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. The mouth of the Missouri does not indicate use of the Platte, it may indicate <br />the confluence has desirable conditions but the Missouri would contribute <br />significantly to what exists in this area. <br />• The range described in the baseline indicates the Platte would be an <br />insignificant part of the species range (< I%) Other studies, Bailey and <br />Cross (1954), do not even list the Platte River as part of the range. <br />• Of 872 records prior to 1998, 70 % are from the Missouri, 14% Atchafalaya, <br />9% Yellowstone, 5% Mississippi, and only 2% from the St. Francis, Ohio, <br />Kansas, Big Sunflower and Platte combined (Steve Kentz, USFWS 2000) <br />• The Missouri River Biological Opinion states that pallid sturgeon were still <br />fairly common in the Missouri in 1967, well after most water development on <br />the Platte, North Platte, and South Platte Rivers was completed. <br />• Range of conditions in baseline and other documents indicate pallid sturgeon <br />use a broad range of habitat, which the lower Platte contains, but which is not <br />unique to the Platte. <br />