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31 <br />Table 2: Special status species that could occur in the project vicinity. <br />ANIMALS (adapted from CDFW 2017 and USFWS 2017) <br />Species Listed as Threatened or Endangered under the State and/or Federal Endangered Species Acts <br />Common and scientific names Status General habitat description *Occurrence in the study area <br />Callippe silverspot butterfly <br /> (Speyeria callippe callippe) <br />FE Native grasslands. Host <br />plant is Viola pedunculata. <br />Absent. A survey for the larval host <br />plant, Viola pedunculata was conducted <br />on all areas of the site proposed for <br />development or slope stabilization and a <br />minimum 75-foot buffer in May 2017 <br />and none were observed. These areas of <br />the site also do not support significant <br />populations of nectar plants for this <br />species, therefore, these areas do not <br />provide habitat for this species and it is <br />presumed absent. <br />California tiger salamander <br /> (Ambystoma californiense) <br />FT, CT Breeds in vernal pools and <br />stock ponds of central <br />California; adults aestivate in <br />grassland habitats adjacent to <br />the breeding sites. <br />Possible. No suitable breeding habitat <br />is on the site for the species; however, <br />this species has been documented <br />breeding in wetlands and ponds of the <br />adjacent golf course property within <br />their East Side Conservation Area, and <br />there are five breeding ponds reported <br />in the CNDDB that are within 1.2 miles <br />from the site (one of which has been <br />extirpated as a breeding site due to an <br />earthen dam failure. Therefore, <br />although no breeding habitat exists on <br />the site, it is possible that CTS that <br />breed in the vicinity estivate on the site. <br />California red-legged Frog <br /> (Rana aurora draytonii) <br />FT, CSC Rivers, creeks and stock <br />ponds of the Sierra foothills <br />and coast range, preferring <br />pools with overhanging <br />vegetation. <br />Unlikely. Dr. Mark Jennings, a <br />USFWS-approved specialist in <br />amphibian survey and habitat <br />evaluation, conducted a focused habitat <br />assessment for CRLF in 2004 for <br />Olberding and found the site to be <br />unsuitable for CRLF. Dr Jennings <br />conducted a follow up herpetological <br />survey on the Spotorno site in January <br />2015 at LOA’s request and confirmed <br />that existing site conditions had not <br />changed and that the site provides no <br />breeding habitat for this species. The <br />nearest documented occurrence in the <br />CNDDB is approximately three miles <br />southeast of the site and CRLF critical <br />habitat is more than two and a half <br />miles to the southeast of the site, <br />however, Marcia Grefsrud/CDFW has <br />indicated that CRLF have been detected <br />in a pond on the adjacent golf course <br />site. The upland grasslands of the <br />project site appear to provide poor <br />foraging and movement habitat for this <br />species and it appears unlikely they <br />would occur on the site.