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Santa Rosa Plain Santa Rosa Plain Conservation Strategy Conservation Strategy Overview Overview

East Alameda County Conservation Strategy East Alameda County Conservation Strategy User Advisory Group Meeting User Advisory Group Meeting

May 15, 2008 May 15, 2008 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service California Department of Fish and Game California Department of Fish and Game

California Tiger Salamander California Tiger Salamander

Four Listed Plant Species Four Listed Plant Species

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• flowered navarretia

flowered navarretia

Public Input and Peer Review Public Input and Peer Review

• Public Meetings May 24, 2004, Sept 12, 2005

Public Meetings May 24, 2004, Sept 12, 2005

• Peer Review input Fall 2004

Peer Review input Fall 2004

• Public Meeting and Review of Draft, Sept 2005

Public Meeting and Review of Draft, Sept 2005

• Final Conservation Strategy, Dec 2005

Final Conservation Strategy, Dec 2005

• Programmatic Biological Opinion, Nov 2007

Programmatic Biological Opinion, Nov 2007

• Local Government Implementation Committee On Going

Local Government Implementation Committee On Going Web site Web site – – http:// http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/es/santa_rosa_conservation.h www.fws.gov/sacramento/es/santa_rosa_conservation.h tml tml and and http://ci.santa http://ci.santa-

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Team Goals Team Goals

• Develop a habitat conservation strategy for California

Develop a habitat conservation strategy for California tiger salamander and listed plant species tiger salamander and listed plant species

• Identify proposed areas for conservation

Identify proposed areas for conservation

• Develop an implementation framework which couples

Develop an implementation framework which couples conservation actions with development related impacts conservation actions with development related impacts

• Establish development process predictability

Establish development process predictability

Conservation Strategy Conservation Strategy

• Biological framework upon which future regulatory

Biological framework upon which future regulatory actions will be based actions will be based

• Biological basis for a permitting process for projects in

Biological basis for a permitting process for projects in the potential range of listed species the potential range of listed species

• Provide consistency, timeliness and certainty for

Provide consistency, timeliness and certainty for permitted activities permitted activities

• Strategy covers the potential range of species

Strategy covers the potential range of species

Conservation Strategy Conservation Strategy

• Establishes interim and long term mitigation requirements

Establishes interim and long term mitigation requirements

• Designates conservation areas

Designates conservation areas

• Describes how preserves will be established and managed

Describes how preserves will be established and managed

• Guidelines translocation, adaptive management and funding

Guidelines translocation, adaptive management and funding

• Describes a potential implementation process

Describes a potential implementation process

Conservation Areas Conservation Areas

• Known distribution of species

Known distribution of species

• Presence of suitable habitat

Presence of suitable habitat

• Large blocks of suitable or restorable land

Large blocks of suitable or restorable land

• Adjacency to existing preserves

Adjacency to existing preserves

Develop Develop-

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ment of the the Strategy, Strategy, Reliance Reliance

• n GIS
• n GIS

Data Layers Data Layers

• Biological

Biological

• Wetlands

Wetlands

• Plants

Plants

• CTS occurrence

CTS occurrence

• Land use

Land use

• Property information

Property information

• Existing preserves

Existing preserves

• Proposed development

Proposed development

• Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Preserve Preserve Design Design

• Constraints

Constraints

• Corridors

Corridors

• Future

Future Development Development

• Land use

Land use

• Existing preserves

Existing preserves

• Where the habitat is

Where the habitat is

• Where the species

Where the species are are

Plant Plant Distribution Distribution Data used in Data used in Developing Developing the the Conservation Conservation Strategy Strategy

Preserve Establishment Preserve Establishment

• Preserve Evaluation Criteria

Preserve Evaluation Criteria

• Mitigation Banks

Mitigation Banks

• Translocation

Translocation

• Habitat Improvement

Habitat Improvement

• Management Plans

Management Plans

• Preserve Funding

Preserve Funding

• Monitoring & Adaptive Management

Monitoring & Adaptive Management

Mitigation Mitigation

• Minimization Measures

Minimization Measures

• Mitigation Ratios

Mitigation Ratios

• Species Fund

Species Fund

• Not Likely To Affect

Not Likely To Affect

• Linear Projects

Linear Projects

• Interim Guidelines

Interim Guidelines

The Santa Rosa Conservation The Santa Rosa Conservation Strategy is a collaborative planning Strategy is a collaborative planning document intended to facilitate the document intended to facilitate the regulatory process and ensure regulatory process and ensure meaningful resource conservation. meaningful resource conservation.

Lessons Learned Lessons Learned

• Expedite time frame and improve efficiency

Expedite time frame and improve efficiency with use of consultants and a jurisdiction/ with use of consultants and a jurisdiction/ agency team approach agency team approach

• All jurisdictions represented in development of

All jurisdictions represented in development of strategy strategy

• Open Stakeholder process improves strategy

Open Stakeholder process improves strategy development development

• More public input throughout the development

More public input throughout the development

• f the Strategy
• f the Strategy

EACCS Benefits EACCS Benefits

• Regional approach to conservation

Regional approach to conservation

• Better conservation for listed and special status

Better conservation for listed and special status species (no longer piecemeal) species (no longer piecemeal)

• Efficiency in management and acquisition of

Efficiency in management and acquisition of preserves preserves

• Streamlined permitting process

Streamlined permitting process

• Open dialogue between jurisdictions,

Open dialogue between jurisdictions, stakeholders, and regulatory agencies stakeholders, and regulatory agencies