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I ~ ©Rare Earth Science, LLC <br />PO Box 1245 <br />Paonia, Colorado 81428 <br />phone 970/527-8445 <br />dawn®~areearlhsdence.com <br />October 20, 2006 <br />James E. Stover <br />J.E. Stover & Associates,lnc. <br />PO Box 60340 <br />Grand Junction, CO 81506 <br />Re: Threatened & Endangered Species Inventory <br />Bowie Resources LLC Property -Delta, Colorado <br />~ • Dear James: <br />This letter and the attached figures, photographs, and tables report the results of a threatened and <br />endangered species inventory completed by Rare Earth Science, LLC (Rare Earth), on an <br />approximately 43-acre agricultural property ("subject property') on Bowie Road in Delta County, <br />Colorado. The subject property lies within a portion of the east half of Section 14 and a portion of <br />the west half of Section 15, Township 13 North, Range 93 West of the 6'" Principal Meridian. Figure <br />1 shows the limits of the inventory. <br />On October 19, 2006, I visited the subject property to characterize its ecological setting and assess <br />the potential for presence of plant or animal species listed as threatened or endangered under the <br />federal Endangered Species Act, listed as threatened or endangered by the State of Colorado, or <br />designated by federal or state governments as candidates for listing. I included in the inventory <br />plants and animals recognized by the State of Colorado as species of special concern, species <br />recognized as sensitive by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and species considered rare by <br />the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (collectively, "species of concern"). Although only those <br />species listed as threatened or endangered by the federal or state governments have legal <br />protection status, other species of concern are of interest because of the possibility that one or <br />more could become listed in the future. <br />Ecological Setting <br />The subject properly is situated on agently-sloping narrow terrace of undifferentiated Holocene and <br />Pleistocene deposits in the upper North Fork of the Gunnison River (North Fork River) valley, and <br />ranges in elevation from approximately 5,860 to 5,940 feet above mean sea level (Figure 1). Steep <br />hills of the upper Cretaceous Mesaverde formation (sandstone, siltstone, and shale) rise to over <br />• 7,500 feet in elevation almost immediately north of the subject property and harbor the underground <br />