Environmental Impact Statement - Sonoma Land Trust

California Department of Fish and Game
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Section 3.8. Recreation
additional travel required to reach these facilities, while potentially inconvenient
for some, would not pose a substantial hardship for the majority of the Sports
Club members. Further, given their relative proximity and other hunting
opportunities, the loss of the Sports Club would not inherently result in the need
for additional private hunting facilities to be constructed elsewhere that might
result in secondary environmental effects.
Once USFWS and CDFG assumes ownership of its portion of the Sears Point
properties, they intend to allow hunting within the Project site to the general
public. Although no plans are currently made for the continued stocking of
upland game birds, such as pheasant and chukar, the restoration project would
create waterfowl habitat that would offer waterfowl hunting opportunities in
season.
Taken together, the availability of other upland game hunting and the future
availability of the site for waterfowl hunting, the restoration of tidal wetlands
across the southernmost portion of the property would not constitute a
substantialsignificant impact with respect to the loss of upland game bird hunting
or recreational shooting opportunities in the region.
Sears Point Wetland and Watershed Restoration
Project Final Environmental Impact
Report/Environmental Impact Statement
3.8-9
April 2012