Mitigation Measures & Monitoring

Meet at the Casitas Springs Community Center, afternoon in the classroom

2:00 pm
Meet and greet; workshop overview

2:30 pm
Survey: 50 questions to provide a baseline of the group’s existing understanding of mitigation measures and monitoring

3:30 pm
ABCs of mitigation and monitoring: what is mitigation and monitoring, overview of mitigation measures including procedures and research needs, monitoring requirements

5:00 pm
Break for the day

Meet at the Casitas Springs Community Center, morning in the classroom, afternoon in the field

9:00 am
Why mitigate and monitor – the basics: what drives requirements to mitigate and to monitor the mitigation, environmental regulations including CEQA

9:45 am
Identifying the resource impacted: assessments conducted to satisfy various regulatory permits, types of impacts requiring mitigation

10:30 am
Mitigation responsibilities: who requires mitigation, project-related impacts (direct, indirect, cumulative) and significance, mitigating to less-than-significant levels, findings

11:15 am
Elements of a mitigation measure: identification of resource to be mitigated, mitigation site(s), ratio, and duration, responsible party, measure feasibility, mitigation and monitoring plans, success criteria, monitoring frequency, compliance entity

Noon
Lunch break (please bring your own lunch and water)

1:00 pm
Field exercise: visit 1-2 field sites (TBA) to consider how mitigation would be monitored

5:00 pm
Break for the day

Meet at the Casitas Springs Community Center, all day in the field

9:00 am
Mitigation measure review practicum: review biological resource mitigation measures, analyze practicalities and feasibility of monitoring the measures

10:45 am
Discussion of case study: elements to consider when developing a mitigation measure related to how success/failure would be monitored

Noon
Lunch break (please bring your own lunch and water)

1:00 pm
Review and summary of workshop

2:45 pm
Discussion: personal experiences and questions

4:00 pm
Test (optional) for certificate of completion, workshop evaluations

5:00 pm
Workshop concludes

• Notebook and pen/pencil
• Clipboard
• Sturdy shoes or boots, hat & field clothing appropriate for the weather and conditions (e.g. protection from poison oak, rain, sun, heat/cold, insects, etc.), for Wednesday afternoon
• Packable lunches, plenty of water, and snacks for both full days

David Magney, Special Projects Program Manager of the CNPS Rare Plant Program and President of David Magney Environmental Consulting (DMEC), is a biologist/botanist, Certified Consulting Botanist and Certified Arborist, and physical geographer with a thorough knowledge of the flora of CA and over 30 years of field experience. David joined CNPS staff in mid-2016 after 32 years in various leadership roles as a volunteer focusing on conservation and rare plants, including serving as CNPS Board President and president of the Channel Islands Chapter for many years.

As an environmental consultant, David has worked on and managed a large variety of projects throughout the Pacific Southwest, including biological resource inventories, vegetation mapping and classification, wetland delineations and restoration, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, fisheries habitat assessment and mitigation design, fisheries monitoring, small mammal trapping and surveys, biological impact analysis and mitigation, and construction and mitigation monitoring. He formed DMEC in 1997 after spending 2 years with FugroWest, 6 years with Jones & Stokes Associates, and 3 years with Dames & Moore, as well as working with the Los Padres National Forest and UCSB Herbarium. David earned a BA in Geography and Environmental Studies (emphasis in botany) from UC Santa Barbara in 1985. He also holds an A.S. in Landscape Horticulture from Ventura College. David has taught courses and given presentations on wetland impacts and mitigation, CEQA, Clean Water Act permitting, water quality, riparian and wetland plant identification, and wetland delineation methodology. He has authored two floras in CA and presented numerous papers on vegetation and water quality, and has nearly completed a manual on the flora of Ventura County (www.venturaflora.com). He served on the Environmental Review Board for Los Angeles County Regional Planning, and the City of Ojai’s Tree Committee until late 2016.