Project Details
Title: Genetic Investigation of Listed Vernal Pool Plants and their Communities, Merced County
Summary: Reclamation?s proposed grant of $389,831 to University of California, Merced (UC Merced) through the Central Valley Project Improvement Act Habitat Restoration Program, and the Central Valley Project Conservation Program. Staff from UC Merced will conduct field surveys and develop methods for identifying vernal pool plants from environmental DNA in soil samples. The data collected would be used to improve vernal pool plant species richness estimates, develop genetic markers for the observed vernal pool plant species, and understand the population genetics of those species. Surveys would be conducted within the UC Merced Vernal Pool and Grassland Reserve.
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Dan Strait (916) 978-5052 (916) 978-5055 dstrait@usbr.gov
Status
06/19/2017FONSI signed June 16, 2017
05/12/2017Public comment period begins May 15th and ends May 19th.
List of Available Reports
File Report Title File Ext File Size
Signed FONSI .pdf 319,927 B
Environmental Assessment June 2017 .pdf 2,697,532 B