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' Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.F-1 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project F. VEGETATION AND WILDLIFE This section updates the discussion in the 2013 EIR and addresses the impacts of the 2018 Expansion Project to existing or potentially occurring biological resources. It uses a "worst- case" baseline, comparing project impacts to existing on-the-ground conditions. As outlined in the Project Description(Section III),the proposed additional development would allow the construction of landfill disposal cells and landfilling operations within those cells on an 8.7-acre parcel that lies in the northeast portion of the site within the currently permitted landfill boundary. In addition, approximately 8.6 acres of landfill disposal area is proposed to be added in the south area by shifting the existing disposal footprint to the north and realigning 3,000 feet ' of the South Fork of South Littlejohns Creek to the southern and eastern boundary of the site. With the exception of the proposed realignment of the creek,the proposed work in the south expansion area will primarily occur in an area used as the landfill's composting and materials ' recovery facility(MRF) facility. The impacts and mitigations in this section replace those in Section IV.H of the 2013 EIR. Setting Methodology ' Identification of the potentially occurring special-status biological resources for the proposed project is partially based on the previous analysis and a biological assessment included in the ' Draft and Final Forward Landfill Expansion EIR (2013) and the following key supporting biological studies: ' • Fisheries habitat assessment of the North Branch of the South Fork of Littlejohn's Creek (A.A. Rich Associates 2002) • Fisheries survey and a wetland delineation the South Branch of the South Fork of Littlejohn's Creek(Monk&Associates 2007) • A pilot bird-control program conducted in March and April 2010, and a permanent gull control program initiated in September 2010,to restrict the congregation of feeding gulls ' at the landfill by use of falcons and pyrotechnics(Davis 2013) • The San Joaquin County Multi-Species Habitat Conservation and Open Space Plan (SJMSCP) (SJCOG 2000) ' The information presented herein is intended to update and supplement that provided in the earlier assessments and to bring current the analysis of impacts, reflecting recent changes in status of endangered, threatened, and rare species, as well as State and federal legislation ' regarding biological resources. Updated information on special—status plant and animal species was compiled through review of the following sources: • The California Natural Diversity Database (CNDDB 2018) • The California Native Plant Society Online Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants (CNPS 2018) • Burrowing habitat assessment/surveys(WRA 2017,2015,2014, 2013). 0 Surveys for western gulls (WRA 2017,2014,2013)