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Coastal Prairie Mapping Project Revived PRESIDENT’S KEYBOARD, continued from page 2 • Offer to present our new PowerPoint, Coastal Prairie Mapping Project Revived Discover California Grasslands, to a he Coastal Prairie Enhancement Fea- information has been recorded, Alex will local school or organization. sibility Study, a project of Ocean Song incorporate it into a new GIS layer that will I’ll be guest speaker at the Environ- Farm and Wilderness Center and the aid in designing the field plan. mental Forum of Santa Rosa Junior Sonoma–Marin Coastal Grasslands Kathleen Kraft, the study’s project College on March 24th. TWorking Group, has been funded through coordinator, and botanist Linda Esposito • Offer to lead a grassland walk in con- September 2010 (the project had been dor- have put together five large maps cover- junction with a local park or resource mant as a result of the state bond freeze). ing coastal Marin and Sonoma Counties, management agency. With this fresh infusion of funds, the from the Golden Gate to Gualala (at the I’ll be leading a walk at Helen Putnam project to map Sonoma and Marin coastal border between Sonoma and Mendocino Park in Petaluma on April 18th with grasslands will get underway this spring. Counties). The inland extent of the project Sonoma County Regional Parks. Study participants will collect existing area is roughly the Highway 101 corri- • Take advantage of connections with knowledge of native grassland locations. dor. Approximate locations of significant your local resource managers and envi- They are asking local grassland special- grasslands (and wildflower fields) will be ronmental community to collaborate in ists, including CNGA Past President David identified by the local experts and pin- hosting a CNGA workshop or event. Amme, to contribute their expertise. Over pointed on the maps. I contacted the Sonoma County Water the past year, Alex Koltunov and Ayzik Data for each location will be recorded Agency and they agreed to host and Solomesheh of UC Davis have been prepar- and will include why the site is important, sponsor our workshop “Using Native ing a preliminary vegetation map and field directions to the site, and any species lists/ Grasses in the Water-Conserving sampling plan. Once the “local knowledge” maps/reports for that location. Landscape” on February 5th. Their sponsorship allows us to offer this outstanding workshop for a $50 Rare Hoover Semaphore Grass Threatened discount! DAVI D AMME , CNGA Past President Here are a few more ideas: Buy a gift of One of the few remaining populations of the rare Hoover (aka North Coast) CNGA membership for a friend or col- semaphore grass (Pleuropogon hooverianus) in California is slated for removal by league; Help out on a CNGA committee; the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as part of a freeway bypass Think about running for a board position, project in the central Mendocino County town of Willits. (This rare grass was high- truly an opportunity, as I’ve found, that Olighted in the summer 2009 issue of Grasslands.) Pleuropogon hooverianus is listed as allows you to be a part of something bigger threatened by the State of California. than ourselves. The original Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) was completed in 2006; CNGA is a million-dollar organization… apparently P. hooverianus was not mentioned in this document. After the FEIR was pub- that operates on less than $100k per year! lished, P. hooverianus was discovered within the project limits. Caltrans published a draft That’s not a lot of money for an organiza- Supplemental EIR (SEIR) in November 2009 and released it for comment (unfortunately, tion with statewide ambitions. But it’s not during the holiday season). Public comments are due by January 15, 2010. just money that makes an organization The Caltrans SEIR is intended to show the California Department of Fish and Game successful; it’s the passionate involvement how impacts to this threatened plant will be avoided, minimized, and fully mitigated. The of the members and willingness to give SEIR proposes to “permanently impact” 0.66 acres, or two-thirds of the P. hooverianus something back to the organization. Please population, as part of the Willits Bypass construction (“permanently impact” usually join me in making this a successful year for means “eliminate”). The SEIR also notes that the remaining 0.38 acres may be damaged CNGA—and for California’s grasslands! by changes to highway drainage. To mitigate for this loss, the SEIR proposes to reseed this rare plant and to commit to protection of other P. hooverianus populations. Join us on June 3–4 for Only 20 occurrences of P. hooverianus have been documented in California, accord- Grasslands of the ing to the California Natural Diversity Database (May 2009, RareFind 2 Personal Computer California North Coast: Program. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento). A Symposium CNGA is preparing comments for the Draft SEIR. Readers are encouraged to follow the permit process on the SEIR for the Willits Bypass at: HTTP ://WWW .DOT .CA .GOV /DIST 1 Registration form on page 19 /D1PROJECTS /WILLITS /INDEX .HTM . Winter 2010 G R A S S L A N D S | 3 SPECIAL REPORT : Rare S.F. Bay Native Coastal Prairie Site Proposed for Major Casino Project JIM HANSON , CNGA Board Member, Oakland It is a quiet, natural landscape that most as mowing or grazing, the stewardship of residents have never seen. From here one Point Molate’s native prairie rests primarily ne of the last relatively undeveloped can take in breathtaking views from atop on choices arising out of the political–eco- tracts of public land on the San hills carpeted with native bunchgrasses. nomic ecology of local, state, and federal OFrancisco Bay shoreline is being eyed Point Molate shares the geology of its influences. Therefore, this article attempts for a major casino project. sister hills across bay waters in Marin, still to offer a glimpse of the dynamics and At 124,000 square feet of card tables sustaining many of the same plant species guiding beliefs that will affect the choices and slot machines (4,000 of them), a that inhabited the area before San Fran- for this public land on San Francisco Bay. developer/tribe partnership is pursuing cisco Bay existed (CNPS 2009). The bridge What’s on the Table Now for a casino on San Francisco Bay at Point spanning from Richmond to San Rafael Point Molate? Molate that would surpass the size of most now connects them. This near-island was Shortly after the City of Richmond casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. officially connected to the East Bay when a acquired the land from the Navy, the devel- Point Molate is at the western edge of large, intervening shoreline marsh between oper, in partnership with the 11-member, the Potrero Hills at the tidal transition Point Molate and Richmond was filled in Ukiah-based Guidiville Band of Pomo between San Pablo and San Francisco Bays. (in an era when filling the bay tidelands Indians, presented casino plans based on was common) (Rose- the claim that Point Molate was ancestral lius 2005). Pomo land. Waves of Span- A public hearing in September on the ish, early East Coast, Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and post–World presented four development options for War II settlers have the site, three of which included a casino made an impact on (Richmond/BIA 2009). Other health, eastern landscapes educational institution, or “green” energy of the San Francisco development alternatives that poten- ➚ and San Pablo Bays, tially could return a fiscal benefit to the but the first recorded City were not included for comment or settlements were consideration. Ohlone and Coast At the hearing, several people who Miwok (Contra Costa commented on the casino project felt it County 2008a, 2009). would provide jobs for the city’s unem- During the 1900s, a ployed, while others said the project West-Coast wine dis- DEIR—because of its limited informa- tribution center and tion on employment, crime, traffic, and a Naval Fuel Depot oc- environmental concerns—was missing cupied Point Molate. important details. In 2003, the land was Some residents pressed for details on turned over to the City the actual number of promised jobs and of Richmond by the estimated wages. Others cited statistics on Navy for $1 (Bren- how crime and problem gambling escalate neman 2009). if a full-scale casino is brought close to a Although some metropolitan area. native grasslands are USGS survey map from late 1800s showing Point Molate and the A traffic engineer volunteered his analy- surrounding hills when it was called “Potrero San Pablo.” “Potrero” affected by manage- sis of inadequate road access; access to the means “meadows/grasslands.” Map provided by David Amme ment choices such SF BAY COASTAL PRAIRIE/casINO, continued on p. 5 4 | G R A S S L A N D S Winter 2010 SF BAY COASTAL PRAIRIE/casINO, continued from p. 4 impacts to sensitive environmental San Francisco Bay Area, the site also Point is by a two-lane road right next to the resources and social concerns for avoid- provides rare habitat for populations of Richmond–San Rafael Bridge toll plaza. ance or mitigation. The EIR is essen- state- and federally protected birds. Point A 32-page Technical Peer Review of the tially an “environmental accountability Molate falls within Audubon’s North Rich- DEIR by ESA Associates concludes that it statement.” mond Wetlands Important Bird Area (IBA), is incomplete and that a revised Draft EIS/ In the consultant-prepared project which tallied 92 species in a 2007–2008 EIR should be prepared and recirculated document, the heritage native prairie census. Surveyed species from the North (CFSPM 2009).
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