2016-02-03_PERMIT FILE - C1981038 ‎(6)‎

• Permit No: C1981038
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 2/3/2016
• Section_Exhibit Name: Volume 9A Environmental Resources - Fish & Wildlife Appendix
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

J. E. Stover & Associates, Inc
December 1, 2015
Page 2
Table 1. State- and federally -listed threatened &, endangered' species potentially occurring in the vicinity of
the Bowie No. 1 Mine permit boundary.
* Although no habitat is present within the mine permit boundary for these species, downstream designated critical habitat for the four
endangered fishes is affected by the mine's water consumption.
1 Federally -listed species shown on this table were generated from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Information for Planning and
Conservation web portal at http://ecos.fws.govriipaelproject/45H2TPTTIVFRTHEK6JJ76X6VJU/resources; State endangered, threatened,
and candidate species compiled from CPWs threatened and endangered list at http://cpw.state.co.us/leam/Pages/SOC-
Threatened EndangeredList. aspx
2 Status explanation: FE = Federally listed as endangered; FT = Federally listed as threatened; SE = State -listed as endangered; ST =
State -listed as threatened; no Candidate species are found in the area of analysis
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Habitat
Common Name
Scientific Name
Status
Habitat Requirement Summary
within Permit
Boundary?
•
Boundary
Yellow -billed
CoccyzusFT
Low elevation river corridors with fairly
inteProposed
cuckoo
americanus
extensive mature cottonwood galleries
Critical
Fishes
Habitat
Bonytail
Gila elegans
FE, SE
Colorado & Gunnison Rivers
No*
pikColora o
Ptychocheilus lucius
FE, SE
Colorado & Gunnison Rivers
No*
Greenback
Onchorhynchus
Cold water streams and cold water lakes with
No, but
habitat is
cutthroat trout
clarki stomias
FT, ST
adequate stream spawning habitat present
down -
during spring
gradient
Humpback chub
Gila cypha
FE, SE
Colorado & Gunnison Rivers
No*
Razorback sucker
Xyrauchen texanus
FE, SE
Colorado & Gunnison Rivers
No*
Mammals
Spruce/fir/mixed conifer/lodgepole pine
Marginally
Canada lynx
Lynx canadensis
FT, SE
forests (primary), or mixed deciduous/conifer
suitable
(secondary)
In Delta County, semi -desert shrublands in
Kit fox
Vulpes macrotis
SE
Peach Valley and adobe badlands north of
No
City of Delta
Riparian, with stream flows above 50 cubic
Northern river otter
Lontra canadensis
ST
feet per second and supporting abundant
Yes
food base of fish or crustaceans
Amphibians
BufoLakes,
ponds, wet meadows, and wetlands in
Marginally
Boreal toad
bore s bore ss)
boreas boreas
SE
subalpine forests (aspen, spruce -fir,
suitable
Plants
lodgepole pine, usually above 8,500 feet)
Adobe soils (Mancos shale) of the Colorado
Colorado hookless
Sclerocactus
FT
and Gunnison river valleys, most commonly
No
cactus
glaucus
associated with semi -desert shrublands
(primarily shadscale and mat saltbush)
* Although no habitat is present within the mine permit boundary for these species, downstream designated critical habitat for the four
endangered fishes is affected by the mine's water consumption.
1 Federally -listed species shown on this table were generated from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Information for Planning and
Conservation web portal at http://ecos.fws.govriipaelproject/45H2TPTTIVFRTHEK6JJ76X6VJU/resources; State endangered, threatened,
and candidate species compiled from CPWs threatened and endangered list at http://cpw.state.co.us/leam/Pages/SOC-
Threatened EndangeredList. aspx
2 Status explanation: FE = Federally listed as endangered; FT = Federally listed as threatened; SE = State -listed as endangered; ST =
State -listed as threatened; no Candidate species are found in the area of analysis
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