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THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES HABITAT ASSESSMENT <br />BEARSON PROPERTY <br />WELD COUNTY, COLORADO <br />consultations for effects to candidate species; however, if a species were to become listed <br />during project planning or construction, consultation with the Service would be required. <br />Current Service guidelines describe occupied Preble's habitat as an area 300 feet beyond <br />the 100 -year floodplain for a distance of 1 mile upstream and downstream of a known <br />population of Preble's. The Service requires surveys for Ute ladies' -tresses orchid <br />ULTO) in areas of suitable habitat in Colorado on the 100 -year floodplains of the South <br />Platte River, Fountain Creek, and Yampa River and their perennial tributaries (Service <br />1992). <br />Methods <br />Ron Beane, Senior Wildlife Biologist, and Moneka Worah, Natural Resources <br />Specialist, with ERO performed an endangered species habitat assessment on the Bearson <br />property in Weld County on July 12, 2012 (2012 site visit). In addition to the information <br />gathered during the 2012 site visit, information on threatened and endangered species was <br />obtained from existing sources such as the Colorado Natural Diversity Information <br />Source (NDIS), known locations of Preble's populations and survey efforts (Service <br />2011), the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP), and other sources. Based on the <br />information gathered from existing sources and the 2012 site visit, ERO identified <br />existing vegetation communities and important habitat attributes of the project area for <br />the listed and candidate species listed in Table I (Figure 2). <br />2