Other Beneficial Management Activities. This section summarizes any other Beneficial Management Activities that will be implemented on the Enrolled Property to benefit the Covered Species. Figure 4 shown below identifies locations of Other Beneficial Management Activities.
Other Beneficial Management Activities. This section summarizes any other Beneficial Management Activities that will be implemented and maintained during the term of the Agreement to improve habitat conditions for the Covered Species.
Other Beneficial Management Activities. This section summarizes any other Beneficial Management Activities that will be implemented and maintained during the term of the Agreement to improve habitat conditions for the Covered Species. Many of the Beneficial Management Activities proposed in the following sub-sections, are components of a larger project called, for now, the “Mid-Parks Creek, East Side Pastures and Spring Channels Renovation Evaluation Project” (Mid-Parks Creek Project, henceforth). While there are a number of projects on the Enrolled Property, referenced below, the complexity of this Project warrants an additional account of the setting and scope, which is the purpose of the following paragraphs. The geographic vicinity of this project is a sub-reach of Mid-Parks Creek from the meanders alongside the Olms Field (referencing Figure 2, about 0.5 mile downstream, or North, of POD Parks #4) through to the confluence of the North Slough, and continuing downstream to POD Parks #5. The Parks Creek channel through this subsection may have been altered by past owners to improve drainage and control flood events, at some un-quantified cost to stream ecology. All life stages of the Covered Species have been documented using this reach, including summer rearing in at least one year with a wet to very wet hydrograph. Using elevations from USGS 1:24000 topographic models, the slope averages less than 0.25% through this sub-reach. Bed material, including potential spawning gravels, are often carried out of the channel by high flow events and deposited on the pastures bordering Parks Creek. On the other side of the pastures, east of the stream, numerous springs and seeps emerge, on and off the property, at the interface of the block and matrix geologies of the Pleistocene Debris Flow Deposits which underlie the Enrolled Property (Davids Engineering, 2011). Generally the drainage away from these sources is north- northwesterly, with very flat slopes, similar to the Parks Creek channel. Past owners have made modifications to improve the drainage and ability to use flood irrigation to distribute water across the pastures. The Permittee has added infrastructure to improve the efficiency of the irrigation but maintenance of the distribution ditches and sloughs to keep water flowing is a significantly labor intensive task and leads to loss of productivity. The significant spring sources are on a contour with or downslope of a third of the pasture acreage on the east side of Parks Creek as well as the ...
