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<br />Sequoia Ecological Consulting, Inc. <br />CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum <br />Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction <br />November 2025 <br />A-62 <br /> <br /> <br />MITIGATION MEASURES APPLICABLE? <br />(Y/N) TIMING IMPLEMENTING <br />ENTITY <br />VERIFYING/ <br />MONITORING <br />ENTITY <br />the time of treatment (e.g., whether the plants are in a dormant, <br />vegetative, or flowering state), the individual species’ vulnerability to <br />the treatment method being used, and environmental conditions and <br />terrain <br />o Consideration of factors such as site hydrology, changes in light, edge <br />effects, and potential introduction of invasive plants and noxious weeds <br />may inform an appropriate buffer size and shape <br />• Treatments may be conducted within this buffer if the potentially affected <br />special-status plant species is a geophytic, stump-sprouting, or annual species <br />and the treatment can be conducted outside of the growing season (e.g., after it <br />has completed its annual life cycle) or during the dormant season using only <br />treatment activities that would not damage the stump, root system, or other <br />underground parts of special-status plants or destroy the seedbank <br />• Treatments would be designed to maintain the function of special-status plant <br />habitat <br />o For example, for a fuel break proposed in treatment areas occupied by <br />special-status plants, if the removal of shade cover would degrade the <br />special-status plant habitat despite the requirement to physically or <br />seasonally avoid the special-status plant itself, habitat function would be <br />diminished, and the treatment would need to be modified or precluded <br />from implementation <br />• No fire ignition (nor use of associated accelerants) would occur within the <br />special-status plant buffer