Laserfiche WebLink
• pounds of air dry forage in 1978. The same site produced 2,626 <br />pounds of forage in 1979. These data compare favorably with the <br />range potential for the site, specified by the II.S. Soil <br />Coneervation Service as 2,000 pounds of forage per acre. Dames and <br />Moore (1975) sampled an undisturbed sagebrush site on the vent side <br />of Fish Creek and reported that the [oral forage production vas 917 <br />pounds of forage per acre. The data confirm the fact that even <br />without inputs of water and fertilizer, forage production on <br />reclaimed sites can be expected to equal or ezceed values found on <br />undisturbed sites. <br />Destruction of Noo-Migratory Wildlife <br />• Although non-migratory wildlife species inevitably decrease <br />during mining, the prolific reproductive ability of these eite- <br />specific species results in the rapid reestablishment of premise <br />populations once reclamation commences. The overall effect of <br />reclamation for small non-mobile ~-~--ls, will be an increase in <br />available habitat and an increase is densities. <br />Displacement of lfobile Wildlife Species <br />Wildlife utilizing the is®ediate area of disturbance have been <br />displaced during mining, However, little further disturbance is <br /> ezpected. This displacement may produce some negative impacts on <br />• the adjacent range due to concentrations of wildlife. The ability <br />2.05 - 120 <br />