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Summary

Location/Sources

Resources at stake

• Soil stability
  • ...

• Water quality
  • Terrestrial animals specifically felids and mostly domesticated cats contribute to an increase in T. gondi occurrence in sea otters in Elkhorn Slough. T. gondi is a parasitic pathogen that affects muscle and nerve tissue and has resulted in fatal brain infections of southern sea otters. ^[1]

• Habitat suitability

Stakeholders

• Private Landowners

• Farmers

• Elkhorn Slough Foundation (ESF)
  • non-profit environmental organization concerned with conservation of Elkhorn Slough

• Audubon Society
  • Elkhorn Slough is said to be an Important Bird Area along the Pacific Flyway

• US Fish and Wildlife
  • endangered species present

• Army Corps of Engineers
  • responsible for 404 permitting

• California Department of Fish and Game
  • concern over habitat health (ESNERR)
  • enforcement of California Endangered Specices

Laws and regulations

• Clean Water Act
  • Section 401

• US Endangered Species Act

• California Endangered Species Act

Science

Systems

1. ↑ Miller et al. (2002) http://www.otterproject.org/atf/cf/%7B1032ABCB-19F9-4CB6-8364-2F74F73B3013%7D/RISK%20PAPER-MILLER.PDF.

Links

The Carneros Watershed