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Historically, grazing pressure has been heavy in the Dry Creek drainage and adjacent alkaline <br />shrublands. A portion of the permit area is lightly grazed. A variety of wildlife species use the <br />area's rangeland and seeded cropland areas. The Yampa Valley Airport is located one-quarter <br />mile northeast of the permit area. The Loadout currently has a special use permit and is in <br />compliance with the land use plans of both Routt County and the Town of Hayden. Portions of <br />U.S. Highway 40 and Routt County Road 37 cross portions of the permit area. <br />Postmining land uses will consist of livestock grazing on pasture land and rangeland, as well as <br />wildlife habitat and cropland. <br />Wildlife <br />Detailed information on matters relating to fish and wildlife issues is found in Tabs 11 and 21 <br />and Exhibit 11-1 of the PAP. A summary of that information is found both here and in Section <br />B, Item XII of this document (along with findings to fish and wildlife issues). <br />Four habitat types have been distinguished and described for the permit area: 1) aquatic areas <br />associated with streams and impoundments, 2) saline/alkaline shrublands, 3) saline/alkaline <br />meadows and 4) areas disturbed as a result of construction of the Loadout, abandoned croplands <br />and lands improved for pasture. Lists of possible species of mammals, birds, reptiles and <br />amphibians of non-critical concern have been constructed using distribution lat/long studies <br />developed for the State of Colorado. <br />A biological inventory of stream bottom fauna for Dry Creek was conducted in association with <br />the permit application for the nearby Seneca II -W Mine (Permit No. C-1982-057). All listed <br />threatened or endangered species in the area, as well as other species of concern, have been <br />referred to in the permit and their habitat requirements and potential for occurrence described (as <br />requested by both the Division and USFWS). For information on protection afforded to Dry <br />Creek's aquatic community and any threatened and endangered species and other species of <br />concern possible present, please refer to Section B, Item XII of this document. <br />X <br />