Meadowfoam Monitoring Plan - North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve, Butte County

Butte County meadowfoam (Limnanthes floccosa ssp. californica) is an annual plant that is designated as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act and federal Endangered Species Act. Butte County meadowfoam is only found in a narrow 28-mile strip along the eastern Sacramento Valley in Butte County, and a population of Butte County meadowfoam is located at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve (Reserve). Populations of Butte County meadowfoam have been subject to historic grazing practices. Grazing took place at the Reserve for many years prior to it becoming an ecological reserve, and CDFW has continued this practice to manage vegetation. The monitoring consists of three primary parts: (1) a census of Butte County meadowfoam within monitoring plots; (2) monitoring photographs; and (3) general written documentation of grazing impacts, if available. The census data is intended to to represent the total number of Butte County meadowfoam plants at the reserve, subpopulations may exist that we did not locate, and if so, our dataset does not include them. The monitoring photograph files are named with a unique identifier (e.g. "Al") followed by a date in the format YYYYMMDD. This data and metadata were submitted by California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Staff though the Data Management Plan (DMP) framework with the id: DMP000047. For more information, please visit https://wildlife.ca.gov/Data/Sci-Data.