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Approved Date
11/16/1999
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1999-287
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Final Draft for Sebastian Area-Wide FL Scrub-Jay Habitat Conservation Plan
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~ ~ <br />� <br />�~ <br />Table 3' Gob*xtim/ Highlands Potential Scrub -Jay Habitat Lom, was generated by <br />` SES from tehv|amd |vfnnnadon obtained hun the updated City o/Sebastian Scrub - <br />Jay Areas <br />crub'JayAueao ' 8ovbod 8/27/88 and, uuhy*qvondy, updated pursuant to information <br />'~ <br />maintained by the City of Sobootian'o Growth Management Department as of <br />October 7' 1998. Tkemfnro, Table 3 provides the location and number of the <br />� <br />Sebastian Highlands scrub lots considered by the FVVS as occupied or potentially <br />occupied by Florida scrub -jays as of October 7, 1888. A total of 817 }nm in the <br />- <br />Sebastian Highlands aro idondfiod. Therefore, between July 1995 and October <br />1888' 139 lots or 3096 of ,he Sebastian Highlands scrub lots identified in July <br />1995 as occupied or potentially occupied by F|oddoanrub1uys have beef) ,o|oonod <br />bythe FVVBfor residential development. <br />L����� <br />The existing recorded data base reviewed by SES did not xvftioinot|y document the <br />. <br />extent of habitat occupancy by eowhiuyu' population status, habitat quality, o/ <br />. , <br />acreage ofrestorable scrub -jay habitat within the puWiv|y`owned |uodu proposed as <br />compensation areas subject tothis HCP. Surveys were conducted hySES biologists <br />in the summer/fall of 1998 to obtain these required data, The rnuo|m of these <br />surveys are provided below in Section 3.2. <br />A significant decline of the Sxhum|on oonubimy oubpnpo|mion has been <br />documented in the FVVS files from 1891 to 1396. The primary oou4o for this <br />population decline was reported to be habitat degradation from lack of fire o, <br />mechanical management actions [ro|and 1996). Increased vulnerability tuvehicular <br />~ <br />collisions and predators as o result of the uovom habitat fragmentation are also <br />potential factors contributing to the documented dnnUno in the Sebastian scrub -jay <br />aubpopu|wtion. pou/ reproductive success and survival vviU`io the AUooUo Coast <br />-~ <br />and Lake VVu|mu Ridge populations in 1997 was /opu,\ed to be wide-spmod and <br />' <br />was attributed to an epidemic documented axrnuo much Of the Florida xo,ub1ay <br />range (Bminingo, an(] Oddy 1398; Be|n|ngn, 1989). In uunx|da,ahon of the hnut <br />-^ <br />that habitat qooU,y within the nfb#od Sebastian Highlands scrub \vm continued to <br />decline between 1g96and 1998and that demographic success of Florida scrUb-jaY <br />~ <br />populations along the Atlantic Coast was particularly poor io 1997' SES biologists <br />determined that that on-to-dntnhabitat occupancy and habitat quality data, with an <br />| <br />emphasis on habitat quality, should be obtained within the affected Sa0oahao <br />Highlands oomb |nm in nnm/ to pcooxun|y dohno the incidental take levels and <br />sufficiency of mitigation maaxomx [)reposed under this MCP. The mav|m Of this <br />survey, ooprovided below, confirmed that families within the 5obaohon Highlands <br />landscape continue tohalost. <br />� <br />3.2 Sebastian HCP Plan Area - Population Status arid Habitat WtiUzahnn <br />� <br />Popwmivo residential development in Indian River COUntY has resulted in an <br />estimated scrub habitat |nps of approximately 901% since p^-e*o|vmvot thnno <br />34 <br />�� <br />
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