Title
Bureau of Land Management Conditional Use Permit
Case Number CUP-16-035
Assessor Parcel Number 308-041-002
Table Bluff County Park, Table Bluff/South Jetty area
A Conditional Use Permit to allow for on-going invasive weed/vegetation removal and maintenance activities on an approximately 7 acre portion of Table Bluff County Park owned by Humboldt County. The maintenance activities undertaken are part of the South Spit Interim (Final) Management Plan of 2002, and are consistent with said plan. The project site has two maintenance and activity areas: 1) the Restored Native Plant Habitat Maintenance Area which is approximately 4.3 acres in size; and 2) the Educational Activity Area, which is approximately 2.74 acres in size. The removal and maintenance work in the Restored Native Plant Habitat Maintenance Area involves an occasional to annual visual inspection and manual removal of any European beachgrass (Ammophilia arenaria) resprouts and other incidental invasive, non-native plants. The purpose of the work is to maintain the state of completed restoration of native dune habitat and native northern foredune grassland plant habitat areas. Maintenance work typically requires less than one standard work day by two to three people, per year. Any iceplant manually removed would be taken off-site to a green waste disposal site if the pile is too dense to dry quickly and is at risk of rooting. The Educational Activity Area: maintenance and removal activities consist of the removal of European beachgrass and/or iceplant by hand-pulling and with the use of hand tools. Piles of pulled beachgrass would be left to naturally decompose. The purpose of this work is to maintain a mosaic of degraded and recovered dune mat and northern foredune habitat. This degraded area is useful as an educational activity area for Ocean Day. Ocean Day is a statewide education program and usually occurs the first week of June. About 800 students from kindergarten through eighth grade partic...
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