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New! Current
Status:
We are currently seeking comments from the public regarding our draft Refuge goals and preliminary management alternatives. If after reviewing the range of alternatives currently under consideration, you feel there are additional issues or management proposals that should be included, please let us know. To ensure that your comments are considered prior to the completion of the draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and environmental assessment, please provide your comments to the Refuge Planner by April 28, 2008. Note: The comment period has been extended!
After considering your comments, the management alternatives will be refined and then fully described in the draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP). The potential environmental consequences of implementing the various alternatives will be analyzed in an accompanying environmental assessment (EA). The draft CCP and EA should be available in summer 2008, at which time we will again be soliciting your comments.
Draft Refuge goals are presented in Planning Update 3 and are provided online here:
DRAFT REFUGE GOALS
The preliminary management alternatives proposed for evaluation in the draft CCP and EA are summarized in Planning Update 3 and are provided in detail online here:
PRELIMINARY MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES
Included in the discussion of alternatives are various designated trail system proposals. Maps illustrating the different trail alternatives are available online here:
TRAIL SYSTEM ALTERNATIVES
If you have trouble accessing these maps, please contact the Refuge Planner for assistance.
Project Background:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
is developing a Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP)
and an environmental assessment (EA) for the San Diego
NWR, which includes the Otay-Sweetwater Unit and the Vernal
Pools Stewardship Project. An overview of the CCP process
is provided in Planning
Update 1.
Public scoping began in May 2006
and public scoping meetings were held June 14 and June
15, 2006. The results of the initial scoping process
are summarized in Planning
Update 2. You can also view the full array of comments received during the initial scoping process online here:
Please allow for file download time. (Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view).
We would like to thank everyone who has participated in
the process to this point and we encourage your continued
participation.
If you have additional comments or recommendations
about how the San Diego NWR should be managed over the
next 15 years, you can send them by mail to:
Victoria
Touchstone, Refuge Planner
San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex
6010 Hidden Valley Road
Carlsbad, CA 92011
Purpose
of CCP:
As part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, the San
Diego NWR is required to have a CCP in place to guide
the management of fish, wildlife, plants, habitats, and
public uses for a period of 15 years.
Victoria Touchstone, Refuge Planner
San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex
6010 Hidden Valley Road
Carlsbad, CA 92011
Phone: 760-431-9440 ex. 349
Fax: 760-930-0256
Jill Terp, Refuge Manager
San Diego National Wildlife Refuge
P.O. Box 746
Jamul, CA 91935
Phone: 619-468-9245 ex. 226
Fax: 619-468-9249
Last Updated: March 2008
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