Chapter 3 - Natural Resources - Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

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MCB Camp Pendleton, California The final rule designating approximately 11,695 ac in 6 units as critical habitat for the arroyo toad was published on 13 April 2005 (USFWS 2005b). All essential lands in two units that include portions of Camp Pendleton: Unit 11- San Mateo Creek and San Onofre Creek Basins, San Diego and Orange Counties and Unit 12- Lower Santa Margarita River Basin, San Diego County, were either excluded from critical habitat designation under Section 4(b)(2) or Section 4(a)(3) of the ESA. A recovery plan has been approved for this species (USFWS 1999a). On 13 October 2009, a revised critical habitat designation totaling 109,110 acres in Monterey, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, and San Diego Counties was proposed but not been finalized by the USFWS. All lands within MCB Camp Pendleton (including the leased lands) were excluded from the proposed revised critical habitat designation due to the benefits afforded to the arroyo toad by the management measures described in the approved INRMP (USFWS 2009i). Since the toad was listed, analysis of allozyme data has been found to support the recognition of Bufo californicus as a separate species from Bufo microscaphus, and phylogenetic analysis of comparative anatomical and molecular genetic data for amphibians found that the Nearctic taxa of Bufo should be separated and renamed as the genus Anaxyrus. In turn, Bufo californicus was renamed Anaxyrus californicus. The revised scientific name has been accepted by the Committee on Standard English and Scientific Names of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, The Herpetologists' League, and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, however, official recognition by the USFWS has been proposed, but not finalized (USFWS 2009i). California Status The CDFG listed the arroyo toad as a species of special concern in California (CDFG 2005). Regional Status The arroyo toad is a covered species in the following southern California NCCP documents: • Coachella Valley Multi-Species HCP. • MHCP, City of Carlsbad Habitat Management Plan. • MSCP, City of Chula Vista Subarea Plan. • MSCP, City of La Mesa Subarea Plan. • MSCP, City of Poway Subarea Plan. • MSCP, City of San Diego Subarea Plan. • MSCP, County of San Diego Subarea Plan. • Orange County Central/Coastal NCCP/HCP. • Orange County Southern Subregion NCCP/HCP. • SDG&E. • Western Riverside MSHCP. 3-64 Chapter 3 – Natural Resources
Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan [March 2012 - Update] MCBCP Status The arroyo toad receives programmatic protection from training and other Base activities within the riparian component of its habitat through programmatic instructions provided to users and residents of the Base as part of the Riparian Ecosystem Conservation Plan (Appendix C) and Base Order P3500.1M (Range and Training Regulations). The Base is currently in consultation with USFWS regarding Upland habitat basewide including habitat occupied by the arroyo toad. Management details, survey information, etc., for the arroyo toad are located in Appendix F, Section F.1. DISTRIBUTION Global Endemic to southern California, arroyo toads were found historically in coastal and some desert drainages from Monterey County, California south to San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico (Sweet 1993). Arroyo toad populations in California persist in headwater areas of streams in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego counties. The majority of the remaining populations in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties are in Los Padres National Forest (five viable populations); Sespe Creek in Ventura County has the largest known population; and other populations occur in the Sisquoc, Santa Ynez, and upper and lower Piru drainages (USFWS 1994e). Regional Arroyo toads occur in San Diego County along the Santa Margarita River, San Onofre Creek, San Mateo Creek, Sweetwater River, Vallecitos Creek, San Luis Rey River, San Dieguito River/Santa Ysabel Creek, Tijuana River/Cottonwood Creek, San Diego River, Otay River, and San Felipe Creek drainage basins. Arroyo toads are present in Orange County along the Santa Ana River, San Juan Creek, and San Mateo Creek drainage basins. Arroyo toads are found in Riverside County along the Whitewater River, Santa Ana River, San Juan Creek, San Mateo Creek, and Santa Margarita River drainage basins. The species is also found in San Bernardino County in the Mojave River drainage basin, and in Imperial County in the Pinto Wash drainage basin (USFWS 1999a). FIGURE 3-31. ARROYO TOAD LOCATIONS Chapter 3 – Natural Resources 3-65
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