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SENECA {t-4 THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES E%HIBIT D The following Is an excerpt from the Seneca ll-V 4ildlife Baseline Information section o! the Seneca 11-V mine permit application. Threatened or Endangered Species No federally listed threatened ar endang6~ed animal species are likely to occur on the study area. The hold eagle is known to winter along the Yampa River and may occasionally wander over the study area, but suitable habitat for wintering bald eagles is not present on the Seneca 11.4 study area. Although not listed as threatened or endangered, the golden eagle has been given the same legal protection as the bald eagle 6y virtue of its inclusion in the Bald Eagle Protection Act. Golden eagles have keen shown to utilise [hc study area, and one active nest was found in Hubberson Gulch. The greater sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) is listed as endangered by the S[a[c of Colorado and may rarely wander onto the study area. Sandhill cranes are known to utilise portions of the Yampa River Valley for migration and for dancing and staging areas. Vildlife Resources Information (Inventory Neps) obtained from the [DDV classifies the Yampa River north of the permit area as a migration zone. The area to the west of [hc confluence of Sage trcek and the Yampa River in the vicinity of the Hayden Dower Station is designated as a dancing ground and migration zone. Nesting by approximately three sandhill cranes occurs below the Sage Creek Reservoir Dam (CDOV Vildlife Resources Information). The status o} the state-endangered greater sandhill crane waa summarized by Bieninsz -~ (1979). Aecordfng to her discussion, tha Morgan Bottom ores near Hayden, Colorado is a • tradit(ona( migration staging arcs for the greater sandhill crane. The area is used by approximately 250 cranes during April, May, and September. The birds roost a[ night in meadows adjacent to the Tampa River and disperse during daytime to tr.nyrt~:nal congreation areas. One such area, used for leeding, lonling, and courtship act r. it i~•; ~, located near the proposed haul road, between 0.5. Highway CO and County Road 514. ..x r,t on maps, Dicniesz (1979), the proposed haul road would pass within about 0.75 Hilt or t•,e crane use area (Exhibit 11.1).