Environmental Impact Statement - Sonoma Land Trust

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California Department of Fish and Game U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Section 3.6. Land Use and Public Utilities GP 2020 • Objective LU-11f: Encourage conservation of undeveloped land, open space, and agricultural lands; protection of water and soil quality; restoration of ecosystems; and minimization or elimination of the disruption of existing natural ecosystems and flood plains. • Objective OSRC-7.5: Maintain connectivity between natural habitat areas. • Objective OSRC-7.8: Encourage voluntary efforts to restore and enhance biotic habitat. • Objective OSRC-7.9: Preserve and restore the Laguna de Santa Rosa, San Pablo Bay and Petaluma marshes and other major marshes and wetlands. • Objective OSRC-7.10: Promote protection of native marine and shoreline plant and animal habitats along the Pacific Coast and San Pablo Bay shorelines. • Objective OSRC-7p: Support voluntary programs for habitat restoration and enhancement, hazardous fuel management, removal and control of invasive exotics, native plant revegetation, treatment of woodlands affected by Sudden Oak Death, use of fencerows and hedgerows, and management of biotic habitat. • Objective OSRC-7s: Develop comprehensive programs for preservation and restoration of the San Pablo Bay area and shoreline habitats, including mechanisms for preservation and enhancement such as acquisition, zoning and easements and avoiding activities such as filling, grading or construction that would be detrimental to the biotic resources or historic water retention functions. San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project The San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project (Goals Project) was a 5-year volunteer collaborative effort completed in 1998. Sponsored by a group of agencies that included EPA, CDFG, and RWQCB, it involved more than 100 scientists from federal, state, and local agencies, as well as private consulting firms and universities. The results of the Goals Project address a 9- county area that encompasses the entire estuary downstream of the Delta. The Goals Project is intended to provide guidance to public and private stakeholders interested in restoring and enhancing the wetlands and related habitats of the San Francisco Bay estuary system. It is an informational document that recommends the types, areal extent, and distribution of habitats needed to sustain diverse and healthy ecosystems in the San Francisco Bay estuary. Recommendations are presented by region, subregion, and segment. Region-wide goals include the restoration of large patches of tidal wetland connected by corridors to enable the movement of small mammals and wetland-dependent birds, the restoration of large complexes of salt ponds for the management of shorebirds, and the expansion of large areas of managed wetland. Sears Point Wetland and Watershed Restoration Project Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement 3.6-4 April 2012
California Department of Fish and Game U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Section 3.6. Land Use and Public Utilities The Project’s ecological goals are based on the recommendations of the 1999 Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Report for the San Francisco Estuary (San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project 1999). As described in the Goals Report, the overall goal for the North Bay Subregion – the subregion in which the Project is located – is “to restore large areas of tidal marsh and to enhance seasonal wetlands.” Specifically for the Project area, the Goals Report recommends the following unique restoration opportunities. • Restore a continuous, wide band of tidal marsh along the bayshore from Tolay Creek to the Petaluma River; • Establish managed marsh or enhanced seasonal pond habitat on agricultural baylands that are not restored to tidal marsh; • Provide natural transitions at the marsh/upland ecotone and buffers in the adjacent uplands; • Encourage seasonal wetlands and managed marsh creation at Burdell Ranch around Gnoss Airfield, and in areas constrained by infrastructure along the Highway 37 corridor between Sears Point and the Petaluma River; • Protect and enhance moist grassland habitats on the eastern portion of this segment. (San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project 1999). McAteer–Petris Act, San Francisco Bay Plan, and Coastal Zone Management Act The McAteer–Petris Act, passed by the State of California in 1965, established the BCDC as the state agency responsible for regulating development in and around San Francisco Bay and directed BCDC to undertake the planning effort that resulted in the development of the San Francisco Bay Plan. The Bay Plan describes the values associated with the Bay and presents policies and planning maps to guide future uses of the Bay and its shoreline. Under the Bay Plan the priorities for suitable uses of the shoreline are ports, water-related industry, airports, wildlife refuges, and water-related recreation. The project site is designated for wildlife priority use. The Bay Plan also proposes to add land to the Bay refuge system; encourages public access via marinas, waterfront parks, and beaches; and requires the provision of maximum access along the Bay shorelines—except where public uses conflict with other significant uses or where public use is inappropriate because of safety concerns. The federal Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 encourages states to voluntarily develop CMPs to preserve and protect the unique features of each coastal area. BCDC is the state coastal management agency for the San Francisco Bay segment of the coastal zone, and its laws and policies constitute the federally approved state coastal management program for the Bay. Sears Point Wetland and Watershed Restoration Project Final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement 3.6-5 April 2012
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