SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation released an Environmental Assessment for the Sand Ridge Preserve Habitat Restoration Project. Reclamation proposes to provide $254,161 to the Center for Natural Lands Management to conduct a habitat restoration project on 19-acres of the Sand Ridge Preserve. The funding would be provided through the Central Valley Project Improvement Act Habitat Restoration Program, which helps mitigate the past impacts of Reclamation's Central Valley Project on threatened and endangered species, and helps minimize future impacts.
The Preserve has been identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a recovery area and the proposed action would benefit Bakersfield Cactus and the San Joaquin Valley giant flower-loving fly. Project activities would include restoring habitats while testing different weed removal treatments, narrowing a trail, increasing the distribution of Bakersfield Cactus, monitoring and analyzing data.
The EA was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, is available at https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=33381.
Please provide comments to kflahive@usbr.gov by close of business Friday, June 22, 2018, or mail comments to Kaitlin Flahive, Bureau of Reclamation, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA, 95825.
For additional information or to request a copy of the EA, please contact Flahive at 916-978-5044 (TTY 800-877-8339) or email kflahive@usbr.gov.
Source: Bureau of Reclamation
