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improvements and drilling should have no impact on the pond and thus no impact on this spcxies <br />• if it were to occur. <br />Rartors <br />?\o nests +vere located during sun•cys of the aspen stands along the road and near the drill site. <br />Some portions of the stand further from the road appeared to have conditions more suitable for <br />nesting accipitcrs, but no nests were located. <br />Ih~ill tiitt• 11'99-I6 <br />\\ ell litc and :\cccss Road Ilahitat tiurvcv <br />'Ibis site is located along a ridge top adjacent to the Dove Gulch Ponderosa Pine Plantation at <br />approximately 77(10 feet.:1n estimated Gj0 feet of access road has been constructed to the drill <br />site. The area is dry with no +eater fcatuns ++ithin the sun•cy area. 1"hc habitat is dominated b}~ <br />late-seral stage oakbrush, serviceberrv• and chokecherry north of the drill site and road. lltcre is <br />a good undentory of gtasses and fortis in this area. <br />:~ dra+v is located in the northeast quadnm of the survey area with a relatively decadent stand of <br />±0-50 Too[ aspen" The c:mopy is open and there arc several snags. "Ihe drill site is ++cll buftcrcd <br />to the north by a band of dense, tall oakbrush, scrviceberry and chokechcm~ which will protect <br />the areas bclo++• from disturbance by drilling activities. The south halt'of the sun•cy site is <br />• predominantly ponderosa pine. "Iltcrc is c+•idcncc of considerable elk use and a limited amount <br />~~1'dccr uu. 'I'bis area probably receives the greatest amount of use during the fall and spring <br />v:utsition periods. <br />Tltc young age structure and size of the ponderosa pines in the stand provided little suitable <br />nesting habitat 1br birds. During all bird sun•cys and nesting raptor surveys no nests were <br />obscn•cd within these stands. <br />13crutsc of the slopes and vegetative buffers found in the area, there should fx minimal impacts <br />of drilling operations on wildlife. <br />• <br />