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EAC LDC Subcommittee Agenda 09/27/2007 EAC LDC Subcommittee September 27, 2007 9:30 a.m. Development Services Center Room 609 1. Review/Change to Agenda 2. Committee Discussion: Native Vegetation definition (Policy 6.1.1 (1) CCME GMP) Criteria for determining conditions for re-creating native vegetation on-site (Policy 6.1.1 (12) CCME GMP) Listed Plants LDR's (Policy 7.1.6 CCME GMP) Comments on other Policies? 3. Public Comments 4. Setting Next Meeting Date(s) 5. Adjournment In addition to the opportunity for the general public to speak during "Public Comments", any member of the general public will be allowed to speak on each Agenda item before the Committee takes any action or moves on to the next item of the Agenda. 1 EAC LDC Subcommittee September 27, 2007 9:30 a.m. Signup sheet Name E-mail address 11-)14A \Leo- 121nm Q iirl"ot4r:tier Wootiew.:11 Ctod. LA) OLszekee..1 ck 4.-f. ALL.1504 skikr(5r5-N 5,1A/ 5or1 @ I Sin'? pill//eY, Cowl 0\ /14&(.9 / f7/. 14-71- /( 1•41(ZcC, „ 7 Y La(A re VI MCC CA hP,2C/A C Cortcft VC/ VIC y.ol ie /-/.47vezict- .1/144e 0/17//i_ i)009/Afew/hy cool EAC LDC Subcommittee Meeting Summary September 27, 2007 meeting 9:30a.m. until 11:45a.m. Attendees: Judith Hushon, Allyson Swanson, Stephen Lenberger, Brian H. MacKenzie, Tim Hancock, Marco Espinar, Nicole Ryan, Lauren McCulloch, Andy Woodruff Attendees discussed EAR-based Amendments identified for discussion during the last Subcommittee meeting. Items discussed included the following. Comments on Selected LDC Amendments 7.1.6 Listed Plants Protection • Reference to listed plant species (can be set of web addresses) o DOA-regulated plant index o FWS-federal list of threatened and endangered species • Preservation rules. • Relocation for species for which reasonable. • Management Plan. Relocation of listed plants What types? Protecting habitat is most important Still need to protect listed plants in areas identified for development Micro-environment considerations Commercially exploited vs. endangered species Need to review list of plants at future meeting Post relocation report needed To greatest extent possible Consistency on interpretation of the code Have to consider sites in which to relocate to (on-site) Demonstrate ability to relocate Itemize (in EIS) Already in common in Collier County Already present in preserve on-site Should it be in the preserve? Contact common outside party to relocate plants Is it easily relocated? Can use as a case study 7.1.6 Listed Plants Protection (comments from previous meeting) Reference to listed plant species (can be set of web addresses) Preservation rules Relocation for species for which reasonable Management Plan 581.185 FS limits referencing state list of plants List of plants for Collier County to be provided by Bruce Layman/Marco Espinar, and Conservancy (Jennifer Hecker?) Allow plants to be relocated by native plant society Type of listing—commercially exploited vs. endangered Relocation on-site 6.1.1(1) Native Vegetation Definition "For the purpose of this policy, "native vegetation" is defined as a vegetative community having 25% or more canopy coverage or highest existing vegetative strata of native plant species. The vegetation retention requirements specified in this policy are calculated based on the amount of"native vegetation" that conforms to this definition." Characteristics of native plants Been in the area for a long time Low maintenance Drought and pest resistant Include both upland and wetland communities Haehle, Robert. G. and Joan Brookwell, "Native Florida Plants" Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, c. 1999. Restoration Only plant strata that existed in the plant community May contain less than 3 strata naturally Allow some natural recruitment first Allows for more plant diversity than what may be available commercially Consider listed species and extent of exotics when restoring preserves Only require supplemental size material if area was used in calculating the preservation requirement Disturbed strata Disturbed understory 25% highest strata 25% of area Need consistency Need to consider all 3 strata 6.1.1(12) Criteria for Creating Native Vegetation Onsite Native vegetation selected should represent canopy and understory plants characteristic of that soil type; consistent with adjoining areas Relocation of plants on-site for some plant species Some are more cost effective to purchase (ex: cabbage palm) Allow some natural recruitment first (2 years suggested) Need combination supplemental planting and natural recruitment Allows for more plant diversity than what may be available commercially Need proper maintenance/monitoring Required during final acceptance for PPL? When required for SDP? Need long term monitoring Bond for restoration Financial responsibility for restoration Smaller projects may be a problem Larger projects have better chance for natural recruitment /'\ Planting—extent to which heavy equipment can be used. Maintenance—how long, what types Management planning 10 foot disturbance (edge) 3/4 acre or less Small preserves also have some function for wildlife Wading and migratory bird habitat Comments on Selected LDC Amendments 7.1.6 Listed Plants Protection • Reference to listed plant species (can be set of web addresses) • Preservation rules. • Relocation for species for which reasonable. • Management Plan. J.Hushon 9/25/2007 6.1.1(1) Native Vegetation Definition "For the purpose of this policy, "native vegetation" is defined as a vegetative community having 25% or more canopy coverage or highest existing vegetative strata of native plant species. The vegetation retention requirements specified in this policy are calculated based on the amount of"native vegetation"that conforms to this definition." Characteristics of native plants Been in the area for a long time Low maintenance Drought and pest resistant Include both upland and wetland communities Haehle, Robert. G. and Joan Brookwell, "Native Florida Plants" Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, c. 1999. J.Hushon 9/25/2007 6.1.1(12) Criteria for Creating Native Vegetation Onsite Native vegetation selected should represent canopy and understory plants characteristic of that soil type; consistent with adjoining areas Planting—extent to which heavy equipment can be used. Maintenance—how long, what types Management planning J.Hushon 9/25/2007 9/27/2007 Collier County Threatened and Endangered Plants 1 Collier County LDC is currently considering draft and implementation of a list of threatened and endangered species to be protected at the local level. In order to provide comment on the issue, the Conservancy has drafted a proposed list for the county. The following document provides background information to shed light on endangered and threatened plant policy and concludes with the Conservancy's recommended list. Federal Level The US Endangered Species Act (ESA), originally enacted in 1973, was designed to protect fish, wildlife, and plants from being "rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation."' That mandate continues today as the ESA is continually revised in response to changes in population sizes of North American biotic species. The federal list of threatened and endangered plants includes 55 species that occur in the state of Florida.2 A search of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Notes of Florida's Threatened and Endangered Plants3 reveals that none of the 55 federally listed plants have been documented in Collier County. State Level Florida statute 581.185, "Preservation of native flora of Florida," establishes state regulation regarding threatened and endangered plants. With the goal of"provid[ing] recognition of those plant species native to the state that are endangered, threatened, or exploited,"4 the statute gives authority to the regulated plant index to maintain and update a list of threatened and endangered plants in the state of Florida. More specifically, it mandates that the regulated plant index and the statute be reviewed at 4- year intervals beginning in 1984 and defines plants to be included in the index as any species of plant "which is in danger of disappearing from its native habitat within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of the range of the species."5 The statute recognizes that this danger could be the result of destruction of habitat in the plant's range, overutilization, disease, predation, or other natural or manmade factors. The Regulated Plant Index was most recently updated in 2004. The list includes 483 endangered and 114 threatened plant species, as defined in Florida Statute 581.185.6 A search of these 597 listed plants using Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Notes of Florida's Threatened and Endangered Plants' yielded 129 species, 1 "The Endangered Species Act of 1973." US Fish and Wildlife Service. <http://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa.html>. Accessed 2007 Sept 18. 2"Florida's Federally Listed Plant Species." Florida Division of Forestry. <http://www.fl- dof.com/forest_management/plant_conserve_list.html>. Accessed 2007 Sept 13. 3 Coile, N. C. & M. A. Garland. 2003. Notes on Florida's Endangered and Threatened Plants. Botany Contribution No. 38, 4th ed. (PDF version). FL Dept. Agric. & Consumer Serv., Div. Plant Industry, Gainesville. 4"581.185 Preservation of native flora of Florida."The 2007 Florida Statutes. <http://ww.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm>. Accessed 2007 Sept 14. 5 Ibid. 6"Rule: 5B-40.0055 Regulated Plant Index." eRulemaking. 2004 Mar 22. Florida Administrative Weekly and Florida Administrative Code. <https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asOID=5B- 40.0055>. Accessed 2007 Sept 18. 'Coile, N. C. & M. A. Garland. 2003. Notes on Florida's Endangered and Threatened Plants. Botany Contribution No. 38, 4th ed. (PDF version). FL Dept. Agric. &Consumer Serv., Div. Plant Industry, Gainesville. 9/27/2007 Collier County Threatened and Endangered Plants 2 93 endangered and 36 threatened, that are documented to exist in Collier County. These state listed plants deserve considerable attention in a list of county protected species. Regional example: Lee County Lee County has created a county list of protected plant and animal species' that includes a potential model list of plants for Collier County. This list includes 11 plant species, all of which are included in the state's Regulated Plant Index. It is important to note that the Lee County list is separated by FLUCCS code and does not include all types of land use cover. This may account for some of the discrepancy in lists indicated below. A closer review of the Regulated Plant Index, using the database available in Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Notes of Florida's Threatened and Endangered Plants,9 yielded a total of 52 plants, 39 endangered and 13 threatened, documented in Lee County. The fact that not all of these 52 plants from the Regulated Plant Index were included in the Lee County list raises some initial questions regarding the process by which the plant list was established. Conservancy recommendations for Collier County The Conservancy recommends that in order to maintain the populations of endangered and threatened plants currently located in Collier County, the county should include all 129 plant species, 93 endangered and 36 threatened, in its list of protected plants. The Conservancy believes that it is in the best interest of all parties to include the entire state list in Collier County's list. t"'"N.4 $"Lee County List of Protected Species." Lee County Government. <http://www.lee- county.com/dcd/pdfs/listofspecies.pdf>. Accessed 14 Sept 2007. 9 Coile, N. C. & M. A. Garland. 2003. Notes on Florida's Endangered and Threatened Plants. Botany Contribution No. 38, 4th ed. (PDF version). FL Dept. Agric. & Consumer Serv., Div. Plant Industry, Gainesville. Collier County Listed Plant Species Preprared by Conservancy of Southwest Florida Scientific Name Common Name Status _Acacia tortuosa poponax Endangered Aeschynomene pratensis meadow jointvetch Endangered Aletris bracteata bracted colic-root Endangered Asclepias curtissii Curtiss' milkweed Endangered auricled spleen-wort/eared Asplenium auritum spleenwort Endangered bird's nest spleenwort/ American bird's nest fern/ Asplenium serratum wild bird's nest fern Endangered Bulbophyllum pachyrrachis rat-tail orchid Endangered Fakahatchee burmannia/ Burmannia flava Fakahatchee bluethread Endangered Calopogon multiflorus many-flowered grasspink Endangered leafless orchid/ribbon orchid/leafless bentspur Campylocentrum pachyrrhizum orchid Endangered Campyloneurum angustifolium narrow strap fern Endangered Campyloneurum costatum tailed strap fern Endangered wild-cin namon/cinnamon- Canella winteriana bark/pepper cinnamon Endangered airplant/ powdery strap Catopsis berteroniana airplant Endangered many-flowered airplant/FL Catopsis floribunda strap airplant Endangered nodding catopsis/nodding Catopsis nutans strap airplant Endangered Celtis iguanaea iguana hackberry Endangered sand dune spurge/coastal Chamaesyce cumulicola dune sandmat Endangered Cheilanthes microphylla southern lip fern Endangered greenheart/wild coffee/ Colubrina arborescens Common-snake bark/bitters Endangered moss orchid/cypressknee Cranichis muscosa helmet orchid Endangered Croton humilis pepperbush/salvia Endangered red-hair comb fern/ FL tree Ctenitis sloanei fern Endangered Ctenitis submarginalis brown-hair comb fern Endangered Cyperus floridanus FL flatsedge Endangered cow-horn orchid/cigar orchid/butterfly orchid/bee- Cyrtopodium punctatum swarm orchid Endangered Encyclia cochleata FL clamshell orchid Endangered Encyclia pygmaea dwarf epidendrum Endangered Epidendrum acunae Acuna's epidendrum Endangered Epidendrum anceps dingy-flowered epidendrum Endangered night-smelling epidendrum/ Epidendrum nocturnum night-scented epidendrum Endangered Epidendrum rigidurn rigid epidendrum Endangered Epidendrum strobiliferum matted epidendrum Endangered wild cotton/short staple Gossypium hirsutum cotton/upland cotton Endangered Fuchs' bromeliad/strap- leaved guzmania/West Guzmania monostachia Indian tufted airplant Endangered distans habenaria/ Habenaria distans hammock false rein-orchid Endangered Harrisia simpsonii red fruit prickly apple/cactus Endangered lonopsis utricularioides delicate ionopsis Endangered Jacquemontia pentantha skyblue clustervine Endangered west coast lantana/pineland Lantana depressa lantana Endangered spreading pinweed/drysand Lechea divaricata pinweed Endangered Lechea lakelae Lakela's pinweed Endangered Leochilus labiatus lipped orchid Endangered Lepanthopsis melanantha tiny orchid Endangered Everglades flax/Carter's Linum carteri flax/Small's flax Endangered tall twayblade orchid/tall liparis/pantropical widelip Liparis nervosa orchid Endangered hanging clubmoss/hanging Lycopodium dichotomum fir-moss Endangered Lythrum flagellare lowland loosestrife Endangered Maxillaria crassifolia hidden orchid Endangered Maxillaria parviflora minnie-max Endangered Microgramma heterophylla climbing vine fern/vine fern Endangered ocimum/mosquito plant/wild basil/wild mosquitoplant/ Ocimum campechianum wild sweet basil Endangered FL oncidium/FL dancinglady Oncidium floridanum orchid Endangered Oncidium luridum mule-ear orchid Endangered Ophioglossum palmatum hand fern Endangered Passiflora pallens pineland passionvine Endangered swampbush/mangrove Pavonia paludico€a mallow Endangered Peperomia glabella cypress peperomia Endangered Peperomia humilis peperomia/low peperomia Endangered Peperomia obtusifolia FL peperomia Endangered round peperomia)yerba iinda/yerba de medio real/ Peperomia rotundifolia nowo kako Endangered Pleurothallis gelida frosted orchid Endangered Polypodium ptilodon swamp plume/polypody Endangered Polyrrhiza lindenii ghost orchid Endangered Polystachya concrete greater yellowspike orchid Endangered Mrs. Britton's shadow-witch Ponthieva brittoniae orchid Endangered Roystonea elata FL royal palm Endangered Spiranthes elata tall neottia Endangered Spiranthes torte southern ladies' tresses Endangered hidden stylisma showy Stylisma abdita dawnflower Endangered Stately maiden fern/Collier Thelypteris grandis County maiden fern Endangered creeping star-hair fern/ walking wood fern/creeping Thelypteris reptans fern Endangered lattice-vein fern!cypress Thelypteris reticulata fern Endangered common wild-pine/clustered Tillandsia fasciculata wild-pine Endangered Tillandsia pruinosa fuzzy-wuzzy air plant Endangered Tournefortia hirsutissima chiggery-grapes Endangered Lamarck's rema/pain-in-the- Trema lamarckianum back Endangered Trichomanes holopterum entire-winged bristle fern Endangered Trichostigma octandrum hoop vine Endangered Triphora craigheadii Craighead's orchid Endangered Vanilla mexicana unscented vanilla Endangered Vanilla phaeantha leafy vanilla Endangered Verbena maritima coastal vervain Endangered Verbena tampensis tampa vervain Endangered Acanthocereus pentagonus barbed-wired cactus threatened Acoelorraphe wrightii everglades palm threatened Acrostichum aureum golden leather fern threatened Andropogon arctatus pinewood bluestem threatened Bletia purpurea pine-pink orchid threatened Chamaesyce pergamena southern FL sandmat threatened Chrysophyllum oliviforme satin leaf threatened Coccothrinax argentata silver palm threatened Crossopetalum rhacoma rhacoma maidenberry threatened Eulophia ecristata non-crested eulophia threatened threadroot orchid!leafless Harrisella filiformis orchid/jingle bell orchid threatened Jacquemontia curtissii pineland jacquemontia threatened Lechea cernua scrub pineweed threatened catesby lily/pine lily!leopard Lilium catesbaei lily!southern red lily threatened Manilkara jaimiqui wild dilly/wild sapodilla threatened Maytenus phyllanthoides mayten threatened Melanthera parvifolia small-leaved melanthera threatened Myrcianthes fragrans simpson's stopper threatened giant sword fern/Boston Nephrolepis biserrata fern threatened Opuntia stricta shell mound prickly-pear threatened Pinguicula caerulea blue butterwort threatened Pinguicula lutea yellow butterwort threatened Platanthera nivea snowy orchid threatened Pteris bahamensis Bahama ladder brake threatened Scaevola plumieri inkberry threatened Smilax havanensis prickly green brier threatened Solanum donianum potato tree threatened Spermacoce terminalis false buttonweed threatened Spiranthes laciniata lace-lip sprial orchid threatened Spiranthes longilabris giant spiral orchid threatened leafless beaked orchid/terra Stenorrhynchos lanceolatus cotta orchid threatened Swietenia mahagoni mahogany threatened Tillandsia balbisiana inflated wildpine threatened Tillandsia flexuosa twisted air plant threatened Tillandsia valenzuelana soft-leaved wildpine threatened Tripsacum floridanum FL gamagrass threatened Data from: Coile, N. 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