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<br />Wildlife Resource Inventory <br /> <br />Riverine Habitat System <br /> <br />The Riverine System includes all wetlands and deepwater habitats <br />contained within a channel except wetlands dominated by trees, shrubs, <br />persistent emergents, nonaquatic mosses or lichens. A channel is, "an <br />open conduit either naturally or artificially created which periodically <br />or continuously contains moving water, or which forms a connecting link <br />between two bodies of standing water" (Langbein and Iseri 1960:5).. <br /> <br />Species used in habitat evaluation procedures for the wildlife <br />resource inventory of the riverine habitat system are: <br /> <br />American coot Fu~ica americancm <br />Raccoon Pl'ocyon ~otOl' <br />Muskrat Ondatra aibethica <br />Killdeer Cha:r>ac1'ius vooife1'U8 <br />Red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis <br />Red-winged blackbird Age~ams phoenicens <br />Common gallinule Ga~~inuZa ch~oropsus <br /> <br />Palustrine Habitat System <br /> <br />The Palustrine System includes all wetlands dominated by trees, <br />shrubs, persistent emergents, nonaquatic mosses or lichens. It also <br />includes wetlands lacking such vegetation, but with all the following <br />characteristics: 1) size less than 8 hectares; 2) absence of an active- <br />wave-formed or bedrock shoreline feature; and 3) water depth in the <br />deepest part of basin less than 2 meters at low water. <br /> <br />Species used in habitat evaluation procedures for the palustrine <br />habitat system are: <br /> <br />Red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis <br />Golden eagle AquiZa chrysaetos <br />Mourning dove Zenaidum macroura <br />Black-tailed jackrabbit Lepus ca~ifo1'nicus <br />Nuttall cottontail Sy~vi~agus nutta~~ii <br />Common raven C01'TJUS COl'ClZ <br />Gambells quail Lophorty~ gambe~ii <br />Roadrunner Geococcy~ ca~ifo1'nianus <br /> <br />Lacustrine Habitat System <br /> <br />The Lacustrine System includes wetlands and deep-water habitats with <br />all of the following characteristics: 1) situated in a topographic <br />depression or a dammed river channel; 2) lacking trees, shrubs, persist- <br />ent emergents, nonaquatic mosses or: lichens with greater than 30 percent <br />areal coverage; and 3) greater than 8 hectares (20 acres in size). <br />Similar wetlands and deep-water habitats smaller than 8 hectares are <br />also included in the Lacustrine System if an active wave-formed or <br /> <br />c-s <br /> <br />00(361 <br />