Sandhill Crane Sample Clauses
Sandhill Crane. The Program will achieve a five-year average enrollment of 3,500 acres of habitat for wintering Sandhill cranes within the Program Area, maintaining a minimum of 2,500 acres enrolled each year, starting Program Year 10 and continued for the term of this Contract. Sandhill crane habitat lands will be enrolled into the Program through water delivery and land management agreements between Regional San and designated contractors and landowner. Starting Program Year 5, the Program will deliver an annual average of 8,750 acre-feet of wintertime recycled water delivery for Sandhill crane habitat. Enrolled roosting and foraging crane habitat created and maintained by the Program will aim to support an average of 700 additional Sandhill cranes within the Program Area. To be eligible for inclusion in the Sandhill crane benefit, a location will satisfy the following criteria:
1. The habitat is within the Recycled Water Delivery Area.
2. The habitat does not contain permanent development or permanent crops (such as vineyards, plant nurseries, turf farms, blueberry fields, and orchards).
3. The habitat does not occur on pre-existing habitat already formally managed for Sandhill crane (i.e., lands within Stone Lakes NWR and Cosumnes River Preserve).
4. Lands are enrolled through water delivery/land management agreements with landowners to create and or enhance crane habitat.
5. Acres are maintained either as roosting habitat, or foraging habitat located within three miles of a documented Sandhill crane roosting site.
6. The acreage is not enrolled by the Program into another benefit category (i.e., vernal complex, wetland, or riparian habitat). For an area to be considered part of the Sandhill crane benefit, the Program must implement the following actions:
1. Delivery of recycled water for forage and/or roosting crane habitat within the Sandhill crane season of September through March. Specifically, the Program can deliver a portion of its annual average irrigation delivery volume, 32,500 acre-feet, in September and October and will deliver the entirety of the annual average wintertime delivery volume 8,750 acre-feet (or more, up to 17,500 acre-feet) November through March. Water delivery is subject to the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board), Division of Water Rights Order approving Regional San’s Wastewater Change Petition WW0092 and/or local hydrologic conditions, including serial storms and flooding. Field flooding and/or soil saturation will be ...
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Sandhill Crane. The proposed expansion will inundate some wetland areas used by sandhill cranes. The UYWCD has agreed to mitigate this loss by implementing the following mitigation strategies. • Work cooperatively with the CDOW and Stagecoach State Park to implement seasonal restrictions to the remaining wetlands in the Wetland Habitat Preserve. • Work with the CDOW to explore alternatives to enhance sandhill crane habitat elsewhere in the Stagecoach area. Elk mitigation has been an integral component to Stagecoach Reservoir. The UYWCD recognizes this and has agreed to the following mitigation strategies. • The UYWCD will continue to honor the seasonal road closure (January 1 – March 31annually) on RCR 18. This closure extends from the dam to the junction of RCR 18 and the entrance road to Stagecoach State Park.
Sandhill Crane. Sandhill crane surveys shall be conducted during nesting 28 season (January to August) and prior to commencement of construction (as 29 defined in Special Condition 17(c)) on DRI parcels that are anticipated to 30 contain or be in immediate proximity to potentially suitable sandhill crane 31 nesting habitat as defined by the FFWCC Nongame Wildlife Technical Report