CVPCP FY08 Projects, 8/8/2016

Project Proposed Activity Funding

R-2

Riparian Habitat Restoration 

for Endangered Species on 

the San Joaquin River NWR 

– Arambel Unit 

(River Partners)

Contribute towards restoration of high 

quality riparian habitat on the SJNWR 

over a 3-year period. Species that will 

benefit include riparian brush rabbit, 

riparian woodrat, least Bell’s vireo, and 

valley elderberry longhorn beetle. 

Funding will restore part of Field A-1 

and all of Field A-2 only. Stanislaus 

County

$267,816

S-11

Implementation of Priority 1, 

Priority 2, and Priority 3 

Recovery Tasks for Giant 

Garter Snake –

Comparative Pathology, 

Health, and Contaminant 

Exposure within San 

Joaquin Valley & 

Sacramento Valley Giant 

Garter Snake Populations 

(Eric Hansen)

Funding will contribute towards 

assessing the role of contaminants, 

water quality, and water management in 

the health and distribution of giant 

garter snakes through determination of 

exposures to the contaminants, and 

determination of the risks associated 

with those exposures. Species that will 

benefit are the giant garter snake and 

western pond turtle. San Joaquin & 

Sacramento Valleys

$372,951

A-2

East Contra Costa Land 

Acquisition, Souza 2 

(Contra Costa County)

Funding will contribute towards 

completing acquisition of the 191-acre 

Souza 2 property of grassland and 

pond habitat. Species that will benefit 

include CA red-legged frog, CA tiger 

salamander, SJ kit fox, and Alameda 

whipsnake. Contra Costa County

$250,000

Through a 

modification to 

the 2006 CVPCP 

grant agreement

S-5

Guiding Recovery of the 

Least Bell’s Vireo in 

Restored Riparian Habitat of 

the San Joaquin Valley 

(Point Reyes Bird 

Observatory)

Funding will contribute towards 

continuing a study that will provide data 

and information necessary to manage 

for the recovery of the least Bell’s vireo 

in the vicinity of the SJRNWR by 

collecting presence, abundance, and 

nesting field data. Stanislaus County

$214,906

S-6

Assessing the Potential for 

Reintroducing San Joaquin 

Funding will contribute towards 

extending an existing CVPCP-funded 

study to identify source populations and 

 

$195,539 
Project Proposed Activity Funding

Kit Fox into Suitable 

Habitats: Implications for 

Reintroduction Success –

Project Extension and 

Expansion 

(ESRP – CSU Stanislaus)

individual kit foxes most suited for 

reintroduction into vacant or restored 

habitats, and identifying vacant lands 

that may comprise suitable kit fox 

habitat. Kern and Tulare Counties

 + 

$48,386*

 total: 

$243,925

S-12

Documenting and Predicting 

the Presence of Listed 

Vernal Pool Plants

throughout the Central 

Valley with Special Attention 

to Merced, Placer and 

Sacramento Counties

(MUSCI Natural Resource 

Assessment)

Funding will contribute towards 

developing a robust, efficient, and 

easily understood method to sample 

pools for the presence and abundance 

of selected listed plant taxa within a 

region. Species that will benefit include 

alkali milk-vetch, succulent owl’s clover, 

dwarf downingia, Boggs Lake hedgehyssop, Contra Costa goldfields, Butte 

County meadowfoam, legenere, 

pincushion navarretia, San Joaquin 

Valley orcutt grass, and Sacramento 

orcutt grass. 

Throughout the Central Valley with 

Special Attention to Merced, Placer and 

Sacramento Counties

$124,000

Project Total $1,425,212

Program Administration $220,368

Total Budget $2,354,193**

*Service contract modification

** $620,088 from the 2008 Charter Ranch project were deobligated in FY 2011 and 

used for the 2011 Elgorriaga Ranch acquisition project.