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Furthermore, Mitigation Measure B will elevate the habitat quality of the lower Hospital Creek basin and flood plain well F , above its current degraded state and insure its preservation as a viable wildlife habitat and movement corridor. F, While on-site mitigation measures are not appropriate for all is a situation where it appears proposed development sites, than PP to be by far the most sensible and productive approach. Indeed, without any intervention from the private sector, the highly' r degraded habitat conditions both along the Hospital. Creek course ' and on old 1950's quarry site would persist for decades to come. Instead, as a result the proposed limited gravel mining project on part of this site, the newly protected creek flood plain area : will immediately begin its recovery process, and the small valley system created by the quarrying operation will eventually return to annual grassland. As the recovery of both areas proceeds, x wandering SJKFs from the Lone Tree Creek population may once again find habitat conditions in the lower Hospital Creek drainage suitable for foraging or even denning and breeding. Habitat enhancement and preservation is the key to the recovery of most endangered and threatened species. The proposed Lower. Hospital Creek Plan would be the first privately funded recovery'. effort for former SJKF habitat in the northern range of this species and a most positive step in the right direction. REFERENCES USED IN REPORT PREPARATION Annual Report on the Status of California's State Listed z Threatened and endangered Plants and Animals. The Resources Agency, Sacramento. 1994 �Et Bechard, M. 1982. Effect of vegetative cover on foraging site li FI. f selection by Swainson's Hawk. Condor 84: 153-159. Bell, H. 1994. Habitat requirements and distribution of the San Joaquin kit fox in its northern range. Master's Thesis, California State University, Hayward. Barrett, R.H. 1983 . Smoked aluminum track plates for determining furbearer distribution and relative abundance. California Fish and Game, 69 (3) :188-190. Bloom, Peter H. 1980. The status of the Swainson's Hawk in California, 1979. California Department of Fish and Game and the Bureau of Land Management, Sacramento, CA. Detrich, P.J. 1986 . Status of the Swainson's Hawk (Bu eo 14 swa ' nso in the Upper Sacramento Valley. California State a n� ) PP i University, Chico. EIP Associates, 1993 . Draft Habitat Conservation Plan - San Joaquin Kit Fox - Western San Joaquin County. San Joaquin County Department, Stockton Community Development , California. I f 18