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,_.1°•—Altacel Audubon Se618g1 Board of Bb`ectafs to maRv
eppesesthoProject due toConcerns for amorous
awan habitats_
• Bird species protected by the State that were observed on
r or likely to use the proposed project site and proximate
.1 habitats(Little Chico Creek, Angel Slough) include, State
Threatened Sandhi➢ Crane (Crus Conadetrsis),
Swainson's Hawk (Bureo swainsont), and Black Rail
('Laterallus jamaicerrsis). State Species of Concern include
Nortbern HarrierCircus
( cyaneus), Merlin (Falco
columbaris), Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularfa),
Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperr), Ferruginous Hawk
(Buten regalis), Golden Eagle (Aquila ehrysoetos) and
Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia).
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' Wildlife surveys was cmtducted over 10 years ego. and uo mpo t was
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ion mcaca only call for spring "psnconstruction."
It we allow this project, surveys should be auanded at least into summa and
fall to evaltase the full suite of f num impacted by do project.
".4 • t California Natural Diversity Database (CNDBB) and Califanua Depentment of
Fish mid (lame (CDFO) lists were reviewed in 2002. These lists are not
t'4 ooWchmsl'vc and CNUDB states, "that the CNUDB should not be used "as
w exhaustive and comwehcnaiw iuventM of ell nut species end nanoid
commumitiea statewide." (CN DDB website 2007).
The project will displace listed wildlife due to, gravel mining end likely ghostly
increase wildlife mortalities due to truck mdyia, es grovel is bottled to the
SkYway plan (routes from origin to destittetimr will alrwt local tma'ic with
85% of the gavel trucks running through the City cf (,'bic% I I howl of
OWIAiM S days per week end possibly on Saturduys).
The project will remove riparian vegetation (a diminishod habiud type),
tpassland.erWlartd. aad eek woodland that provide valuable resources for eu
obundaace of wildlife,
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should be sacrlflced for
Baldwin's "enulronmental" and
economic "public good" P
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I still hope to
raph unusual
species and wild places in
the county where I Ince P
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