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O~~~~, '. North Park: Parcel NP-2 provides important winter habitat for deer and elk. All parcels in both Middle Park and North Park which provide sagebrush/grassland vegetation are important habitat for sage grouse. a species of special concern due to declines in populations throughout its range. Environmental Consequences of Proposed Action: The prcposed land use designations are likely to be compatible with terrestrial wildlife habitat values. Those parcels which would be identified with a wildlife land use priority would be most beneficial to wildlife. Other land use priority designations could be compatible with wildlife. assuming habitat values for important species are considered in future management actions proposed on the parcels. NON-CRITICAL ELEMENTS ACCESS AND TRANSPORT A TION Affected Environment: All parcels are located in Jackson and Grand Counties adjacent to public lands managed by the BLM, Mcst of the parcels provide legal public access to adjacent BLM lands. Many of the parcels have existing roads and trails. ' Environmental Consequences of Proposed Action: The proposed action would limit vehicle use to designated roads and trails on all the parcels. No cross country travel would be pennitted. Implementation of this decision would require an inventory to identify designated routes. Only those existing routes that are detennined eo be suieable for motorized use would be designated as open. Additional routes could be constructed to provide improved access. mitigate resource damage from existing routes. and/or provide recreational opportunities. Snowmobiles operating on snow would be exempted from this limitation. The proposed action of limiting vehicle to designated roads and trails would not impact access to or on the parcels. PALEONTOLOGY Affected Environment: The parcels lie in Middle Park(Grand County) and North Park (Jackson County) which consists of Mesozoic and Tertiary sedimentary rocks and Tertiary igneous rocks. Paleontologically impcrtant resources exist in some of the Tertiary and Mesozoic Fonnarions in North and Middle Parks. Since these parcels have been brought into Federal ownership. Federal laws. . regulations and policies now protect the Paleontologic resources at these parcels. Environmental Consequences of Proposed Action: The land use priorities identified in the proposed aceion would ha ve minimal impact on Paleontologic resources. FOREST MANAGEMENT: None of the parcels being evaluated in the proposed action are classified as commercial forest lands. Therefore. there would be no impacl [0 forest management associated with this proposaL GEOLOGY AND MINERALS Affected Environment: The parcels all lie in ehe intennountain basins of North and Middle Parks in Grand and Jackson Counties. The two separate basins will be described separately below: 12