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Sage grouse potentially could occur in the area, but none were record- • <br />ed. A11 grouse sightings are listed in Table 5. <br />Sharo-tailed Grouse <br />The proposed permit area and haul road lie within the overall <br />range of sharp-tailed grouse as mapped through WRIS (CDOW 1993). CDOW <br />data revealed no known leks on the proposed permit area, but one <br />active and one historic lek were within one mile of the wildlife study <br />area. These leks are shown on Exhibit 11-1, and labeled STG-1 (SE/4 <br />SE/4, Section 5) and STG-2 (NE/4 Section 9), respectively. <br />Lek searches and incidental observations at Yoast showed that <br />sharp-tailed grouse breeding activity was limited entirely to the <br />agricultural and native habitats in the lower elevations north and <br />east of the wildlife study area. During lek searches, lek STG-1 was <br />found to be active, with up to 21 birds (17 males and 4 females) in • <br />attendance. This lek is in a grassy opening in sagebrush habitat 0.25 <br />miles northeast of the proposed permit area. Historic lek STG-2, <br />approximately 0.75 miles east of the permit area, was inactive. <br />However, two new leks were discovered in the same section as inactive <br />STG-2 in 1994. Both were approximately 0.5 miles east of the wildlife <br />survey area in Section 9. One (STG-3) was on a low ridge in very tall <br />grass in a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) field in SE/4 NW/44, <br />Section 9. The other (STG-4) was on a knoll in CRP adjacent to Twen- <br />ty-mile Road, in NE/4 SE/4, Section 9. <br />Attendance at STG-1 was monitored on three days. On 18 April, 21 <br />birds (17 males and 3 females) were present. A second count on 1 May <br />showed 21 birds again present, while the third count on 16 May yielded • <br />only 6 birds. <br />20 <br />