Annual Report 2005 (62.7MB) - Western Riverside County Regional ...

2.0 HABITAT GAINS AND LOSSES2.1.8 Rough Step 8Rough Step 8 encompasses 50,400 acres within the west-central region of western RiversideCounty and includes the Cities of Lake Elsinore and Canyon Lake, the Alberhill Area, SanJacinto River, Horsethief Canyon, and Temescal Wash (see Figure 10, Rough Step #8). Thisrough step unit is bounded by the Santa Ana Mountains to the west, Interstate 215 to the east,Bundy Canyon Road to the south, and Rough Step 7 to the north. Within Rough Step 8, there areover 22,600 acres within the Criteria Area. Key vegetation communities within Rough Step 8include coastal sage scrub; grasslands; riparian scrub, woodland, forest; and Riversidean alluvialfan sage scrub. Rough step acreage goals are therefore provided for each of these habitat types.Table 9, Rough Step 8 Acreage Totals, also includes acres conserved for habitats for which roughstep acreage goals do not exist.TABLE 9Rough Step 8 Acreage TotalsKey Vegetation Communities within theRough StepFrom Table 6-3 in MSHCPPrivate LandAcres within theCriteria Area inthe Rough StepAdditionalReserve LandAcreage Goalfor the KeyVegetationCommunityTotal AcresConserved(betweenFebruary 2000and December31, 2005)AllowableDevelopmentAcreagethroughDecember 31,2005 (UtilizingRough StepForecastingFormula)Total AcresAuthorized forDevelopment byCities and theCounty(between June22, 2004, andDecember 31,2005)Coastal Sage Scrub 6,400 4,940 1,180 349 304Grasslands 3,690 1,840 101 102 475Riparian Scrub, Woodland, Forest 280 250 58 7 3Riversidean Alluvial Fan Sage Scrub 190 130 0 0 2Remaining Vegetation Categories without Rough Step Acreage GoalsAgriculture 0 14Chaparral 218 144Developed or Disturbed 358 170Water 0 0Woodlands and Forest 0 0Total: 1,915 1,112Western Riverside County MSHCP October 2006Annual Report (January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005) 2-23