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Admin Draft Ecological Baseline Report


	Administrative Draft Ecological Baseline Conditions Report (Chapter 3) (revised May 25, 2007). Note: These documents are in administrative draft form and are still being reviewed and refined by the Steering and Stakeholder Committeees, Wildlife Agencies, and various local and regional experts. The Ecological Baseline Assessment Report will become Chapter 3 of the public draft HCP/NCCP document which will be released in early-mid 2009 and may be substantially revised from the admin. draft version presented below. Entire Document (includes Appendix A&B) (26mb) Cover Title Page Table of Contents 3.1 Introduction (65kb) 3.2 Geographic Scope (192kb) 3.3 Physical Environment (167kb) 3.4 Land Cover Type Mapping (144kb) 3.5 Natural Communities (3.8mb) 3.6 Proposed Covered Species (276kb) 3.7 Species of Local Concern (168kb) 3.8 Deer Herds (80kb) 3.9 References (117kb) Figure 3-1 Planning Area HCP-NCCP Figure 3-2 Planning Area Topography Figure 3-3 Mean Annual Air Temp Figure 3-4 Frost Free Days Figure 3-5 Mean Annual Precipitation Figure 3-6 Hydrologic Areas Figure 3-7 Geology of Butte County Figure 3-8 Soils of the Planning Area Figure 3-9 Hydrologic Features Figure 3-10 Oroville State Water Project Figure 3-11 Covered Natural Communities Figure 3-12 Land Cover Types Figure 3-13 Oak, Savanna Communities Figure 3-14 Grassland Communities Figure 3-15 Riparian Comminities Figure 3-16 Natural Wetland Communities Figure 3-17 Aquatic Natural Communities Figure 3-18 Ag Natural Communities Administrative Draft Appendix A: Covered Species Accounts (May 25, 2007) Appendix A Entire Document (15mb) Cover Introduction Bald Eagle Swainson's Hawk Greater Sandhill Crane CA Black Rail W. Yellow-billed Cuckoo Bank Swallow Giant Garter Snake CA Tiger Salamander CA Red-legged Frog Central Valley Steelhead Chinook Salmon Spring Run Chinook Salmon Winter Run Chinook Salmon Fall Run Valley Elderberry LH Beetle Conservancy Fairy Shrimp Vernal Pool Fairly Shrimp Vernal Pool Tadpole Shrimp Hoover's Spurge Butte Co. Meadowfoam Hairy Orcutt Grass Greene's Tuctoria White-Tailed Kite Western Burrowing Owl Yellow-breasted Chat Tri-colored Blackbird CA Horned Lizard NW Pond Turtle W. Spadefoot Toad Sacramento Splittail Green Sturgeon River Lamprey Ferris' Milkvetch Lesser Saltacale Aharts Dwarf Rush Butte Co. Checkerbloom Butte Co. Golden Clover American Peregrine Falcon Foothill Yellow-legged Frog Administrative Draft Appendix B: Natural Community Species List (May 25, 2007) Appendix B Entire Document (500kb) Cover Introduction Table B-1 Plants Table B-2 Wildlife