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If mitigation implemented will <br /> Potentially Significant Impacts Suggested Mitigation Measures impact be less than significant? <br /> Retain a waterfowl management specialist to design Yes <br /> and supervise the planting and management of a <br /> plant compliment in the shallow zone of South <br /> Tracy lake which produces an annual seed crop for <br /> invading rodent populations in summer and migrant <br /> water birds in winter and spring. <br /> The management plan should also include Yes <br /> specifications for the planting of visual tree screens <br /> in the northwest shoreline portion of South Tracy <br /> Lake to protect against visual disturbance from the <br /> future developed area. Design several water bird <br /> viewing blinds from which the lake can be <br /> approached from a safe "disturbance distance," but <br /> still permit viewing of its rich water bird <br /> w complement. <br /> Retain a hydrologist to design a dry year summer Yes <br /> water maintenance program for South Tracy Lake. <br /> The plan should be designed to insure that center <br /> lake water levels never drop below a minimum of <br /> five feet throughout the nesting and young rearing <br /> period(May through August). <br /> Restrict all human activity in the area of South Yes <br /> Tracy Lake during the Central Valley waterfowl <br /> wintering season (November through April). Once <br /> nesting birds are established on sequestered nest <br /> sites in May, limited use of hiking trails set back as <br /> far from the lake shore as possible may be possible. <br /> The final determination on this point should be <br /> included in the waterfowl management plan. These <br /> precautions apply to the Beaver Pond habitat as <br /> well. <br />