Rancho Mission Viejo Land Trust

Monitoring activities completed in 2023 comprise year 5 of the current 5-year management action plan covering the period from 2019 through 2024. Map monitoring in 2023 included coastal sage scrub point-count surveys for coastal sage scrub birds, grasshopper sparrow (ammodramus savannarum) monitoring, and visual decline surveys in oak and riparian woodlands. Monitoring of sensitive plant species in the habitat reserve continued in 2023 for southern tarplant (centromadia parryi ssp. Australis). Land management continued in san juan creek with routine maintenance and monitoring in previous invasive plant removal areas. African clawed frog (xenopus laevis) control, spanish sunflower (pulicaria paludosa) and pampas grass (cortaderia selloana) removal was also implemented in the habitat reserve in 2023 in chiquita creek.

Rancho Mission Viejo Land Trust provides management and monitoring activities in the Land Trust preserve using the benefit fees collected from the first time sale of homes within the preserve benefit area.