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Louis A. Stelzer County Park (Park) is an approximately 374-acre day-use park and was the first park in San Diego County designed to be handicapped accessible. The Park is located at 11470 Wild Cat Canyon Road, Lakeside an unincorporated community of San Diego County (County). The Park is within the upper San Diego River watershed, approximately 1.2 miles north of the Lake Jennings Reservoir and 4.9 miles west of El Capitan Reservoir (Figures 1 and 2). The Park consists of developed recreation areas including trails, picnic and barbecue areas, playground equipment, and parking lots, as well as areas of high value natural communities. In addition, 11 known cultural resource sites have been identified within the Park. The Park is included in the County of San Diego?s Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) preserve system. This Resource Management Plan (RMP) has been prepared as a guidance document to manage and preserve the biological and cultural resources within the Park, and to provide Area-Specific Management Directives (ASMDs) pursuant to the requirements of the County?s MSCP Subarea Plan (County of San Diego 1997), the Framework Management Plan (County of San Diego 2001), and Sections 10.9A and 10.9B of the Implementing Agreement (County of San Diego 1998). These sections specify that the County will be responsible for managing lands which it owns or acquires within the MSCP preserve system.

The County is obligated to monitor habitat preservation and destruction (i.e., gains and losses), habitat quality, and certain covered species. Only the latter two elements are discussed in this report. This report focuses on data collected by County staff, its consultants, or volunteers. This includes efforts funded by Local Assistance Grants that were funded by the California Department of Fish and Game and coordinated by the County. In some instances, other agencies or individuals have surveyed lands for which the County has a responsibility to monitor; these data are reported here to the extent they are known. For the most part, information is presented that pertains to lands that the County is required to monitor under the MSCP, but there are cases where the County has performed surveys on lands managed by other participants, which are reported here as well.