelman; Louisville, KY	Mammals: Tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus); Mussels: Longsolid ( Fusconaia subrotunda), green floater ( Lasmigona subviridis), Cumberland moccasinshell ( Medionidus conradicus), round hickorynut ( Obovaria subrotunda), Tennessee clubshell ( Pleurobema oviforme), Tennessee pigtoe ( Pleuronaia barnesiana), and salamander mussel ( Simpsonaias ambigua)	Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming	Presence/probable absence surveys	Tricolored bat: capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, radio tag, and release; Mussels: capture, identify, mark, release, collect relic shells	Amendment.
PER11108599-0	Julie Weckworth, University of Montana; Missoula, MT	Tricolored bat ( Perimyotis subflavus)	Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin	Scientific research	Capture with harp trap, mist net, or hand-held hoop net, handle, identify, wing punch, swab, PIT tag, and release	New.