Land Management Plan - Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy

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Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy of the area. Communication systems provide for public and employee safety and other administrative uses. Coordination with Fort Hunter Liggett is maintained and improved. September 2005 Program Emphasis: Maintain and enhance the unique water-based recreation experience along the Arroyo Seco River while mitigating any affects of visitor use within this steelhead trout watershed. This mitigation may include limiting the number of visitors and/or restrictions on seasonal use of sensitive habitat areas to minimize potential affects. Emphasize vegetative management in the Wildland/Urban Interface including fuels management within adjoining areas of wilderness. Protect, maintain and enhance important historic structures. Maintain facilities at the Arroyo Seco Recreation Area to improve administrative support. Increase visitor education and opportunities relative to the habitat needs of sensitive biological resources and the protection and management of the natural and cultural resources along the river. Maintain and enhance access to the Ventana Wilderness where feasible. Improve communications facilities to provide wider coverage across the district to improve employee and public safety. This could include installation of a Forest Service radio repeater on either Junipero Serra or Pinyon Peak. Look for opportunities to coordinate resource management with Fort Hunter Liggett and to meet housing and administrative needs. Page 38
September 2005 Land Management Plan Part 2 Los Padres National Forest Strategy Avenales Theme: Rural ranching within a cultural landscape of rolling blue oak and valley oak woodlands and savannas. Grazing is a major activity within this Place, as well as primitive recreation in the two wilderness areas. Setting: The rural and isolated landscape of the Avenales Place is made up of mountains and low hills that are bisected by a well-developed valley adjacent to the upper Salinas River. The valley bottom, including the river is predominantly privately owned but flanked on both sides by the public lands in the rugged La Panza Range and Garcia Mountain. The Salinas River and Alamo Creek originate in watersheds feeding the valley. The valley separates the Garcia Wilderness that covers most of the southeast trending Garcia Mountain from the Machesna Mountain Wilderness that occupies the midsection of the La Panza Range. The American Canyon Research Natural Area is nested within the Machesna Mountain Wilderness. Valley vegetation includes annual grasslands and extensive blue oak (Quercus douglasii) and valley oak (Quercus lobata) woodlands and savannas. Blue oak woodlands and forests extend onto public lands, especially in American Canyon, Los Machos Hills, around Stony Creek and near the Avenales Observation Point. The riparian corridor along the Salinas River is lined with open Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii) and willow woodlands. Upland mountainous terrain is clothed almost entirely in chaparral. The American Canyon RNA protects the best examples of Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri)/chaparral forests and woodlands on the central coast. Blue oak woodlands are vital wildlife habitat and support a wide variety of vertebrate species. Historically, owners of the Avenales Ranch, in cooperation with California Department of Fish and Game, introduced a herd of tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes) that now range onto National Forest System lands. Castle Crag, a looming rock outcrop on the edge of the Machesna Mountain Wilderness is a historic California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) nesting site, and more recently the site of successful condor reintroductions. Page 39 The Avenales Place has limited public access. Seasonal access to American Canyon
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