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i. APPENDIX E. SPECIAL-STATUS SPECIES <br /> ` Listing <br /> Status Covered <br /> Scientific Name USFWS/ Potential for Project to by <br /> Common Name CDFG/CNPS General Habitat Impact SJMSCP <br /> ` Gambella FENCE,CFP/- Occurs in undisturbed open, Unlikely.No suitable habitat No <br /> (=Cmtaphytus)sila - valley and foothill grasslands, occurs in the project area. <br /> Blunt-nosed valley saltbush scrub,and Presumed extirpated from <br /> leopard lizard alkali playa communities of San Joaquin County <br /> the San Joaquin Valley, (SJMSCP) <br /> Carrizo Plain,and Cuyama <br /> Valley. <br /> Masticophis flagellum FSC/CSC/— Occurs in undisturbed open, Unlikely. No suitable habitat Yes <br /> ruddocki dry,vegetative associations occurs in the project area. <br /> ` San Joaquin with little or no tree cover. In <br /> coachwhip the western San Joaquin <br /> (=whipsnake) Valley,it occurs in valley <br /> grassland and saltbush scrub <br /> r, associations. Dependent on <br /> mammals for burrows and <br /> prey. <br /> Phrynosoma FSC/CSC/— In a variety of undisturbed Low. Limited potential habitat Yes <br /> .� coronatum frontale habitats,most commonly in occurs in the Proposed <br /> California homed lowlands and sandy washes Project area. <br /> lizard with scattered low bushes. <br /> Requires open areas for <br /> r sunning,bushes for cover, <br /> patches of loose soil for <br /> burial,and abundant <br /> ant/insect prey. <br /> ` Thamnophis gigas FT/CT/— Generally inhabits marshes, Unlikely. No suitable aquatic Yes <br /> Giant garter snake sloughs,ponds,slow-moving habitat exists in the project <br /> streams,ditches,and rice area. <br /> fields which have water from <br /> early spring through mid-fall, <br /> emergent vegetation(such as <br /> cattails and bulrushes),open <br /> areas for sunning,and high <br /> ground for hibernation and <br /> escape cover. <br /> Birds <br /> Agelaius tricolor FSC/CSC/-- Largely endemic to California, Medium. Potentially suitable Yes <br /> Tricolored most numerous in the Central breeding habitat exists in hay <br /> blackbird Valley and nearby vicinity. or silage crops in the <br /> Requires open water, Proposed Project area. <br /> protected nesting substrate, During 2005 field surveys,the <br /> and foraging grounds within species was detected <br /> ` vicinity of the nesting colony. breeding in a pond within a <br /> Nests in dense thickets of gravel mining operation about <br /> cattails,tules,willow, 250m west of the Proposed <br /> blackberry,wild rose,hay and Project area. <br /> silage crops,and other tall <br /> herbs near fresh water. <br /> Athena cuniculada FSC/CSC/-- Forages in open plains, Medium. Potentially suitable Yes <br /> hypugaea grasslands and prairies; nesting and foraging habitat <br /> Western typically nests in abandoned exists in the project area. A <br /> ` burrowing owl small mammal burrows. few burrows occur on the <br /> bank of Hospital Creek and on <br /> the margin of several fields. <br /> Fields with annual crops could <br /> r. be used for foraging. The <br /> species was reported from <br /> less than five miles to the <br /> west-southwest of the project <br /> L area in 2002. <br /> V RMC Pacific Vernalis Quarry Mining and Reclamation Project E.I-5 FSA 203015 <br /> I` Daft EIR May 2006 <br />