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Statement of Fact: This impact will be reduced by the following: 1) Design and construct a "Scottish-type"golf course. This area would be preserved in an enhancedstate in which the rodent production on thefairways could exceedthat presently occurring over the entire alternative development area. As stated in the FEIR, the Swainson'shawk is readily disturbed on its nestingsitesby human presence;however,this behavior doe snot appear to extend beyond the nesting territory to foraging sites. 2) Apply the grassland restoration plan as suggested in the Resource Plan prepared by the applicant. 3) Incorporate mitigation measures proposed in the Resource Plan for the protection of the native trees on the site. This will ensure that the mature oaks and buckeye trees of the northwest savannah area are not lost. H-3. Potentially Significant Impact: The proposed"restoration"of Tracy Lakes would greatly reduce or eliminate the water bird habitat value of two-thirds of this historic seasonal wetland site. (EIR 4.7-3) The excavation of all of North Tracy Lake and approximately half of South Tracy Lake would convertthe present seasonal wetland habitats to relatively deep,steep-sidedsmall reservoir lakes,resulting in the destructionof one of the best-known natural wetland basins in the Central Valley,the loss of winterforaging and refuge habitat,and the loss of habitat for spring and summer nesting activities and the rearing of young water birds. Finding: Changes or alterations have been required in, or incorporated into,the project which avoid or substantially lessen the significantenvironmentaleffect as identifiedin the FEIR. These mitigation measures are listed below. Statement of Fact: This impact will be reduced by the following: 1) A terrace of 50 to 100 feet will be created around the perimeter of the deepened South Tracy Lake and in portions of North Tracy Lake.The edge of the terrace will be designed to gradually slope (10:1) to the deepened lake bottom. 2) Enhance and restore Tracy Lakes by: a) not pumping out water for farming; and b) the creation of a permanent body of water by a combination of lake deepening, developmentof waterstoragecapabilitiesinthe upperJahant,and,in droughtyears, ground water-pumping. 3) Develop North Tracy Lake and the western 1/3 of South Tracy Lake as a permanent lake, for a total of 135 acres. 4) Restore and create approximately 30 acres of new riparian vegetation along the margins of Tracy Lakes. 5) Restore approximately 20 acres in created"greentree"areas in the upper arms of South Tracy Lake. 6) Develop a monitoring program,to be implementedby a competent biologist over a 5 year period,to insurethat the above objectivesare met. Specifically,the monitoring program will documentthat the cessation of grazing and the water level managementis providing proper inundation for habitat creation; that the site has developed the targeted plant 7