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Appendix F3 Rare Plant Survey Report
Appendix F3 Rare Plant Survey Report Draft CADIZ VALLEY WATER CONSERVATION, RECOVERY, AND STORAGE PROJECT Rare Plant Survey Report Prepared for May 2011 Santa Margarita Water District Draft CADIZ VALLEY WATER CONSERVATION, RECOVERY, AND STORAGE PROJECT Rare Plant Survey Report Prepared for May 2011 Santa Margarita Water District 626 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA 90017 213.599.4300 www.esassoc.com Oakland Olympia Petaluma Portland Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tampa Woodland Hills D210324 TABLE OF CONTENTS Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery, and Storage Project: Rare Plant Survey Report Page Summary ............................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................2 Objective .......................................................................................................................... 2 Project Location and Description .....................................................................................2 Setting ................................................................................................................................... 5 Climate ............................................................................................................................. 5 Topography and Soils ......................................................................................................5 -
Docket 07-Afc-5
DOCKET 07-AFC-5 DATE SEP 24 2008 RECD. SEP 24 2008 Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) (07-AFC-5) Supplemental Data Response, Set 1D (Responses to: Biological Resources) Submitted to the California Energy Commission Submitted by Solar Partners I, LLC; Solar Partners II, LLC; Solar Partners IV, LLC; and Solar Partners VIII, LLC September 24, 2008 With Assistance from 2485 Natomas Park Drive Suite 600 Sacramento, CA 95833 Introduction Attached are supplemental responses (Set 1D) by Solar Partners I, LLC; Solar Partners II, LLC; Solar Partners IV, LLC; and Solar Partners VIII, LLC (Applicant) to the California Energy Commission (CEC) Staff’s data requests for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (Ivanpah SEGS) Project (07-AFC-5). These data requests are the result of the workshop discussion held at Primm, Nevada on June 23, 2008.Within each discipline area, the responses are presented in alphabetical order and are numbered for tracking and reference convenience. New graphics or tables are numbered in reference to the Supplemental Data Request number. For example, if a table were used in response to Data Request AQ-1, it would be numbered Table AQ1-1. The first figure used in response to Data Request AQ-1 would be Figure AQ1-1, and so on. AFC figures or tables that have been revised have “R1” following the original number, indicating revision 1. Additional tables, figures, or documents submitted in response to a supplemental data request (supporting data, stand-alone documents such as plans, folding graphics, etc.) are found at the end of a discipline-specific section and may not be sequentially page-numbered consistently with the remainder of the document, though they may have their own internal page numbering system. -
Sensitive Species That Are Not Listed Or Proposed Under the ESA Sorted By: Major Group, Subgroup, NS Sci
Forest Service Sensitive Species that are not listed or proposed under the ESA Sorted by: Major Group, Subgroup, NS Sci. Name; Legend: Page 94 REGION 10 REGION 1 REGION 2 REGION 3 REGION 4 REGION 5 REGION 6 REGION 8 REGION 9 ALTERNATE NATURESERVE PRIMARY MAJOR SUB- U.S. N U.S. 2005 NATURESERVE SCIENTIFIC NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME(S) COMMON NAME GROUP GROUP G RANK RANK ESA C 9 Anahita punctulata Southeastern Wandering Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G4 NNR 9 Apochthonius indianensis A Pseudoscorpion Invertebrate Arachnid G1G2 N1N2 9 Apochthonius paucispinosus Dry Fork Valley Cave Invertebrate Arachnid G1 N1 Pseudoscorpion 9 Erebomaster flavescens A Cave Obligate Harvestman Invertebrate Arachnid G3G4 N3N4 9 Hesperochernes mirabilis Cave Psuedoscorpion Invertebrate Arachnid G5 N5 8 Hypochilus coylei A Cave Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G3? NNR 8 Hypochilus sheari A Lampshade Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G2G3 NNR 9 Kleptochthonius griseomanus An Indiana Cave Pseudoscorpion Invertebrate Arachnid G1 N1 8 Kleptochthonius orpheus Orpheus Cave Pseudoscorpion Invertebrate Arachnid G1 N1 9 Kleptochthonius packardi A Cave Obligate Pseudoscorpion Invertebrate Arachnid G2G3 N2N3 9 Nesticus carteri A Cave Spider Invertebrate Arachnid GNR NNR 8 Nesticus cooperi Lost Nantahala Cave Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G1 N1 8 Nesticus crosbyi A Cave Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G1? NNR 8 Nesticus mimus A Cave Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G2 NNR 8 Nesticus sheari A Cave Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G2? NNR 8 Nesticus silvanus A Cave Spider Invertebrate Arachnid G2? NNR -
A Checklist of Vascular Plants Endemic to California
Humboldt State University Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University Botanical Studies Open Educational Resources and Data 3-2020 A Checklist of Vascular Plants Endemic to California James P. Smith Jr Humboldt State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps Part of the Botany Commons Recommended Citation Smith, James P. Jr, "A Checklist of Vascular Plants Endemic to California" (2020). Botanical Studies. 42. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps/42 This Flora of California is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Educational Resources and Data at Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Botanical Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A LIST OF THE VASCULAR PLANTS ENDEMIC TO CALIFORNIA Compiled By James P. Smith, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Botany Department of Biological Sciences Humboldt State University Arcata, California 13 February 2020 CONTENTS Willis Jepson (1923-1925) recognized that the assemblage of plants that characterized our flora excludes the desert province of southwest California Introduction. 1 and extends beyond its political boundaries to include An Overview. 2 southwestern Oregon, a small portion of western Endemic Genera . 2 Nevada, and the northern portion of Baja California, Almost Endemic Genera . 3 Mexico. This expanded region became known as the California Floristic Province (CFP). Keep in mind that List of Endemic Plants . 4 not all plants endemic to California lie within the CFP Plants Endemic to a Single County or Island 24 and others that are endemic to the CFP are not County and Channel Island Abbreviations . -
Water Course Vegetation on Granitic and Calcareous Substrates in the Eastern Mojave Desert, California
WATER COURSE VEGETATION ON GRANITIC AND CALCAREOUS SUBSTRATES IN THE EASTERN MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA by Julie M. Evens A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of Humboldt State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts In Biology May, 2000 WATER COURSE VEGETATION ON GRANITIC AND CALCAREOUS SUBSTRATES IN THE EASTERN MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA by Julie M. Evens We certify that we have read this study and that it conforms to acceptable standards of scholarly presentation and is fully acceptable, in scope and quality, as a thesis for the degree of Master of Arts. Approved by the Master's Thesis Committee P. Dawn Goley Todd Keeler-Wolf Michael R. Mesler Milton J. Boyd, Graduate Coordinator Approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies Ronald A. Fritzsche ABSTRACT Desert water courses are topographically distinct features with periodic flooding, which are floristically rich and structurally complex. This study was undertaken to determine if plant species and vegetation types change along desert water courses as environmental gradients are crossed. In four granitic and four calcareous water courses, vegetation patterns were classified and described for 262 samples in the eastern Mojave Desert, California. In a broad altitudinal range from mountain slope to bajada, vegetation samples were systematically taken at 300 m intervals in a 9 km distance of each water course. A total of 15 alliances and 32 associations were delineated using Ward's method cluster analysis and Twinspan and were validated by Bray-Curtis ordination. The classification included alliances of one forest, two woodlands, two intermittently flooded shrublands, two temporarily flooded shrublands, and eight shrublands. -
Guano Creek/Sink Lakes Lucile A
Guano Creek/Sink Lakes Lucile A. Housley Lakeview District BLM, 1301 South G Street, Lakeview, Oregon 97630 As I traveled through the remote sagebrush covered hills in follow a dirt road (BLM 6106-0-0A) north of Highway 140 for southern Lake County, I spotted barren light colored hills off twelve miles, you arrive at the uninhabited Shirk Ranch. Once a in the distance. I turned my pickup toward the hills, knowing local bustling center, the ranch was abandoned 20 years ago, and they could harbor some interesting plants. Approaching the now the area and structures have been nominated for the National hills, I could see they were covered with pin cushion-like plants Register of Historic Places. A mile north of the ranch, Guano Creek ablaze in yellow flowers. Grabbing a hand lens, camera, and flows into the valley from a canyon to the west. With headwaters trowel I headed off to see what they were. As I sat on the at Blue Sky on Hart Mountain, Guano Creek, an intermittent ground examining the plants, I knew this was an Eriogonum desert water course, carved Guano Canyon through the basalt lay- I had never seen before. –Virginia Crosby Pyles ers below the dam at Jacob’s Reservoir, winding six miles through lava banks and white pumice hills to reach the broad, open Guano hus, over twenty-five years ago, Lakeview BLM botanist Valley. The hill on the north side of the creek rises to a high plateau Virginia Crosby discovered a new species of buckwheat where three vernal pools lie among the bunch grasses and sage- Tin the southern part of Guano Valley. -
Calochortus)From Southern British Columbia
Demographic perspectives on the rarity and persistence of two mariposa lilies (Calochortus)from southern British Columbia M<chael Miller B.A., Queen's uhversity at Kingston, 1989 A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in the Department of Biology O Michael Miller, 2004 University of Victoria All right reserved. This dissertation may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopying or other means, without the permission of the author. Abstract Co-supervisors: Dr. Geraldine Allen, Dr. Joe Antos The dynamics of peripheral populations provide insight into range limits and rarity. I studied sympatric populations of two species of mariposa lilies with contrasting distributions: Calochortus lyallii, a regional endemic of central Washington and southern British Columbia, and C. macrocarpus, a more widespread taxon. Marked plants were monitored for five years in the Okanagan highlands, at the northern range limit for C. Zyallii and near the elevational limit for C. macrocarpus. Life table data were used to generate stage-classified matrix population models for three populations of each species and, for C. lyallii, different microsites and plant densities. My objectives were to evaluate the demographic variation of C. lyallii among populations, microsite types and density classes, and to identify demographic differences between C. lyallii and C. macrocarpus that might contribute to their differing occurrence patterns. Annual population growth rates (lambdas) for C. lyallii ranged from 0.89 to 1.07 among populations, 0.87 to 1.29 among microsite types, and 0.86 to 1.07 among density classes. Life table response experiment analyses showed that inter-population and inter-microsite variances in lambda resulted mostly from variance in large adult fecundity, whereas the variance in lambda among density classes was mostly due to variance in vegetative stasis. -
ICBEMP Analysis of Vascular Plants
APPENDIX 1 Range Maps for Species of Concern APPENDIX 2 List of Species Conservation Reports APPENDIX 3 Rare Species Habitat Group Analysis APPENDIX 4 Rare Plant Communities APPENDIX 5 Plants of Cultural Importance APPENDIX 6 Research, Development, and Applications Database APPENDIX 7 Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the Interior Columbia River Basin 122 APPENDIX 1 Range Maps for Species of Conservation Concern These range maps were compiled from data from State Heritage Programs in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. This information represents what was known at the end of the 1994 field season. These maps may not represent the most recent information on distribution and range for these taxa but it does illustrate geographic distribution across the assessment area. For many of these species, this is the first time information has been compiled on this scale. For the continued viability of many of these taxa, it is imperative that we begin to manage for them across their range and across administrative boundaries. Of the 173 taxa analyzed, there are maps for 153 taxa. For those taxa that were not tracked by heritage programs, we were not able to generate range maps. (Antmnnrin aromatica) ( ,a-’(,. .e-~pi~] i----j \ T--- d-,/‘-- L-J?.,: . ey SAP?E%. %!?:,KnC,$ESS -,,-a-c--- --y-- I -&zII~ County Boundaries w1. ~~~~ State Boundaries <ii&-----\ \m;qw,er Columbia River Basin .---__ ,$ 4 i- +--pa ‘,,, ;[- ;-J-k, Assessment Area 1 /./ .*#a , --% C-p ,, , Suecies Locations ‘V 7 ‘\ I, !. / :L __---_- r--j -.---.- Columbia River Basin s-5: ts I, ,e: I’ 7 j ;\ ‘-3 “. -
Talinum, by David Ferguson 83
ROCK GARDEN QUARTERLY VOLUME 53 NUMBER 2 SPRING 1995 COVER: Iris reticulata with Lycaeides melissa by Cindy Nelson-Nold of Lakewood, Colorado All Material Copyright © 1995 North American Rock Garden Society ROCK GARDEN QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY formerly Bulletin of the American Rock Garden Society VOLUME 53 NUMBER 2 SPRING 1995 FEATURES Fameflowers: The Genus Talinum, by David Ferguson 83 Flag Patio Gone Awry: Accidentally a Rock Garden, by Marcia Tatroe 101 Westerners Go East: Getting Started, by James L. Jones 107 Heucheras: A Few Good Choices, by Grahame Ware 113 Year of the Hoop House: 1994 at Ft. Courage, by Ev Whittemore 127 New Leaf Forms of Hepatica nobilis, by Severin Schlyter 135 DEPARTMENTS Plant Show 133 Plant Portraits 145 82 ROCK GARDEN QUARTERLY VOL. 53:2 FAMEFLOWERS THE GENUS TALINUM by David J. Ferguson What is a "fameflower"? When I Corners. Perhaps the challenge of fig• was a little guy, growing up in north• uring out just what plants I had col• eastern Colorado and western lected was part of what hooked me. I Nebraska, there were two different should mention that the Talinum fameflowers among the many kinds of calycinum is really quite small, to 6" cute little wildflowers that grew in tall, just large by comparison. Both gravelly spots. For me, at that time, species withstand -40°F to 120°F, hard• small cushion plants and tiny succu• ly delicate, yet delicate in appearance. lents just didn't compare to all the Oh, almost forgot, a fameflower, is, cacti, yuccas, prickly poppies and of course, a Talinum; well, at least other showy-flowered, spiny wonders that's part of the story. -
All BLM CALIFORNIA SPECIAL STATUS PLANTS
All BLM CALIFORNIA SPECIAL STATUS PLANTS Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:00:38 AM CA RARE PLANT RANK RECOVERY PLAN? PALM SPRINGS MOTHER LODE GLOBAL RANK NNPS STATUSNNPS BAKERSFIELD BLM STATUS RIDGECREST STATE RANK FED STATUS EAGLE LAKE NV STATUS EL CENTRO CA STATUS HOLLISTER TYPE BARSTOW SURPRISE REDDING ALTURAS NEEDLES ARCATA OF DATE BISHOP SCIENTIFIC NAME COMMON NAME PLANT FAMILY UPDATED COMMENTS UKIAH Abronia umbellata var. pink sand-verbena VASC Nyctaginaceae BLMS 1B.1 G4G5T2 S1 No 29-Apr-13 Formerly subsp. breviflora (Standl.) K breviflora Munz. Abronia villosa var. aurita chaparral sand-verbena VASC Nyctaginaceae BLMS 1B.1 G5T3T4 S2 No 06-Aug-13 CNDDB occurrences 2 and 91 are on S K BLM lands in the Palm Springs Field Office. Acanthomintha ilicifolia San Diego thornmint VASC Lamiaceae FT SE 1B.1 G1 S2 No 12-Mar-15 Status changed from "K" to "S" on S 8/6/2013. Naomi Fraga was unable to find the species on BLM lands when trying to collect seeds in 2012. Although there are several CNDDB occurences close to BLM lands, none of these actually intersect with BLM lands. Acanthoscyphus parishii Cushenberry oxytheca VASC Polygonaceae FE 1B.1 G4?T1 S1 No 06-Aug-13 Formerly Oxytheca parishii var. K var. goodmaniana goodmaniana. Name change based on Reveal, J.L. 2004. Nomenclatural summary of Polygonaceae subfamily Eriogonoideae. Harvard Papers in Botany 9(1):144. A draft Recovery Plan was issued in 1997 but as of 8/6/2013 was not final. Some of the recovery actions in the draft plan have been started and partially implemented. -
Inventory of Vascular Plants at Mojave National Preserve & Manzanar Historic Site
Inventory of Vascular Plants at Mojave National Preserve & Manzanar Historic Site For U.S. National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program Camissonia boothii ssp. boothii Prepared by James M. André University of California Riverside, Granite Mountains Desert Research Center November 15, 2006 Contract Number: P2128020178 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 National Inventory and Monitoring Program and Mojave Network 1 1.2 Program Overview 1 1.3 Regional Context and Significance 2 1.3.1 Mojave National Preserve 2 1.3.2 Manzanar Historic Site 4 1.4 Objectives 5 2.0 METHODS 2.1 Herbarium Surveys 7 2.1.1 Database and Bibliographic Query 7 2.2 Field Surveys 7 2.2.1 Mojave National Preserve 7 2.2.2 Manzanar Historic Site 8 2.3 Voucher Specimens 8 2.4 Survey Timing 9 2.5 Field Investigators 9 3.0 RESULTS 3.1 Level of Effort 10 3.2 Summary of Findings - Manzanar Historic Site 10 3.3 Summary of Findings - Mojave National Preserve 14 3.3.1 Field Surveys 14 3.3.2 New Vascular Plant Taxa for MOJA 14 3.3.3 Special-Status Plants 33 3.3.4 Non-Native Alien Plants 40 4.0 DISCUSSION 4.1 Summary 41 4.2 Recommendations 41 Acknowledgements 43 5.0 REFERENCES 44 i List of Maps, Tables and Appendices Map 1. Distribution of all Area Searches in Priority Locations, Targeted Surveys, and Opportunistic Surveys conducted in the Mojave National Preserve, 2002 – 2005. 15 Table 1. Checklist of vascular plant taxa known to occur in the Manzanar Historic Site. -
Rare Plant Surveys and Vegetation Mapping For
Appendix A Rare Plant and Vegetation Surveys 2002 and 2003 Santa Ysabel Ranch Open Space Preserve Prepared For The Nature Conservancy San Diego County Field Office The County of San Diego Department of Parks and Recreation By Virginia Moran, M.S. Botany Sole Proprietor Ecological Outreach Services P.O. Box 2858 Grass Valley, California 95945 Southeast view from the northern portion of the West Ranch with snow-frosted Volcan Mountain in the background. Information contained in this report is that of Ecological Outreach Services and all rights thereof reserved. Santa Ysabel Ranch Botanical Surveys 2 Contents I. Summary ……………………………………………………………… ……………. 4 II. Introduction and Methods……………………………..……………… …………… 5 III Results…………………………………………………………………...…………… 6 III.A. East Ranch Species of Interest Plant Communities III.B. West Ranch Species of Interest Plant Communities III.C. Sensitive Resources of the Santa Ysabel Ranch IV. Discussion……………………………………………………………….……………. 14 V. Conclusion…………………………………………….……………….……………… 18 VI. Management Recommendations…………………….……………………… …….. 19 VII. Suggested Future Projects………………….…….……………………… …………26 VIII. Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………… …….. 28 IX. References Cited / Consulted ……………………..……………………………….. 29 X. Maps and Figures ………………………….……………………………… ……... 30 Appendices 1 - 6 …………………………….…………………………………………….…44 Santa Ysabel Ranch Botanical Surveys 3 I. Summary The Santa Ysabel Ranch Open Space Preserve was established in 2001 from a purchase by The Nature Conservancy from the Edwards Family; the Ranch is now owned by the County of San Diego and managed as a Department of Parks and Recreation Open Space Preserve. It totals nearly 5,400 acres and is comprised of two parcels; an "East Ranch” and a "West Ranch". The East Ranch is east of the town of Santa Ysabel (and Highway 79 running north) and is bordered on the east by Farmer's Road in Julian.