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Home My WebLink AboutNY Natural Heritage Program Report 2015-9-17September 16, 2015 NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources New York Natural Heritage Program 625 Broadway, 5th Floor, Albany, New York 12233-4757 Phone: (518) 402-8935 • Fax: (518) 402-8925 Website: www.dec.ny.gov Carol Tuthill Proposed 80/60 Conservation Subdivision Open Development Area covering ~112 acres at 21505, Re: 21920, and 26975 Rte. 25, and 7685 and 8070 Narrow River Rd. Town/City: Southold. County: Suffolk. Carol Tuthill:Dear 975 Andrea Chaloux Environmental Review Specialist New York Natural Heritage Program In response to your recent request, we have reviewed the New York Natural Heritage Program database with respect to the above project. Enclosed is a report of rare or state-listed animals and plants, and significant natural communities that our database indicates occur, or may occur, on your site or in the immediate vicinity of your site. Note also that the Orient Harbor Significant Coastal Fish and Wildlife Habitat (SCFWH), Long Beach Bay SCFWH, and Long Beach Bay Tidal Wetlands Area are adjacent to your site. For most sites, comprehensive field surveys have not been conducted; the enclosed report only includes records from our database. We cannot provide a definitive statement as to the presence or absence of all rare or state-listed species or significant natural communities. Depending on the nature of the project and the conditions at the project site, further information from on-site surveys or other sources may be required to fully assess impacts on biological resources. Our database is continually growing as records are added and updated. If this proposed project is still under development one year from now, we recommend that you contact us again so that we may update this response with the most current information. The presence of the plants and animals identified in the enclosed report may result in this project requiring additional review or permit conditions. For further guidance, and for information regarding other permits that may be required under state law for regulated areas or activities (e.g., regulated wetlands), please contact the appropriate NYS DEC Regional Office, Division of Environmental Permits, as listed at www.dec.ny.gov/about/39381.html. Sincerely, Report on Rare Animals, Rare Plants, and Significant Natural CommunitiesNew York Natural Heritage Program The following rare plants, rare animals, and significant natural communities have been documented in the vicinity of your project site. We recommend that potential onsite and offsite impacts of the proposed project on these species or communities be addressed as part of any environmental assessment or review conducted as part of the planning, permitting and approval process, such as reviews conducted under SEQR. Field surveys of the project site may be necessary to determine the status of a species at the site, particularly for sites that are currently undeveloped and may still contain suitable habitat. Final requirements of the project to avoid, minimize, or mitigate potential impacts are determined by the lead permitting agency or the government body approving the project. The following plants are listed as Endangered or Threatened by New York State, and/or are considered rare by the New York Natural Heritage Program, and so are a vulnerable natural resource of conservation concern. HERITAGE CONSERVATION STATUSSCIENTIFIC NAME NY STATE LISTINGCOMMON NAME Vascular Plants Endangered Critically Imperiled in NYS 10763 Ligusticum scothicum ssp. scothicumScotch Lovage Narrow River Road Nature Trail, 2003-07-10: This plant is located in a low grade coastal oak-hickory forest located near the headwaters of a short tidal river. The forested area does have many non-native plants and there is some trash scattered within the site. The narrow trail leading to the forest is seldom used as numerous shrubs were closing the trail in. The trail loops through the coastal forest. Information about many of the rare animals and plants in New York, including habitat, biology, identification, conservation, and management, are available online in Natural Heritage’s Conservation Guides at www.guides.nynhp.org, from NatureServe Explorer at www.natureserve.org/explorer, and from USDA’s Plants Database at http://plants.usda.gov/index.html (for plants). This report only includes records from the NY Natural Heritage database. For most sites, comprehensive field surveys have not been conducted, and we cannot provide a definitive statement as to the presence or absence of all rare or state-listed species. Depending on the nature of the project and the conditions at the project site, further information from on-site surveys or other sources may be required to fully assess impacts on biological resources. Information about many of the natural community types in New York, including identification, dominant and characteristic vegetation, distribution, conservation, and management, is available online in Natural Heritage’s Conservation Guides at www.guides.nynhp.org. For descriptions of all community types, go to www.dec.ny.gov/animals/97703.html for Ecological Communities of New York State. If any rare plants or animals are documented during site visits, we request that information on the observations be provided to the New York Natural Heritage Program so that we may update our database. Page 1 of 19/16/2015 The following rare plants and rare animals have historical records at your project site, or in its vicinity. The following rare plants and animals were documented in the vicinity of the project site at one time, but have not been documented there since 1979 or earlier, and/or there is uncertainty regarding their continued presence. There is no recent information on these plants and animals in the vicinity of the project site and their current status there is unknown. In most cases the precise location of the plant or animal in this vicinity at the time it was last documented is also unknown. New York Natural Heritage Program If suitable habitat for these plants or animals is present in the vicinity of the project site, it is possible that they may still occur there. We recommend that any field surveys to the site include a search for these species, particularly at sites that are currently undeveloped and may still contain suitable habitat. Report on Historical Records of Rare Animals, Rare Plants, and Natural Communities Beetles Cicindela patruela consentanea Unlisted and Globally Rare 8424 Historical Records Only in NYSNew Jersey Pine Barrens Tiger Beetle 1944-10-02: Orient. Vascular Plants Fimbristylis castanea Threatened 46 Imperiled in NYSMarsh Fimbry 1938-08-25: Orient Point. Specimen labels: Salt marsh. Juncus biflorus Endangered 4290 Critically Imperiled in NYSLarge Grass-leaved Rush 1928-08-01: Orient. Marsh. Argentina egedii ssp. groenlandica Threatened 13859 Imperiled in NYSCoastal Silverweed 1924-07-14: Orient. Specimen label: Salt marsh. Juncus brachycarpus Endangered 6003 Critically Imperiled in NYSShort-fruit Rush 1940-07-30: Orient. Moist meadow. Agrimonia rostellata Threatened 6453 Imperiled in NYSWoodland Agrimony 1932-08-22: Orient. Rumex fueginus Endangered 6116 Critically Imperiled in NYSGolden Dock 1926-10: Orient. SCIENTIFIC NAMEHERITAGE CONSERVATION STATUSNYS LISTINGCOMMON NAME Page 1 of 2 Carex hormathodes Threatened 9734 Imperiled in NYSMarsh Straw Sedge 1926-06-01: Orient. Open marsh, wet places. Ligusticum scothicum ssp. scothicum Endangered 10023 Critically Imperiled in NYSScotch Lovage 1980-07-11: Orient. Sabatia stellaris Threatened 9213 Imperiled in NYSSea-pink 1910-09-19: Orient Point. Bolboschoenus maritimus ssp. paludosus Threatened 13853 Imperiled in NYSSeaside Bulrush 1913-07-29: Orient. Specimen label: Salt marshes. Carex straminea Endangered 13854 Critically Imperiled in NYSStraw Sedge 1921-06-15: Orient. Specimen label: Brackish marsh. Sagina decumbens ssp. decumbens Endangered 2746 Critically Imperiled in NYSSmall-flowered Pearlwort 1910-06-20: Orient Point. If any rare plants or animals are documented during site visits, we request that information on the observations be provided to the New York Natural Heritage Program so that we may update our database. This report only includes records from the NY Natural Heritage database. For most sites, comprehensive field surveys have not been conducted, and we cannot provide a definitive statement as to the presence or absence of all rare or state-listed species. Depending on the nature of the project and the conditions at the project site, further information from on-site surveys or other sources may be required to fully assess impacts on biological resources. Information about many of the rare animals and plants in New York, including habitat, biology, identification, conservation, and management, are available online in Natural Heritage’s Conservation Guides at www.guides.nynhp.org, from NatureServe Explorer at www.natureserve.org/explorer, and from USDA’s Plants Database at http://plants.usda.gov/index.html (for plants). SCIENTIFIC NAME HERITAGE CONSERVATION STATUSNYS LISTINGCOMMON NAME Page 2 of 2