PERMFILE48738

• Permit No: C1981026
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: FISH & WILDLIFE RESOURCES INFORMATION
• Section_Exhibit Name: APPENDIX G
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Fish and Wildlife Plan
Wyoming Fuel Company proposes to undertake a
combination of activities intended to counteract the
effects of disruption of the natural environment.
"Mitigation" is herein understood to include 1) avoiding
adverse impacts by not taking a certain action or parts of
an action (preventive), 2) minimizing impacts by limiting
the magnitude of the action, 3) reducing or eliminating
the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations,
and 4) finally, rectifying the impact by repairing, restoring,
or rehabilitating the affected environment (reclamation),
as recommended by the findings of the mitigation symposium
(Jahn 1979}.
Emphasis in mitigation will be placed on the
avoidance of long-term impacts - to restore and reclaim
the affected site in a manner conducive to 1) enhancement
of the natural environment, and 2) maintenance of biological
diversity.
Other activities are intended to avoid short-term
impacts. The regulatory agencies have drawn our attention
to the economically important species, and sage grouse in
particular. At the same time, the multiple purpose planning
objectives of the Bureau of Land Management require that
attention be paid to all components of the ecosystem. The
task presented to Wyoming Fuel Company is to direct mitigation
measures toward the economically valuable species, while
preserving the biological diversity of the area - in short,
to develop a "featured species plan" (Zeedyk and Hazel 1974)
within a broader "plan for species richness" (Evans 1974).
Clearly contraindicated, therefore, are measures which would
substantially alter the ecosystem, create instability, or
which are untested and therefore the environmental impacts
are unknown. Emphasis must be placed on economically extensive
measures which contribute to ecological stability.
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