Service Description: Western San Joaquin Valley Least Conflict Solar Energy Assessment

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• Solar Projects (0)
• Excluded Protected Areas (2)
• Excluded Conservation Easements (3)
• High Kit fox permeability (6)
• Core Recovery (7)
• GEA and San Joaquin River buffer (8)
• Moderate or High Kit Fox suitability (9)
• Solar Mitigation (10)
• Wetlands (11)
• Ag bird habitat (13)
• CRCC Essential (14)
• Important Bird Areas (15)
• Kit fox Satellite Populations and Linkages (16)
• Serpentine soil (17)
• TNC portfolio (18)

Description: The objective of this assessment is to characterize the land use and conservation constraints and opportunities associated with siting solar energy facilities in the WSJV. This approach identifies areas with high conservation value that are important to avoid when planning energy infrastructure, as well as areas of lower environmental conflict potentially suitable for development. While the approach we take focuses on refining the conservation values in the study area, we also classify the region’s agricultural resources using simple, broadly applicable classes to begin to assess trade-offs or synergies between agricultural production, habitat conservation and energy development. In our assessment of biodiversity conservation values, we focus on core and high quality habitat for multiple listed species, including kit fox, and emphasize the preservation of connectivity for kit fox and other wide-ranging species. The report that describes the methods, assumptions and processing of data is: Butterfield, H.S., D. Cameron, E. Brand, M. Webb, E. Forsburg, M. Kramer, E. O’Donoghue, and L. Crane. 2013. Western San Joaquin Valley least conflict solar assessment. Unpublished report. The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California. 26 pages.

Copyright Text: The Nature Conservancy 2013

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