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Custom Data Request ID/Name: TTG_Forestry_12_2024

Organization/Individual Requesting Data: Stanley Cook, Sustainability Manager, with TTG Forestry is requesting a one-year license agreement to access NatureServe’s documented locations of critically imperiled, imperiled, or vulnerable species and natural communities. TTG Forestry is an independent subsidiary of BTG Pactual.  NatureServe will provide data within the following states: AL, AR, KY, LA, MS, NC, NY, OH, OR, SC, TN, TV, TX, VA, WA, and WV.  

They provide customizable forest management solutions and are headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the third time we have provided precise EO data to TTG. The scope has changed in the following ways: 

1. TTG is not requesting data from FL this time. 
2. Requesting data from additional states: AR, WV. 
3. One added data user group: Kingwood Forestry. 

Taxonomic Scope:    

The Licensed Dataset will include species and natural communities with: 

1. A federal status. 
2. State protection status. 
3. GRank of G1/T1, G2/T2, or G3/T3 (critically imperiled, imperiled, or vulnerable throughout its range. 
4. Srank of S1, S2, or S3 (critically imperiled, imperiled, or vulnerable in the state it occurs). 

Geographic Scope:   

Data will be limited to a footprint (shown below as TTG Tracts) provided by TTG Forestry that includes data from portions of the following states: AL, AR, KY, LA, MS, NC, NY, OH, OR, SC, TN, TV, TX, VA, WA, and WV.    

Mode and Date of Delivery:   

The Licensed Data was provided to TTG Forestry in a password protected file geodatabase.  The data delivery is expected in late December 2024.  

Data Users: 

There are six third party service providers (listed below) that are contracted directly by TTG to provide forest management services. Up to 50 individuals will be permitted to access the Licensed Dataset including staff organizations listed below. The six subcontractors listed below will access the Licensed Dataset via TTG’s Land Resource Management system “LRM”.  The data will only be used to screen for potential conflicts with threatened and endangered species and other sensitive species and habitats that they may encounter while managing the timberland, and for other activities related to meeting sustainable forestry management practices. 

Purpose of Request:    

Under the License Agreement with NatureServe, TTG Forestry will be used to meet sustainable forestry requirements. This includes providing notification to landowners that imperiled species are, or potentially are, occurring on their lands so that sustainable forestry practices can be implemented to protect imperiled and at-risk species and habitats.