Lark personnel's years of industry service collaboration with oil and gas companies includes the development of a Programmatic Biological Assessment Biological Evaluation (BABE) and an amendment to the BABE for oil and gas exploration and development across approximately 1 million acres.
Following the completion of the Programmatic BABE and BABE Amendment in 2017, the oil and gas operators contracted Lark personnel, in coordination with a partnering Native American-owned business, to complete another amendment (currently in progress). These assessments required documentation and the review of findings for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management regarding possible effects of the anticipated oil and gas development on species listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened, endangered, proposed, or candidate species and assessed impacts to species protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940. Multiple spatial analyses of the existing species’ habitat (endangered, proposed, and candidate species) were conducted to provide support to potential impacts.
