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Vernal Pool Recovery Plan

Recovery Plan for Vernal Pool Ecosystems of California and Southern Oregon

The entire recovery plan is a 35,285KB pdf file, which is too large to download over the Internet. For your convenience, we have broken the plan down into smaller pdf files.

Cover

Executive Summary 160KB
Includes preface and other preliminary material

Table of Contents & Figures 64KB

Introduction 528KB

Biology of Covered Species 1347KB
See right for individual species accounts

Recovery 684KB

Stepdown Narrative 137KB

Implementation Schedule 135KB

References 96KB

Appendices 198KB

Vernal Pool Regional Maps

Region Name Core Areas

Carrizo

(Paso Robles & Carrizo Plain)

Fig. III-2

III-2a
Central Coastal Ranges

III-2b
Paso Robles

III-2c
Carrizo Plain

Central Coast

(San Mateo to Monterey Counties)

Fig. III-3

III-3a
Coal Mine Ridge &SE SF Bay

III-3b
Fort Ord

III-3c
San Benito

III-3d
Fort Hunter-Liggett

Klamath Mountains

Fig. III-4

III-4a
Agate Desert, Table Rocks & White City

Lake-Napa

(Lake & Napa Counties)

Fig. III-5

III-5a
Boggs Lake-Clear Lake, Jordan Park, Dry Lake & Long Valley

III-5b
Diamond Mt.

III-5c
Berryessa & Napa River

Livermore

(Alameda Co.)

Fig. III-6

III-6a
Altamont Hills

Mendocino

(Mendocino Co. coast near Manchester)

Fig. III-7

III-7
Manchester

Modoc Plateau

Fig. III-8

III-8a
Northern Modoc Plateau

III-8b
Western Modoc Plateau

III-8c
Southwestern Modoc Plateau

III-8d
Southern Modoc Plateau

Northeast Sacramento Valley

Fig. III-9

III-9a
Dales

III-9b
Vina Plains & Chico

III-9c
Doe Mill, Oroville, Richvale & Palermo

III-9d
Honcut

III-9e
Sacramento NWR Llano Seco & Upper Butte Basin

Northwest Sacramento Valley

Fig. III-10


III-10a
Redding & Millville Plains

III-10b
Red Bluff

III-10c
Black Butte & Orland

San Joaquin Valley

Fig. III-11

III-11a
Caswell

III-11b
Grassland Ecological Area

III-11c
Cross Creek & Pixley

Santa Barbara

Fig. III-12

III-12a
Lake Cachuma & Ventura Co.

Solano-Colusa

(Carquinez Straits, Suisun Marsh, SW Sacramento Co. to Colusa)

Fig. III-13

III-13a
Sacramento NWR & Dolan

III-13b
Woodland & Davis Comm. Annex

III-13c
Vacaville, Jepson Prairie, Suisun Marsh, Collinsville & Montezuma Hills

III-13d
Rodeo Creek

Southeast Sacramento Valley

(Yuba to Calaveras Counties)

Fig. III-14

III-14a
Beale & Western Placer Co.

III-14b
Phoenix Field Park, Mather, Stone Lake, Cosumnes/Rancho Seco, SE Sacramento Valley & Jenny Lind

Southern Sierra Foothills

Fig. III-15

III-15a
San Joaquin, Shotgun Creek, Farmington, Waterford, Turlock & Merced

III-15b
Madera

III-15c
Table Mt., Fresno & Kings

III-15d
Cottonwood Creek, Tulare, Kaweah, Yokohi & Lake Success

Western Riverside County

Fig. III-16

III-16a
Harford Spring, Santa Rosa Plateau, Skunk Hollow & San Jacinto-Hemet

San Diego

South coast from LA Co. to Mexico

Fig. III-17

III-17a
Otay Mesa, Ramona & Tierrasanta

Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp
Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp
by Dwight Harvey

Species Accounts

Plants

All Federally-listed plants 6559KB

All state-listed & other plant species of concern 6563KB

Species Figure

Ahart's dwarf rush

II-28

alkali milk-vetch

II-23

bearded popcorn flower

II-20

Boggs Lake hedge-hyssop

II-27

Butte Co. Meadowfoam

II-8

Colusa grass

II-12

Contra Costa goldfields

II-7

Ferris' milk-vetch

II-21

few-flowered navarretia

II-5

Greene's tuctoria

II-19

hairy Orcutt grass

II-14

Hoover's spurge

II-4

Lake Co. stonecrop

II-5

legenere

II-29

little mousetail

II-31

Loch Lomond button-celery

II-5

Sacramento Orcutt grass

II-16

San Joaquin Valley Orcutt grass

II-13

slender Orcutt grass

II-15

small pincushion navarretia

II-5

Solano grass

II-20

spiny-sepaled button-celery

II-26

succulent owl's-clover

II-2

vernal pool smallscale

II-25

Animals

All Federally-listed animals 3451KB

All animal species of concern 2254KB

Species Figure

CA fairy shrimp

II-40

Conservancy fairy shrimp

II-35

Delta green ground beetle

II-34

longhorn fairy shrimp

II-36

Midvalley fairy shrimp

II-39

vernal pool fairy shrimp

II-37

vernal pool tadpole shrimp

II-38

western spadefoot toad

II-42

Last updated: May 15, 2008

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Credits: Vernal pool fairy shrimp, Dwight Harvey.

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