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Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement I Federal Coal Lease Modifications COC -1362 & COC -67232 <br />3.9.7 Consistency with Forest Plan and Other Laws <br />All alternatives are consistent with the 1991 GMUG Forest Plan. <br />3.10 Threatened & Endangered Species <br />There are numerous wildlife species which occur in the project area which are not special status species <br />and are not addressed in the Biological Assessment, Biological Evaluation, Management Indicator <br />Species Assessment, or in the Migratory Bird evaluation for this project. Specific species that <br />commenters noted including beavers, bears, and deer are not special status species for the USFS. They <br />are not on any species list which triggers analysis. Therefore, they were not analyzed. While these <br />species are not individually addressed herein, they are considered during project planning and <br />evaluation. These species are anticipated to be impacted similarly to species described in the analysis, <br />through habitat loss or alteration (positively or negatively depending on species), through disturbance <br />from noise, light, and human presence from project sites or equipment, and from vehicular traffic <br />associated with the project. None of these species are anticipated to be impacted at the population level, <br />and lease stipulations used for this project will in most cases reduce impacts to those species. <br />A Forest species list was provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on 9 May 2008 (USDI 2008b). A <br />list was collected by the GMUG on May 14, 2015, from the USFWS website, and was checked against <br />the USFWS website on February 19, 2016 to ensure currency. There are no changes to the species <br />originally evaluated for this project. <br />The Gunnison Sage -grouse, which is now on the GMUG list, does not occur nor is there any habitat for <br />it in the project area. The nearest population is south of Crawford. Information can be found at: <br />lit!ps://www.fws.p,ov/mountain-prairie/species/birds/aLinnisonsap,ep,rouseiCjl:SC.iI-itia]Listiiip-Rule_1120201 k.pdi' <br />The yellow -billed cuckoo was listed as threatened (Western DPS) effective November 2014 <br />(https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pk FR-2014-10-03/pdf/2014-236.40.gdf). And the cuckoo has critical habitat <br />proposed in the North Fork, but not within the project area, on Aug 15, 2015, but that has not been <br />finalized (ltt s://w�vw.Li)o.,ov/fdsyslpkgFR-2014-08-15/pdf/2014-19178.pdf]. <br />Tables have been updated accordingly. There is only one federally listed species that has the potential <br />to be found in the project area, the Canada lynx. Other species considered are shown in Table 3-26. As <br />these species do not occur in the project area and no habitat for them will be impacted by the project, <br />these species were not further analyzed in this document. These species would all have no effect <br />determinations. <br />184 <br />