Wildfire Hazard Reduction and Resource Management Plan [California Endangered Species Act (CESA) Incidental Take Permit No. 2081-2011-046-03 (ITP)]

Wildfire Hazard Reduction and Resource Management Plan [California Endangered Species Act (CESA) Incidental Take Permit No. 2081-2011-046-03 (ITP)]

Project involves reducing fuel loads using vegetation management to decrease fire hazards that could result in loss of damage to property and life. The project is expected to cause the permanent loss, by conversion to dispersal/foraging habitat, of approx. 226.6 acres of core scrub habitat, for Alameda whipsnake (Masticophis lateralis euryxanthus). The project will therefore result in a permanent loss of a total of approx. 322.6 acres of core scrub habitat by conversion to dispersal foraging habitat or fragmentation. Impacts to Alameda whipsnake habitat will occur in three phases. Phase I will impact no more than 60.5 acres of core scrub habitat. Phase II will impact no more than 166.05 acres of core scrub habitat. Phase III will impact no more than 96.05 acres of core scrub habitat. Project could result in permanent impacts to pallid manzanita (Arctostaphylos pallida) through long-term thinning of shrub cover in some areas, although this is expected to have beneficial effect on the species. The project could therefore result in permanent and temporary impacts to 1.3 acres of pallid manzanita plants present within treatment areas (an estimated 656 plants).

Alameda, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Oakland, Orinda, Pinole, Pinole, Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland, Orinda, Alameda, ..., Richmond, San Leandro

Alameda, Contra Costa