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ANE-3106449701 : 4- 8-02 : 6:29k.1I : KINKO'S UNIVERSITY- 4 Muick 418/92 Comments on Buckeye Ranch EIR 3-12 #2 Tree pruning and removal: For the purposes of the Management Plan the Ranch is divided into zones. The intensive use zones, i.e. residential, roads and golf course areas, encompass about 15% of the ranch (120 acres). 0123 This is the area where "park standards" are planned and the arborist will be employed. Whenever possible dead and dying trees will- be left within intensive use zones IF they do not pose a threat to human health and safety. In the remaining 855 of the ranch, the 675 acre "natural area", all trees will complete their natural cycles. This means that dead and dying trees will C124 be left standing. Fallen trees will be left on the ground and not harvested for firewood (p 53-57 and Appendix 2, p. 1-5). 3 - 13 Landscaping. The stated point of this impact is to avoid competition with natural plant communities. Virtually no native plants, besides C125 trees, are growing on the grasslands and savannas where the owners plan to locate their homes. The restriction of home landscaping species to native trees and shrubs species list is unduly restrictive, impractical and unenforceable. More realistic, environmentally sensitive and enforceable guidelines would be to 1) adopt a list of invasive species that cannot be planted, 2) require the use of Buckeye Ranch parent stock for native trees and shrubs and 3) restrict non-local C126 and exotic species of oaks and buckeyes. This was done in the Buckeye Ranch Management Plan. On page 59, a list of restricted landscaping species list is included based on work by Dr. Elizabeth McClintock, California Academy of Science and California Native Plant Society. Dr. McClintock is an expert on invasive exotic species. If restricted plants are found on the ranch the plan states that "they will be eradicated immediately." III-112