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TES and BLMSensilive Species Survey Report-Oxbow Elk Creek Mine £xplormion Project <br />GVB-LW03-02 is located on Oxbow property. Table 1 provides the legal description of the well <br />sites located on BLM lands. Access roads to these locations will spur from existing roads and <br />are proposed as part of this development. The proposed well sites and access roads would be <br />constructed on BLM lands. <br />SITE DESCRIPTION <br />The approximate elevations for the proposed well sites and road improvements range between <br />6,200 and 8,200 feet. The land within the project area is chazacterized by grassy clearings <br />surrounded by dense scrub oak vegetation and steep hillsides with pinyon juniper woodlands, <br />aspen, Douglas ftr, ponderosa pine forest. The azea proposed for the well sites and access roads <br />are currently grazed by sheep. <br />LISTED SPECIES <br />The purpose of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is to conserve the ecosystems upon which <br />TES depend and to conserve and recover listed species. Under the law, species may be listed as <br />either endangered or threatened. An endangered species is one that is in danger of extinction <br />within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. A threatened <br />species is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a <br />significant portion of its range. Candidate species are those that have been studied and that the <br />United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) concluded should be proposed for listing as <br />endangered or threatened. <br />The FWS has identified 10 federally-listed threatened, endangered, or candidate species for <br />listing that may occur in Gunnison County, and 12 federally listed species that may occur in <br />Delta County (USFWS, 2004x). Table 2 identifies these species and their federal status. <br />Table 2 Federally-Listed Species Potentially Occurring in the Project Area <br />Common Name Scientific Name County `Status ,: ' ~ <br />Bald ea le Haliaeetus leucoce halus Delta, Gunnison Threatened <br />Gunnison sa e- rouse Centrocercus minimus Delta, Gunnison Candidate <br />Yellow-billed Cuckoo Cocc zus americanus Delta, Gunnison Candidate <br />Black-footed ferret Mustela ni ri es Della Threatened <br />Canada 1 x L nx Canadensis Delta, Gunnison Threatened <br />Boreal toad Bu o Koreas boreas Delta, Gunnison Candidate <br />Bon ail chub Gila ele ans Delta, Gunnison Endan ered <br />Hum back chub Gila c ha Delta, Gunnison Endan ered <br />Colorado ikeminnow Ptychocheilus /ucius Delta, Gunnison Endan ered <br />Razorback sucker X rauchen texanus Della, Gunnison Endan ered <br />Uinta Basin hookless cactus Sclerocactus laucus Delta Threatened <br />Cla -lovin wild buckwheat Erio onum elino hilum Delta Endan ered <br />Uncom~ah re fritilla butterfl Boloria acrocnema Gunnison Endan ered <br />OxWw Elk Creek Mine ExpansionA Kn rES and Sensitive Sp¢iu survey 2 <br />