Project Goal

To have a healthy watershed ecosystem for biodiversity, recreation, and education by using comprehensive management planning.

Objectives

• Protect Las Virgenes Creek by enhancing water quality, and managing stormwater and sediment discharge.
• Enhance genetic diversity, facilitate animal movement and access along the creek corridor and through regional habitat areas.
• Foster appreciation of Las Virgenes Creek as an amenity for the city (education, access, recreation, aesthetics).

Issues

• Protection of rare and endangered species; Steelhead Trout, Southwestern Pond Turtle, Least Bell's Vireo, Yellow Billed Cuckoo.
• Habitat Diversity: potential of species and ecosystems to function in the watershed.
• Corridor Continuity: a way for wildlife to move safely along the stream channel and possibly connect with other corridors or "patches".
• Water Quality: a stream that will support aquatic and terrestrial habitat.
• Recreation: access for walking/jogging/biking/picnicking, etc., in the corridor.
• Education: creek use for education of young people and the general public.

Plan Components

• a creek protection component, structural and eco-functional to manage direct impacts to the creek.
• a habitat linkage component to encourage and enable wildlife movement across and through the creek.
• a riparian greenway component to foster human care of the creek, without compromising the other objectives.