2021-05-20_PERMIT FILE - C1981035 ‎(17)‎

• Permit No: C1981035
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/20/2021
• Doc Name: Fish and Wildlife Information
• Section_Exhibit Name: KII Appendix 08
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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SpeciesPotential to Occur
Plants
In dry, open areas with clay, sandy, or gravelly
Jones' bluestar
soils, in desert -steppe, rocky gorges and
No desert -steppe, rocky gorges or
(Amsonia jonesii)
canyons. Elevation range: 4,436 - 5,784 feet.
canyons in the project areas.
Flowers in late April and May.
Occurs on sandstone ledges, crevices of
Naturita milkvetch
sandstone bedrock, dry rock mesas, ledges,
No sandstone ledges or bedrock in the
(Astragalus naturitensis)
and detrital slopes. Elevation range: 4,829 -
project areas.
7,027 feet. Flowers April through early June,
fruits in late May through early June.
Found on the grayish, near -barren gypsum
hills of the Paradox Member of the Hermosa
Gypsum Valley cateye
Formation and other barren shale substrates
No Paradox Member formation soils in
(Oreocarya reveolii)
in western Colorado. Elevation Range: 5,394 -
the project areas.
6,788 feet. Plants flower in May and produce
fruit in June.
Found scattered on moss and duff, in the
shade of moist coniferous forests. Also found
Fragile rockbrake
in crevices in calcareous rocks in shaded
Preferred elevation range is higher
(Cryptogromma stelleri)
localities with dripping water. Elevation range:
than the project areas.
7,825 - 13,458 feet. New growth produced in
spring, dying by late summer.
Occurs in wet, saline soils in alcoves, seeps,
Kachina fleabane
and hanging gardens on sandstone cliffs and
No wetlands, seeps or canyons in the
(Erigeron kochinensis)
canyon walls. Elevation Range: 4,700 - 6,700
project areas.
feet. Flowering occurs in May -August.
Sandy to heavy clay washes, hills, and slopes;
also on shales. Occurs on the Cutler Formation
Comb Wash buckwheat
as well as the Mancos Shale Formation. Found
No Cutler or Mancos Shale formation
(Eriogonum clovellatum)
within shadscale, blackbrush, and saltbush
derived soils in the project areas.
communities. Elevation Range: 4,813 - 6,033
feet. Flowering May -June.
This species is found on outcrops of grayish,
argillaceous, bare Mancos Shale outcrops with
Lone Mesa snakeweed
thin soil over the shale. Elevation range: 7,526
No Mancos Shale outcrops in the
(Gutierrezio elegans)
- 7,808 feet. Flowers July through early
project areas.
September; fruits are produced in August and
September.
Occurs on Mancos Shale, open clay barrens
Pagosa Springs
surrounded by montane grasslands,
Mancos Shale outcrops in the
bladderpod
sometimes in open ponderosa pine stands
(Physaria pruinosa)
with Gambel's oak, it can also be associated
project areas.
pr
with Douglas fir and Englemann spruce
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