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<br />V;7c...J <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />have the concrete problem at deer and elk <br />crossings when they try to cross the canal. <br />Also at the head of each of the siphon struc- <br />tures and similar structures we will put these <br />safety ladder-type structures where if a deer <br />gets in the canal or a child or anyone else, <br />they float down the siphon and this stairway <br />effect pushes them right up out of the canal <br />rather than letting them go down into the <br />siphon structures. These will be incorporated <br />into our canal design. <br /> <br />The twelfth recommendation, the one that <br />Larry mentioned that has been quite contro- <br />versial, and that is 'acquire and develop <br />14,000 acres of private land and 2,840 acres of <br />public land on Oak Ridge at a cost of $900,000 <br />to mitigate losses of big game habitat caused <br />by the project'. This is a picture of Oak <br />Ridge looking at it from the west from the end <br />of the Ridge. This is the Oak Ridge area <br />through here. These are our project land areas <br />down here shown in yellow in the bottom of the <br />valley. This is the area here. <br /> <br />As an alternate to that it was recommended <br />by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife <br />of providing a buffer zone along the Josephine <br />Canal along with getting easements or leases <br />on the Oak Creek land. This sketch shows the <br />possibilities of a buffer zone along there as <br />an alternate to this to go along with leasing <br />of private lands rather than the outright <br />purchase. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I'd like to point out here that the Yellow <br />Jacket Canal comes from under Oak Ridge by a <br />tunnel up here and comes into the head of the <br />Little Beaver Valley. Right at this point we <br />have a drop in the canal. the canal drops down <br />a hillside to get down into the lower land. <br />At that point we could take out a small ditch <br />on grade, on elevation coming around here like <br />this and this lIone through here, which equals <br />about 1,000 acres as shown on the map, could <br />