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'UDIW Biodiversity, Fire, and Fuels Integrated Plan Marin Municipal Water District Draft Biodiversity, Fire, and Fuels Integrated Plan September 15, 2016 One Embarcadero Center, Suite 740 San Francisco, CA 94111 650-373-1200 www.panoramaenv.com Marin Municipal Water District Draft Biodiversity, Fire, and Fuels Integrated Plan September 15, 2016 Prepared for: Marin Municipal Water District 220 Nellen Avenue Corte Mader, CA 94925 Prepared by: Panorama Environmental, Inc. One Embarcadero Center, Suite 740 San Francisco, CA 94111 650-373-1200 [email protected] One Embarcadero Center, Suite 740 San Francisco, CA 94111 650-373-1200 www.panoramaenv.com TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Acronyms and Abbreviations ............................................................................................................ v ES Executive Summary .............................................................................................................. ES-1 ES.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ ES-1 ES.2 Background ........................................................................................................................ ES-1 ES.3 Threats, Trends, and Strategies ........................................................................................ ES-2 ES.4 Goals and Approaches .................................................................................................... ES-4 ES.5 Implementation of the BFFIP ............................................................................................ ES-5 ES.6 BFFIP Costs and Annual Work Plan .................................................................................. ES-9 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 1-1 1.1 Overview of Marin Municipal Water District Watershed Lands ..................................... 1-1 1.2 Plan Goals .............................................................................................................................. 1-3 1.3 Plan Purpose and Need ....................................................................................................... 1-3 1.4 Plan Principles and Framework ........................................................................................... 1-4 1.5 History of Vegetation Management and Current Practices ......................................... 1-5 1.6 Current Plan Process ............................................................................................................. 1-8 2 Environmental Setting ............................................................................................................. 2-1 2.1 District-Owned Lands ........................................................................................................... 2-1 2.2 Surrounding Built Environment ............................................................................................ 2-5 2.3 Infrastructure on Watershed Lands .................................................................................... 2-5 2.4 Biological Resources, Hydrology, Functions, and Values ............................................. 2-13 3 Threats, Trends, and Strategies .............................................................................................. 3-1 3.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 3-1 3.2 Assets at Risk .......................................................................................................................... 3-2 3.3 Threats and Trends ................................................................................................................ 3-4 3.4 Strategies .............................................................................................................................. 3-16 3.5 Conceptual Zoning of the Landscape ........................................................................... 3-24 4 Goal and Approach Framework for Plan ............................................................................. 4-1 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 4-1 4.2 Plan Goals and Approaches .............................................................................................. 4-1 5 Implementation of Inventorying, Monitoring, and Planning Management Actions ......... 5-1 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 5-1 5.2 Summary of Inventorying Management Actions ............................................................ 5-1 Draft Biodiversity, Fire, and Fuels Integrated Plan ● September 2016 i TABLE OF CONTENTS 5.3 Summary of Planning and Monitoring Management Actions ....................................... 5-7 5.4 Methods to Implement Actions .......................................................................................... 5-9 6 Implementation of Vegetation Management Actions ........................................................ 6-1 6.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 6-1 6.2 Vegetation Management Actions .................................................................................... 6-1 6.3 Methods to Implement Actions .......................................................................................... 6-8 7 Cost and Preliminary Work Plan ............................................................................................ 7-1 7.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 7-1 7.2 Summary of Costs and Activities ........................................................................................ 7-1 7.3 Anticipated Outcomes After Initial Five Years of Implementation of the BFFIP .......... 7-7 References .............................................................................................................................. 8-1 List of Appendices Appendix A: Marin Municipal Water District Policies Appendix B: History of Wildfires on MMWD Lands Appendix C: Reference List of Existing MMWD Data and Research Appendix D: Special-Status Species Known to Occur or with Potential to Occur on MMWD Lands Appendix E: Extirpated Plant Species on MMWD Lands Appendix F: MMWD Best Management Practices List of Tables Table ES-1 Conceptual Zones .................................................................................................... ES-2 Table ES-2 Goals and Approaches for the BFFIP ..................................................................... ES-4 Table ES-3 BFFIP Management Actions .................................................................................... ES-5 Table ES-4 Yearly BFFIP Costs ...................................................................................................... ES-9 Table 2-1 Biological Resources on District Lands ................................................................... 2-15 Table 3-1 Decline in Tanoak Dominated Forest Types 2004-2014 ....................................... 3-12 Table 5-1 Inventorying, Monitoring, and Planning Management Actions .......................... 5-2 Table 6-1 Vegetation Management Actions .......................................................................... 6-2 Table 6-2 Vegetation Management Toolbox .......................................................................... 6-8 Table 7-1 Summary of Costs for Inventorying, Monitoring, and Planning Management Actions ................................................................................................ 7-3 Table 7-2 Summary of Costs for Vegetation Management Actions .................................... 7-5 List of Figures Figure 1-1 Adaptive Management Schematic ........................................................................ 1-6 Figure 2-1 Lands Managed by Marin Municipal Water District .............................................. 2-3 Figure 2-2 Map of WUI .................................................................................................................. 2-7 Figure 2-3 Map of Road/ Trails and Facilities (Map 1 of 4) ..................................................... 2-9 Figure 2-4 Map of Road/ Trails and Facilities (Map 2 of 4) ................................................... 2-10 Figure 2-5 Map of Road/ Trails and Facilities (Map 3 of 4) ................................................... 2-11 Figure 2-6 Map of Road/ Trails and Facilities (Map 4 of 4) ................................................... 2-12 Figure 2-7 Map of Road and Trails at Nicasio and Soulajule Reservoirs ............................. 2-14 Draft Biodiversity, Fire, and Fuels Integrated Plan ● September 2016 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Figure 2-8 Occurrence of Special-Status Plants in the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed (Map 1 of 4) ........................................................................................... 2-19 Figure 2-9 Occurrence of Special-Status Plants in the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed (Map 2 of 4) ........................................................................................... 2-20 Figure 2-10 Occurrence of Special-Status Plants in the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed (Map 3 of 4) ..........................................................................................
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