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<br />002488 <br /> <br />Most of the above threatened, endangered, or proposed species are also on Colorado's state list of <br />threatened or endangered species or are a species of special concern. <br /> <br />The watershed project is not expected to have adverse impacts on any of these threatened, <br />endangered, proposed, or special concern species. <br /> <br />Numerous popular game species are found in the area including: pronghorn, white-tail, and mule <br />deer, cottontail and jackrabbits, ring-necked pheasant, a variety of waterfowl species and numerous <br />fish species. <br /> <br />Non-game species are widely represented in the watershed with a variety of shorebirds, songbirds, <br />mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish adding diversity to the wildlife in the area. <br /> <br />Wetlands <br /> <br />Many wetlands in the watershed area located along ditches, drains, and the Arkansas River bottom. <br />These wetlands are primarily Types 5 and 6 (Shaw and Fredine, Circular 39, 1956), or PFO <br />(Palustrine Forested), R40W (Riverine, Lintermittent, Open Water), and R20W (the Arkansas River <br />(Cowardin, 1979). Irrigated fields also contain a small acreage of wetlands caused by seeps and <br />inefficient water management practices. These wetlands are generally Type 1 (Circular 39) or PEM <br />(Palustrine Emergent). The project may result in loss or reduction in size of irrigation induced <br />wetlands in irrigated fields and, as a result, could have a minor effect on the amount of water and <br />seepage from drains (on-farm). A biological assessment is presently being developed. <br /> <br />There will be no net losses of wetlands values due to project action. Mitigation actions will <br />compensate for wetland losses on a .value for value basis. <br /> <br />Archeoloav and Historic <br /> <br />A tour of the Highline Breaks area by the NRCS Archeologist, produced no visible cultural resources <br />for concern other than possible historic farmsteads. When a definite undertaking and a more defined <br />area are selected, staff will survey those areas more intensively. <br /> <br />The computer survey undertaken by the State Historic Preservation Office indicates the following. <br />One canal in the area, the Catlin Consolidate Canal, is eligible for the National Register of Historic <br />Places. Several other canals in the area are ineligible. They are the Rocky Ford Highline Canal - <br />Northern Crossing, the Rocky Ford Highline Canal - Southern Crossing, and the Otero Canal. Other <br />eligible cultural resources are a prehistoric burial, the Swink Bridge, and the Santa Fe Trail - <br />Mountain Branch. Most of these are discernible on quad maps. Many cultural resources are eligible <br />in the towns of the watershed, but these probably will not be in the area of potential effect. <br /> <br />6 <br />