California whipsnake

The program includes long-term monitoring and breeding programs for the Alameda whipsnake and California red-legged frog.

Nearly 75% of the owner's land will be preserved as open space and managed habitat for the area's two threatened, though not endangered, species: the Alameda whipsnake and California red-legged frog.

But what conservation groups opposed was a golf course sprawling nearly three quarters of a mile across Walpert Ridge, in prime open space and habitat for the imperiled Alameda whipsnake and the California red-legged frog.

However, they are concerned that the Fish & Wildlife Service's own biologists believed the golf course would jeopardize the continued existence of the threatened Alameda whipsnake and California red-legged frog.

The second sought to prevent construction of the project based on the alleged failure to adequately protect the environmentally sensitive habitat of the California red-legged frog and the Alameda whipsnake.

Judge Illston's decision confirms that the construction of the Walpert Ridge project, given its extensive mitigation measures, will result in an environmentally-sensitive project that protects and improves the habitat for both the California red-legged frog and the Alameda whipsnake.