Ecosystems Advisory Committee - Desert Tortoise Council

Ecosystems Advisory Committee

EAC Correspondence

Click on the links below to view correspondence from the Desert Tortoise Council’s Ecosystem Advisory Committee.

2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013

2018 Correspondence

Arizona Department of Transportation’s Draft Application for Assumption of Federal Highway Administration’s National Environmental Policy Act Responsibilities

Environmental Impact Report for the San Bernardino County Master Storm Water System Maintenance Programs

Mojave National Preserve Management Plan for Developed Water Resources Environmental Assessment

Dry Lake East Designated Leasing Area DOI-BLM-NV-S010-2017-0131-EA

Draft Buckeye Hills Travel Management Plan, Pinal and Maricopa Counties, Arizona

Halloran Springs Communication Site Lease (DOI-BLM-CA-D090-2018-0011-EA, CACA-053336) Environmental Assessment

Notice of Preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Proposed Daggett Solar Power Facility, San Bernardino County, CA

Scoping Comments on Joint Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIS/EIR) for the RE Crimson Solar Project and Input on Potential Plan Amendments to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan

Comments on 2017/2018 Grant Applications (Off Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation)

Letter of Support for the Preliminary Grant Application by the Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee for Western Expansion Area Restoration

Interconnect Towers Ash Hill Communications Site (DOI-BLM-CA-D090-2016-0007-EA)

Do not sign Letter of Intent for the Cadiz Pipeline

Scoping comments to consider changes to the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan

Paradise Valley Specific Plan Draft Environmental Impact Report No. 506

Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Military Land Withdrawal Legislative Environmental Impact Statement (LEIS)

Scoping Comments for the Lower Colorado River Travel Management Plan

Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Lower Centennial Complex

DOI-BLM-CA-D080-2018-003, CalNev Pipeline Dig JT-34440 and JT-38470

2017 Correspondence

23 February 2017: Letter to the National Governors’ Association on Protecting the Endangered Species Act

15 March 2017: Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)Translocation Throughout the Species Range within the Southern Nevada District and Caliente Field Office, Nevada, DOI-BLM-NV-S000-2017-0002-EA, Population Augmentation (BLM 2017)

20 June 2017: Spectrum Article on Desert Tortoises in the Northern Corridor in Red Cliffs National Reserve, Utah

21 June 2017: Coalition Letter on Infrastructure Legislation

28 June 2017: Green Planet EA for St. Philip Placer Mine – El Paso Mountains, Kern Co., California

20 July 2017: San Bernardino County General Plan Renewable Energy and Conservation Element

Related Documents

November 2016 Report: Mohave Ground Squirrel 2016 Trapping Results for 11 Grids in the “Bowling Alley,” San Bernardino County, California

1 November 2016: Renewable Energy and Conservation Element of the San Bernardino County General Plan

4 December 2017: Scoping comments for an Environmental Assessment for testing, evaluation, and training activities at the Cuddeback Range at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

24 December2017: Notice of Intent to Prepare and Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Impact Report for the Edwards Air Force Base Solar Enhanced Lease Use Project

2016 Correspondence

22 January 2016: Scoping comments of the Final Stump Springs Translocation Plan

12 February 2916: Pakoon Springs Public Use Environmental Assessment (DOI-BLM-AZ-A030-2016-0004-EA)

18 February 2016: Environmental Assessment DOI-BLM-CA-D050-2016-0006 for Sampling the Purple Sage Placer Claim Plan of Operations CACA-56420

30 March 2016: Comments regarding a well permit for the Soda Mountains Solar Project for Supervisor Lovingood, San Bernardino, CA

30 March 2016: Comments regarding a well permit for the Soda Mountains Solar Project for Supervisor Ramos, San Bernardino, CA

18 April 2016: Sign-on letter to Nissin Foods regarding its Cup Noodles “wildlife” flavors

5 July 2016: Interstate 11 Corridor – Nogales to Wickenburg

6 July 2016: Camino Solar Project

29 July 2016: Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining hearing about shortened public comment periods in BLM’s Planning 2.0 rule

22 September 2016: Pakoon Springs Public Use Environmental Assessment (DOI-BLM-AZ-A030-2016-0004-EA)

Related Document: Abella and Berry, 2016: Enhancing and Restoring Habitat for the Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

12 October 2016: Department of Defense’s intent to withdraw 300,000± acres of Desert National Wildlife Refuge for use by the Air Force

24 October 2016: Scoping comments for proposal to renew Ord Mountain Allotment grazing lease

November 2016 Report: Mohave Ground Squirrel 2016 Trapping Results for 11 Grids in the “Bowling Alley,” San Bernardino County, California

1 November 2016: Renewable Energy and Conservation Element of the San Bernardino County General Plan

10 December 2016: Department of Defense’s intent to withdraw 300,000± acres of Desert National Wildlife Refuge for use by the Air Force

2015 Correspondence

7 January 2015: Dry Lake Solar Energy Center (Dry Lake SEZ Parcels 5 & 6) Environmental Assessment (NEPA#: DOI-BLM-NV-S010-2014-0126-EA; Case file #: N-93337)

7 January 2015: Harry Allen Solar Energy Center Project Environmental Assessment (NEPA#: DOI-BLM-NV-S010-2014-0125-EA; Case file #: N-93321)

7 January 2015: Playa Solar Project (Dry Lake SEZ Parcels 2, 3, & 4) Environmental Assessment (NEPA#: DOI-BLM-NV-S010-2014-0127-EA; Case file #: N-93306)

Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices Draft Resource Management Plan/Draft Environmental Impact Statement

5 March 2015: Comments on San Bernardino County’s Renewable Energy and Conservation Element Framework: Purpose, Values and Standards (Framework)

16 March 2015: Comment on Indian Wells Valley Land Use Management Plan Draft EIR/EIS (IWVLMP)

15 April 2015: Nomination for a Soda Mountains Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC)

31 May 2015: Defenders of Wildlife letter entitled “Mohave ground squirrel recommendations for DRECP Land Use Plan Amendment”

3 June 2015: West Mojave Route Designation Final Comment Letter and Table

16 June 2015: Scoping comments on the Lucerne Valley Solar One Project

28 June 2015: Formal comments concerning the Aiya Solar Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement

18 September 2015: Comments on Revisions to Endangered Species Act Petition Regulations

20 September 2015: Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Small Mining Operations in Ridgecrest Resource Area

24 September 2015: Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative 2.0

15 October 2015: Comments on the Beaver Dam Wash and Red Cliffs National Conservation Area Draft Resource Management Plans

7 November 2015: Notice of Preparation for Specific Plan No. 339, General Plan Amendment No. 686, Change of Zone No. 6915 (Paradise Valley), EIR No. 506

11 December 2015: Comments on Rands Area Arsenic Cleanup

28 December 2015: Scoping comments for Eagle Crest Pumped Storage Project in Riverside County

2014 Correspondence

6 January 2014: Draft EIR for the Fremont Valley Preservation Project by AquaHelio Resources, LLC

6 January 2014: Nominations of public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management for National Conservation Land status

8 January 2014: Review of focused desert tortoise surveys for Searchlight Wind Energy Project

20 January 2014: Addendum to the Environmental Impact Report for the Beacon Photovoltaic Solar Project, Springbok Solar Farm 1 and Oryx Solar Farm

21 January 2014: Fremont Valley Preservation Project by AquaHelio Resources, LLC: Public Workshop of 1/20/2014

2 February 2014: Fremont Valley Preservation Project by AquaHelio Resources, LLC. Formal Comments

1 March 2014: Formal comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Soda Mountain Solar project (CACA 49584)

7 March 2014: Desert Tortoise Council Support for Keeping the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center Operational

12 March 2014: Proposed release of captive desert tortoises into the Piute-Eldorado Critical Habitat Unit, Clark County, Nevada

13 March 2014: Desert Tortoise Council Support for Keeping the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center Operational

20 March 2014: Moapa Solar Energy Center, Final Environmental Impact Statement

1 April 2014: Decision Record and Rationale for (DOI-BLM-NV-S010-2014-0032-DNA) – Hidden Valley Tortoise Translocation

4 April 2014: Support for Western Watersheds Project’s “Appeal and Request for Stay of the Decision Record and Rationale for The Eldorado Valley Tortoise Translocation (DOI-BLM-NV-S0l0-2014-0038-DNA)”

25 May 2014: Formal comments on the proposed Silurian Valley Solar Project

16 June 2014: Exploratory Drilling of the Dragonfly Placer Claims by Glacial Minerals, Inc. in El Paso Mountains, Kern County, California

27 July 2014: Proposed translocation of desert tortoises from the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center into Stump Springs Translocation Area in southern Nevada

2 September 2014: Scoping comments on the proposed Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for the Coolwater-Lugo Transmission Project, Application No. A.13-08-023

7 October 2014: Soda Mountain Solar and Silurian Valley Solar Project

31 October 2014: Comments on the Draft “Best Management Practices for Ranching in Sonoran Desert Tortoise (Gopherus morafkai) Habitat in Arizona”

7 November 2014: Soda Mountain Solar and Silurian Valley Solar Project

2013 Correspondence

5 February 2013: public meeting on proposed project: Marisol Energy

20 March 2014: Joint notice of preparation and notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for Omya Sentinel and Butterfield Quarries Expansion Project

11 April 2013: Rehabilitate Katherine Landing Access Road EA

16 April 2013: Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP)

1 June 2013: Shared use of Johnson Valley by Marine Corps and off-highway vehicle recreationists

11 September 2013: Vehicle route designation on the Arizona Strip

23 September 2013: Comments from the Desert Tortoise Council to San Bernardino County Supervisors James Ramos and Robert Lovingood

27 September 2013: Public Input on the TransWest Express Transmission Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement

11 October 2013: Moapa Solar Energy Center, Environmental Impact Statement

16 October 2013: Maricopa Solar Park Scoping

19 October 2013: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for the Silver State Solar South Project

20 October 2013: Protest of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Silver State South Solar Energy Project

Introductory Course

Introduction to Desert Tortoises and Field Techniques is a two-day basic course that includes important information on ecology, habitat preferences, life history, health, physiology, and threats; applicable state and federal laws and required permits; and two field sessions on surveys and identification of tortoises and tortoise sign.

The 2018 Introductory Tortoise Course in Ridgecrest, CA will take place on Saturday and Sunday, November 3 and 4 in the Pinnacles Room at the Kerr-Magee Center.