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<br />-18- <br />• <br />Project lands furnish important habitat for several species of raptors. <br />~ Golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, marsh hawks, and great horned owls <br />are common year-round residents nesting and wintering in the vicinity. <br />High concentrations of bald eagles and rough-legged hawks winter in <br />~ Moffat County, Colorado, and Carbon County, Wyoming, along the Little <br />Snake River, while American kestrels, prairie falcons, and burrowing <br />owls regularly summer and nest in the area. <br /> <br />The Little Snake River is an important production area for Canada <br />geese (Figures 10 and 11). Although there are a few geese raised in <br />~ the Wyoming reach of the stream, most of the production occurs along <br />the Little Snake River in Colorado, downstream from Baggs, Wyoming. <br />Colorado surveys three goose production areas annually in Moffat <br />~ County: (1) the Green River from the Utah-Colorado border and Brown's <br />Park National Wildlife Refuge down through Dinosaur National Monument <br />to the Utah line; (2) along the Yampa River from Craig, Colorado, <br />~ downstream to Dinosaur National Monument; and (3) the Little Snake <br />River from the Powder Wash bridge downstream to about 6 miles below <br />the State Highway 318 crossing. The average annual gosling production <br />~ from 1970-1975 (excluding 1974) in the Little Snake River survey area <br />was 89, or 20.9 percent of the production in the Moffat County survey <br />area. This represents only a production index and not necessarily <br />~ total production. <br />f <br />