| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.32 |
| Liaison | Carrie Metzgar |
| Submission Date | May 3, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of California, San Diego
OP-T2-20: Wildlife Habitat
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.25 / 0.25 |
Alonso
Noble Assistant Superintendent Facilities Management |
Does the institution have programs in place to protect and/or create wildlife habitat on institution-owned land?:
A brief description of the wildlife habitat program, policy, or practice:
27% of UC San Diego main campus is a ecological preserve and grove park. UC Sam Diego owns and manages nearly 102M sq ft of land, of which less than 6% is building footprint. UC San Diego’s permanent preserve urban forest of >200,000 trees reduces energy use by 12.9 GWh/yr, sequesters 10,000 tons/yr of C02 (5% of UC San Diego’s annual emissions), and traps and filters into the water table - 140 million gallons/yr of untreated storm water. Campus owns four Natural Reserve sites: Scripps Coastal Reserve, Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve, Elliot Chaparral Reserve, and Dawson Los Monos Canyon Reserve. Scripps Coastal Reserve is a California Area of Special Biological Significance and a Marine Life Refuge and Ecological Reserve. UC San Diego received $2.65M to perform Areas of Special Biological Significance (ASBS) protection work.
The website URL where information about the program, policy, or practice is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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