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<br />) <br /> <br />J <br /> <br />N <br />....., <br />In <br /> <br />removed from the official "threatened" <br /> <br />list. Otherwise, areas used other than <br /> <br />incidentally by rare birds are not affected. <br /> <br />The sandhill crane may, in fact, benefit <br /> <br />somewhat as silting-in of the Elkhead <br /> <br />Creek Reservoir allows broad expanses <br /> <br />of marshy habitat to develop. <br /> <br />The Colorado River squawfish is adapted <br /> <br />to life in turbid, swift, warm rivers. No <br />adverse effect to this species is <br /> <br />anticipated. <br /> <br />No ecologically unique areas are known <br /> <br />to be in the vicinity of any of the <br /> <br />proposed activities,'with the exception <br /> <br />of Big Bottom, which will not be affected <br /> <br />directly. <br /> <br />2.3.7 Cumulative Project Impact <br /> <br />In and of themselves, none of the project's <br /> <br />facilities are expected to create severe <br /> <br />ultimate ecological impacts which would <br /> <br />be fe It more than locally. Even the mine, <br /> <br />which will have the greatest short-term <br /> <br />adverse ecologlcal impact, will if <br /> <br />reclaimed successfully as planned, return <br /> <br />-173- <br />