This document is a collaborative effort between the Foster City Parks and Recreation Department, the Foster City Public Works Department, and CDFW. The goal of the plan is to provide a working strategy that helps address human-CAGO conflict throughout Foster City, particularly at Foster City Parks. The plan will provide background information on CAGO, their use of urban areas in the city, and methods for mitigating conflict and threats to human health and safety. The plan provides both broad and site-specific recommendations to be considered across the city for areas currently experiencing a high-level of human-CAGO conflict, as of the development of this document. Additionally, this document will offer guidelines to foster education and outreach efforts to include citizens, city staff, and other officials, so that these methods and others developed from them, can be further supported for both the short and long term. The adaptive management strategy will allow for analysis of lessons learned during the early years of this effort to help improve the efficiency of future efforts and help facilitate testing and implementation of innovative new methods as those become available. This process is expected to increase effectiveness and reduce the annual cost of a long-term mitigation program and improve coexistence with CAGO within FCP
