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Environmental Impact Statement - Sonoma Land Trust

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Table 3.5-2. Continued Page 9 of 12<br />

Common Name<br />

Scientific Name<br />

Salt marsh harvest mouse<br />

Reithrodontomys raviventris<br />

Suisun ornate shrew<br />

Sorex ornatus sinuosus<br />

American badger<br />

Taxidea taxus<br />

Status<br />

Federal/State/<br />

Other Geographic Distribution Habitat Requirements<br />

E/-<br />

–/SSC<br />

–/SSC<br />

San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun<br />

Bays; the Delta<br />

Restricted to San Pablo Bay and<br />

Suisun Bay, both in Solano and<br />

<strong>Sonoma</strong> County.<br />

In California, badgers occur<br />

throughout the state except in humid<br />

coastal forests of northwestern<br />

California in Del Norte and Humboldt<br />

Counties<br />

Salt marshes with a dense plant cover of<br />

pickle-weed and fat hen; adjacent to an<br />

upland site<br />

Tidal, salt, and brackish marshes<br />

containing pickleweed, grindelia,<br />

bulrushes, or cattails; requires driftwood<br />

or other objects for nesting cover<br />

Badgers occur in a wide variety of open,<br />

arid habitats but are most commonly<br />

associated with grasslands, savannas,<br />

mountain meadows, and open areas of<br />

desert scrub; the principal habitat<br />

requirements for the species appear to be<br />

sufficient food (burrowing rodents),<br />

friable soils, and relatively open,<br />

uncultivated ground<br />

PLANTS (NOTE: POTENTIAL OCCURRENCE COLUMN IDENTIFIES TOPOGRAPHIC QUAD OCCURRENCES IN VICINITY OF ACTION AREA)<br />

Napa false indigo<br />

Amorpha californica var.<br />

napensis<br />

Mt. Tamalpais manzanita<br />

Arctostaphylos hookeri subsp.<br />

montana<br />

Alkali milk-vetch<br />

Astragalus tener var. tener<br />

–/–/1B.2<br />

–/–/1B.3<br />

–/–/1B.2<br />

Coastal California, in <strong>Sonoma</strong>, Napa,<br />

Marin, and Monterey Counties<br />

Marin County, around Mount<br />

Tamalpais<br />

Southern Sacramento Valley, northern<br />

San Joaquin Valley, east San<br />

Francisco Bay Area<br />

Openings in broadleaved upland forest,<br />

cismontane woodland, chaparral,<br />

between 500–6.580 feet; blooms April–<br />

July<br />

Chaparral and scattered shrubs in<br />

grassland, on serpentinite, between 525–<br />

2,500 feet<br />

Grassy flats and vernal pool margins, on<br />

alkali soils; blooms March–June<br />

Potential Occurrence in<br />

Project/Study Area<br />

High. Suitable habitat adjacent to<br />

the Project site but no suitable<br />

habitat onsite. Project will create<br />

suitable habitat for this species<br />

and is expected to benefit the<br />

recovery of this species. Habitat<br />

exists along Tolay Creek and San<br />

Pablo Bay in dredging and breach<br />

areas.<br />

Low. Known occurrences with 10<br />

miles of the project site;<br />

marginally suitable habitat onsite.<br />

Low. Upland areas could provide<br />

suitable habitat.<br />

Burdell Mountain, Arrowhead<br />

Mountain<br />

Big Rock Ridge<br />

Petaluma, Napa, American<br />

Canyon

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