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Biological Resources Evaluation Report <br /> Griffith Energy Project <br /> 3.4 Special-Status Plant and Wildlife Species <br /> Methods <br /> Special-status species are defined as plants and wildlife holding a status of sensitive, threatened, <br /> endangered, rare, candidate, Species of Special Concern, Fully Protected, Watch List, or Birds of <br /> Conservation Concern as defined by CDFW, USFWS, or California Native Plant Society (CNPS). Tetra <br /> Tech conducted a literature review by reviewing CDFW's CNDDB RareFind 5 online database and CNPS' <br /> online Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California to identify special-status plant and wildlife <br /> species that may exist within a USGS 9 Quadrangle search area (CDFW 2021a, CNPS 2021). Species <br /> from the CNDDB and CNPS' online inventory that do not have habitat on the Project site are not carried <br /> forward in the analysis. <br /> Results <br /> The Project site has the potential to contain habitat for the following species: <br /> • CTS <br /> • California red-legged frog (CRLF) <br /> • California glossy snake (Arizona elegans occidentalis) <br /> • San Joaquin coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum ruddocki) <br /> • Coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii) <br /> • Grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) <br /> • Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) <br /> • Burrowing owl (BUOW) <br /> • Swainson's hawk <br /> • Northern harrier(Circus hudsonius) <br /> • California horned lark (Eremophila alpestris actia) <br /> • Loggerhead shrike <br /> • SJKF <br /> • American badger <br /> • Rare plants <br /> All CNDDB occurrences within a 2-mile buffer around the Project site are shown in Figure 4. The potential <br /> for each species to occur has been reviewed and updated based on the results of the field survey and is <br /> provided in the special-status species results section of this report. <br /> 3.5 Critical Habitat <br /> Methods <br /> The USFWS Critical Habitat Portal was reviewed to identify final and proposed Critical Habitat for Federally <br /> threatened and endangered species within the Project site and vicinity (USFWS 2021). <br /> Results <br /> The BSA is not located within designated or proposed Critical Habitat for listed plant or wildlife species. <br /> Tetra Tech, Inc. 3-2 July 2023 <br />