Friday, September 07, 2007

 

Royal Gorge Scientific Peer Review


The Sierra Club, Mountain Area Preservation Fund, North Fork American River Alliance, the Sierra Business Council and the Donner Summit Area Association entered into formal negotiation process with Royal Gorge LLC to review the scientific data collected by the North Fork Associates for the proposed development on Donner Summit. The Serene Lakes Property Owners Association participated as an observer to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the other four groups. The two primary purposes of the MOU were:
  1. Maintain open lines of communication between concerned citizen groups and Royal Gorge LLC, and
  2. Initiate a third party peer review process of the North Fork Associates biological resources and wetland delineation studies.
Dr. Michael White, PhD, of The Conservation Biology Institute, conducted the peer review. Dr. White's final report, "Peer Review of Biological Baseline Conditions Reports for the Royal Gorge Study Area" is now available. The signatories to the MOU agree that the initial dialog was constructive, and, that Dr. White's review resulted in specific recommendations for future data collection. Some of those studies are now being prepared by North Fork Associates.

The documents generated during the Scientific Peer Review process are now available to the public. The Biological Resource Assessment details the plant and animal species on the Royal Gorge lands. The Wetlands Delineation document describes how the wetlands were mapped in the associated wetlands map.

# posted by Daniel Wexler @ 7:24 AM
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