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Home My WebLink AboutRe_ Canyon Loop Trail Request (2)Hi Alan and Ryan, Thank you for this. Can you confirm we are out of full time biologist hours effective today? If so, I'd like to request a part time schedule for tomorrow so I can meet on site with the Native American Monitor to determine the amount of "ground disturbance" he considers outstanding. There is some discrepancy with the contractor about what has been disturbed already and what may be considered new disturbance. I hope to have that information tomorrow night which would guide this potential change order. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank You Ryan ________________________________ From: Ashimine, Alan <aashimine@mbakerintl.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 5:56 PM To: Ryan Wright <RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov> Cc: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> Subject: RE: Canyon Loop Trail Request CAUTION: This message originated outside of our City of Diamond Bar network. **Please exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders.** Ryan: Please find attached our change order to provide the additional 3 weeks of full-time monitoring. The budget assumes 3 weeks - if ground disturbing activities conclude in less than that, then obviously we wouldn't need the full budget. Please take a look and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Alan Ashimine Michael Baker International Direct: 949.855.5710 -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Wright <RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2022 5:19 PM To: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> Cc: Ashimine, Alan <aashimine@mbakerintl.com> Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Canyon Loop Trail Request Thanks, the challenges continue. Please send it over and any options you suggest to best utilize their time. Thank you ________________________________ From: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2022, 4:50 PM To: Ryan Wright <RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov> Cc: Ashimine, Alan <aashimine@mbakerintl.com> Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Canyon Loop Trail Request CAUTION: This message originated outside of our City of Diamond Bar network. **Please exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders.** Ryan, I have confirmed Endemic's availability to continue full-time monitoring, but I wanted to let you know that this will exceed the budget that was set aside for them. They are budgeted with us for 10 days of full-time monitoring and 12 days of half-time monitoring (4 hours weekly after veg removal ends). To continue with full-time monitoring we'll definitely need to submit a change order to cover the costs. Will this be okay? Ryan Winkleman Senior Biologist/Project Manager 949-533-0918 This email was sent from my phone. If you need to immediately reach me, please call the number above. ________________________________ From: Ryan Wright <RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2022 3:29:27 PM To: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com>; KNRM <knrm17@gmail.com> Cc: chairman@gabrielenoindians.org <chairman@gabrielenoindians.org>; Danny Daher <acecd99@gmail.com>; Richard Fisher <rfisher@rfaland.com>; Mando Campos <armandocampos56@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Canyon Loop Trail Request Yes, based on our site walk today we believe there is additional ground disturbance to be completed pertaining to the stairs and gabion walls. Thanks Ryan ________________________________ From: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2022, 3:26 PM To: Ryan Wright <RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov>; KNRM <knrm17@gmail.com> Cc: chairman@gabrielenoindians.org <chairman@gabrielenoindians.org>; Danny Daher <acecd99@gmail.com>; Richard Fisher <rfisher@rfaland.com>; Mando Campos <armandocampos56@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Canyon Loop Trail Request CAUTION: This message originated outside of our City of Diamond Bar network. **Please exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders.** Hi Ryan, Sorry, just to clarify when you say, "...beginning on this date for approximately another few weeks," do you mean back to full-time monitoring? Ryan Winkleman Senior Biologist/Project Manager 949-533-0918 This email was sent from my phone. If you need to immediately reach me, please call the number above. ________________________________ From: Ryan Wright <RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2022 3:10:37 PM To: KNRM <knrm17@gmail.com> Cc: chairman@gabrielenoindians.org <chairman@gabrielenoindians.org>; Danny Daher <acecd99@gmail.com>; Richard Fisher <rfisher@rfaland.com>; Mando Campos <armandocampos56@yahoo.com> Subject: EXTERNAL: Canyon Loop Trail Request Good Afternoon, Although we expect rain early next week, we would like to request monitoring support beginning again on Wednesday, November 9 if the weather is improved. If the monitor is available beginning on this date for approximately another few weeks, I will confirm Tuesday night if we will be back on trial Wednesday pending weather conditions. Sorry for the confusion. 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Ryan Winkleman | Project Manager/Senior Biologist/Certified Senior Ecologist 5 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 500 | Santa Ana, CA 92707 | [O] 949-330-4115 | [M] (949) 533-0918 ryan.winkleman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:ryan.winkleman@mbakerintl.com> | www.mbakerintl.com <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinkprotect.cudasvc.com%2Furl%3Fa%3Dhttps %253a%252f%252fwww.mbakerintl.com%252f%26c%3DE%2C1%2CGm52zbCqc8JG2nvagPzFh8vnRyWFYk80X9O2sxWc1MCtpocMXMYN-g6QgksVvgN1eEsNsfLVWasdXZiwzk1OiSFwE4PqiOltIxMy4vkF3zuKgj32WMZYBr1XEG8S%26typo%3D1&data=05%7C 01%7CRyan.Winkleman%40mbakerintl.com%7C61cfe98900c340633f2008da56053f8a%7C4e1ee3db4df64142b7b9bec15f171ca4%7C0%7C0%7C637916877797134485%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJ BTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=suXXJ6rGt8LWYU5eGyYhunes5q1Ie8BHN9hCNm1FuZI%3D&reserved=0> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fmbakerintl.com%2fmedia%2f5024%2fs 21_f_061907_icons.jpg&c=E,1,1SF0nUB8_9QKTzXDPs4NGbLK8m3D9VvjOjcz8FhaEHsJ9u8lMjYyXFVzFrSMZFtucQ3HQ6efEcDARf2t6FuQ_Jz4oNpzOvML0JV6zitdSidm2n4,&typo=1> From: Roberts, Carol <carol_a_roberts@fws.gov <mailto:carol_a_roberts@fws.gov> > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 2:17 PM To: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> > Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [EXTERNAL] HCP contact Please send the materials you described below (a brief memo describing the project, past survey efforts, and proposed avoidance measures) and also a map showing the location of the trail widening to me. I will review the materials and either assign it to one of my staff or handle it myself. Does that sound reasonable? -Carol (she, her, hers) Carol A. Roberts, Division Supervisor Environmental Contaminants/Federal Projects/ESA Sec 7 & 10 Collateral Duty Safety Officer Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office 2177 Salk Avenue, Suite 250, Carlsbad, CA 92008 760-431-9440, ext. 271 [Please note: we are on extended telework, so the mobile phone below is best.] 24-hour Emergency Spill Response Mobile Phone 760-607-9768 ________________________________ From: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 13:19 To: Roberts, Carol <carol_a_roberts@fws.gov <mailto:carol_a_roberts@fws.gov> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] HCP contact This email has been received from outside of DOI - Use caution before clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding. Hi Carol, I have a small trail widening project in Diamond Bar for which I did gnatcatcher surveys in 2020. I found multiple pairs on-site and breeding within the 500-foot buffer that I surveyed. One of the recommendations that we made at the time was that FWS be approached to determine if the project required any sort of HCP (including low-effect), as it doesn’t have a federal nexus, and that went into the official project mitigation requirements. As the project has developed and we now as of last week have approved design drawings, the project has really scaled back what impacts it may have on the species. The impacted acreage of CSS will be very small and the project will be incorporating temporal avoidance strategies, hoping to construct this fall outside of the breeding season. As I mentioned, it’s just a small trail widening project, widening an existing trail to 5 feet where it’s generally already 3 to 4 feet wide anyway. Super small. With the low effect HCP screening form I don’t see it having any of the significant impacts that might trigger even a low effect HCP (e.g., the impacted acreage will be nominal and will be mitigated for (we’re thinking the Soquel Canyon bank), they are constructing outside of the breeding season, there is no intentional take of individual birds proposed). I’m hoping that at this point we can just get some sort of written concurrence from USFWS that the project will not require any additional measures beyond what is already being incorporated, and I had hoped to connect with the appropriate person at USFWS to initiate that conversation. I had planned to put together a brief memo describing the project, past survey efforts, and proposed avoidance measures and hopefully get something in writing back that the project impacts do not meet the level of significance requiring any sort of HCP and that the proposed measures are adequate to protect the species. Can you please point me in the right direction for whom I could talk to to get the ball rolling? Thank you! Ryan Winkleman | Project Manager/Senior Biologist/Certified Senior Ecologist 5 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 500 | Santa Ana, CA 92707 | [O] 949-330-4115 | [M] (949) 533-0918 ryan.winkleman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:ryan.winkleman@mbakerintl.com> | www.mbakerintl.com <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mbakerintl.com%2F&data=05%7C01%7CRyan .Winkleman%40mbakerintl.com%7C61cfe98900c340633f2008da56053f8a%7C4e1ee3db4df64142b7b9bec15f171ca4%7C0%7C0%7C637916877797134485%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h aWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=XTFSphLdWTIKWGfmbUKkAnNHJBGW3HSnroYvYCU7QMw%3D&reserved=0> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fmbakerintl.com%2fmedia%2f5024%2fs21_f_0619 07_icons.jpg&c=E,1,Nh7Cp864OThYOr1UYVgsJ9oowlFIrp0LdUm7dlzOpPtnnOgnu4mZob3h-OtfZg5otZ5qbOiHV7dSoEhz0H2IMCYtazWJZ4d-nt575fQzQS01&typo=1> eman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2022 11:06 AM To: Roberts, Carol <carol_a_roberts@fws.gov <mailto:carol_a_roberts@fws.gov> > Cc: Ashimine, Alan <aashimine@mbakerintl.com <mailto:aashimine@mbakerintl.com> >; Ryan Wright <RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov <mailto:RWright@DiamondBarCA.Gov> > Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: Re: [EXTERNAL] HCP contact CAUTION: This message originated outside of our City of Diamond Bar network. Hi Carol, I’m putting together the materials we discussed below but I was wondering if you and I could connect informally over Microsoft Teams sometime in the next couple days prior to me sending you anything. That would give me a chance to go over the project history with you, talk about on-site gnatcatchers, and discuss the project with you in a live conversation, which may help make things smoother for both of us later if I can bring you up to speed beforehand. If that works, please let me know when you’re available. Thank you! Ryan Winkleman | Project Manager/Senior Biologist/Certified Senior Ecologist 5 Hutton Centre Drive, Suite 500 | Santa Ana, CA 92707 | [O] 949-330-4115 | [M] (949) 533-0918 ryan.winkleman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:ryan.winkleman@mbakerintl.com> | www.mbakerintl.com <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinkprotect.cudasvc.com%2Furl%3Fa%3Dhttps %253a%252f%252fwww.mbakerintl.com%252f%26c%3DE%2C1%2CGm52zbCqc8JG2nvagPzFh8vnRyWFYk80X9O2sxWc1MCtpocMXMYN-g6QgksVvgN1eEsNsfLVWasdXZiwzk1OiSFwE4PqiOltIxMy4vkF3zuKgj32WMZYBr1XEG8S%26typo%3D1&data=05%7C 01%7CRyan.Winkleman%40mbakerintl.com%7C61cfe98900c340633f2008da56053f8a%7C4e1ee3db4df64142b7b9bec15f171ca4%7C0%7C0%7C637916877797134485%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJ BTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=suXXJ6rGt8LWYU5eGyYhunes5q1Ie8BHN9hCNm1FuZI%3D&reserved=0> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fmbakerintl.com%2fmedia%2f5024%2fs 21_f_061907_icons.jpg&c=E,1,1SF0nUB8_9QKTzXDPs4NGbLK8m3D9VvjOjcz8FhaEHsJ9u8lMjYyXFVzFrSMZFtucQ3HQ6efEcDARf2t6FuQ_Jz4oNpzOvML0JV6zitdSidm2n4,&typo=1> From: Roberts, Carol <carol_a_roberts@fws.gov <mailto:carol_a_roberts@fws.gov> > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 2:17 PM To: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> > Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [EXTERNAL] HCP contact Please send the materials you described below (a brief memo describing the project, past survey efforts, and proposed avoidance measures) and also a map showing the location of the trail widening to me. I will review the materials and either assign it to one of my staff or handle it myself. Does that sound reasonable? -Carol (she, her, hers) Carol A. Roberts, Division Supervisor Environmental Contaminants/Federal Projects/ESA Sec 7 & 10 Collateral Duty Safety Officer Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office 2177 Salk Avenue, Suite 250, Carlsbad, CA 92008 760-431-9440, ext. 271 [Please note: we are on extended telework, so the mobile phone below is best.] 24-hour Emergency Spill Response Mobile Phone 760-607-9768 ________________________________ From: Winkleman, Ryan <Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com <mailto:Ryan.Winkleman@mbakerintl.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 13:19 To: Roberts, Carol <carol_a_roberts@fws.gov <mailto:carol_a_roberts@fws.gov> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] HCP contact This email has been received from outside of DOI - Use caution before clicking on links, opening attachments, or responding. Hi Carol, I have a small trail widening project in Diamond Bar for which I did gnatcatcher surveys in 2020. I found multiple pairs on-site and breeding within the 500-foot buffer that I surveyed. One of the recommendations that we made at the time was that FWS be approached to determine if the project required any sort of HCP (including low-effect), as it doesn’t have a federal nexus, and that went into the official project mitigation requirements. As the project has developed and we now as of last week have approved design drawings, the project has really scaled back what impacts it may have on the species. The impacted acreage of CSS will be very small and the project will be incorporating temporal avoidance strategies, hoping to construct this fall outside of the breeding season. As I mentioned, it’s just a small trail widening project, widening an existing trail to 5 feet where it’s generally already 3 to 4 feet wide anyway. Super small. Wi