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13 <br /> <br />2.1 BIOTIC HABITATS/LAND USES <br /> <br />Biotic habitats and land uses identified on the site include Agricultural/Rangeland, Intermittent <br />Drainage, and Seasonal Wetland (including both isolated and non-isolated wetlands) (Figure 4). <br />These are described in greater detail below. <br />2.1.1 Agricultural/Rangeland <br />Agricultural/Rangeland is the largest biotic habitat of the site. The flatter portion of this habitat <br />in the western portion of the site is used to grow hay. The hay is cut and raked, and then cattle <br />are moved into this portion of the ranch to eat the cut hay. This portion of the site is disced on a <br />regular basis. The upper eastern portion of this habitat is used only as rangeland. Vegetation <br />does not appear to differ significantly between the Agricultural and Rangeland portions of this <br />habitat. Vegetation of the Agricultural/Rangeland habitat includes wild oats (Avena sp.), soft <br />chess (Bromus hordeaceus), red brome (Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens), Italian thistle <br />(Carduus pycnocephalus), yellow star thistle (Centaurea solstitialis), bull thistle (Cirsium <br />vulgare), bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), dove weed (Croton setigerus), goldenbush <br />(Ericameria sp.), filaree (Erodium sp.), bristly ox tongue (Helminthotheca echioides), tarweed <br />(Hemizonia sp.), summer mustard (Hirschfeldia incana), barley (Hordeum marinum), willowleaf <br />lettuce (Lactuca saligna), prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola), bird’s foot trefoil (Lotus <br />corniculatus), curly dock (Rumex crispus), milk thistle (Silybum marianum), and purple salsify <br />(Tragopogon porrifolius), to name a few. <br />In addition, an agricultural ditch exists along the northern site boundary that is approximately <br />one to one and a half feet deep, and from one and a half to two feet wide. This ditch is fully <br />vegetated with the same upland vegetation occurring in the rest of the Agricultural/Rangeland <br />habitat with the addition of a small amount of sowthistle (Sonchus asper). The ditch does not <br />appear to hold water for any length of time and appears to transport runoff from intermittent <br />drainages of the site to a roadside ditch along Alisal Street which eventually is carried under <br />Alisal Street via a culvert to a riparian area on the other side. This feature has been completely <br />dry during all of LOA’s site visits. <br />