Planning and Monitoring for the Strategic Conservation of Key Remaining Vernal Pool Habitat Blocks in California's Great Valley and Modoc Plateau Regions
Summary
SCH Number
2020040102
Public Agency
East Merced Resource Conservation District
Document Title
Planning and Monitoring for the Strategic Conservation of Key Remaining Vernal Pool Habitat Blocks in California's Great Valley and Modoc Plateau Regions
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/9/2020
Document Description
Our project will identify, characterize, and develop a conservation strategy framework for 2 to 4 large remaining vernal pool habitat blocks within the Great Valley and the Modoc Plateau in California. Habitat blocks will be selected that offer the best opportunities for achieving landscape-scale conservation and preserving each ecoregion’s unique biodiversity elements. Habitat restoration opportunities within each block will also be identified and characterized. This project will help identify and prioritize key remaining vernal pool habitat landscapes within each ecoregion that contain special-status species endemic to that area. Beneficiaries of this project include resource trustee agencies tasked with habitat and wildlife conservation. It is intended that the blocks will become focal points for ongoing conservation and restoration efforts by various public and private entities involved in land conservation. For example, our project supports the current interest by resource agencies and conservation groups in voluntary, grassroots conservation approaches, as represented by CDFW’s new Regional Conservation Investment Strategies (RCIS) program.
Contact Information
Name
Jean Okuye
Agency Name
East Merced Conservation District
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Agency Name
Jean Okuye
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Location
Counties
Alameda, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Kern, Kings, Lassen, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Shasta, Siskiyou, Solano, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo, Yuba
Other Location Info
Great Valley and Modoc Plateau
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
15262
Reasons for Exemption
This project is a planning study to identify properties that have high conservation value due to presence of vernal pool habitat and special status species. Funding agencies (Environmental Protection Agency, Wildlife Conservation Board) have not pre-approved any actions as result of this planning study. In addition, the outcome of this plan will not have a legally binding effect on later activities - i.e., there will be no legally binding actions for the properties identified as having high conservation value.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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