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<br />Appendix A <br />THREATENED/ENDANGERED/SENSITIVE SPECIES <br />~,n <br />~:;• <br />~:;;.. <br />c~,,.; <br />GRAND MESA, UNCOMPAHGRE, AND GUNNISON NATIONAL FORESTS <br />_. <br />!rj <br />LISTED SPECIES: Federally Listed and Candidate Species and their Status in <br />~;, Southwest Colorado (GMUG N.F.- Delta, Mesa, Montrose, Gurmison, San Miguel, <br />Ouray, Hinsdale and Saguache Counties- July 3155 2000). <br />~`', MAMMALS <br />!~ <br />~=' <br />4..i; Canada Lynx (Lvnx canadensis)- Threatened. Medium sized carnivore of mammals <br /> and birds. The lynx prefers boreal forest situations consisting of spruce-fir, lodgepole <br /> pine, and mixed aspen conifer, because its principal prey, the snowshoe hare, inhabits <br />' these sites. Eazly successional spruce/fir and lodgepole pine forests used for foraging, <br />` mature and old growth spruceffir and lodgepole pine containing lazge downed woody <br /> debris used for denning. Riparian azeas, mixed aspen conifer, mature spruce/fir, and <br /> shrublands to forested habitat also used for foraging. Likely to be found on higher <br /> elevation National Forest lands. <br />~ Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nig_ripesl-Endangered. A nocturnal mustelid which feeds <br /> on small mammals, primarily the prairie dog. Found primarily in and around prairie dog <br /> towns in the Great Plains, montane basins, and semi- grid grasslands. Very unlikely on <br /> National Forest Lands in this azea. <br /> BIILDS <br />~u <br /> Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus Zeucocephalusl-Threatened. Lazge raptor that utilizes the <br /> National Forest primarily as a spring and fall migrant and as a winter resident. Big game <br />i° <br />~~ winter ran es aze &e uented in winter and nn in this area. Usuall below 8,000 feet. <br />g 4 sP ~ g Y <br />'-"`~ Found along or neaz reservoirs and rivers. In winter, the bald eagle also uses semi- <br /> deserts, and grasslands neaz prairie dog towns. No nests known at this time on the <br />~'`,: <br />r:, National Forest, however some nesting occurring below Forest boundary. Potential for <br />`"~" foraging or nesting habitat in the area. <br />Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traili extimus). Endangered. One of <br />eight species of Empidonax all of which aze very similaz in appeazance. They aze small <br />neo-tropical migrant songbirds found below 8,500 feet in fairly lazge riparian complexes <br />along rivers, creeks, springs, and mazshes with dense thickets of tall riparian shrubs and <br />overstory of trees, surface water or saturated soils, and stream gradients less than 4%. <br />