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CNAPTERTHREE Emlronmental Consequences <br />Pipeline Corridor <br />Raptors <br />The effects of the pipeline on raptors would be less under the Agency Preferred Alternative than <br />under the Proposed Action. Areas that have not been surveyed for nests would be surveyed prior <br />to installation of the pipeline. <br />Other Species <br />The Draft EIS addressed potential effects to mule deer, elk, mountain lion, black beaz, upland <br />game birds, waterfowl, shorebirds, and fisheries and aquatic habitats. Potential effects to these <br />species and habitats under the Agency Preferred Alternative would be the same as those <br />described for the Proposed Action. <br />Parachute Site <br />Raptors <br />Since the evaporation ponds would be netted, potential effects to raptors associated with the <br />Proposed Action from eating waterfowl exposed to hypersaline waters would be eliminated <br />under the Agency Preferred Alternative. <br />llvaterjowl and Shorebirds <br />Since the process ponds would be netted, potential effects to waterfowl and shorebirds associated <br />with the Proposed Action would be eliminated under the Agency Preferred Alternative. <br />Other Species <br />The Drift EIS addressed potential effects to mule deer, other big game, upland game birds, and <br />fisheries and aquatic habitats. Potential effects to these other species and habitats under the <br />Agency Preferred Alternative would be the same as those described for the Proposed Action. <br />3,8.2 Unavoidable Adverse Impacts <br />Piceance Site <br />Many of the potential adverse effects of the project would be mitigated by the Agency Preferred <br />Alternative. Unavoidable adverse effects include the following: <br />• Foraging habitat for mule deer and other wildlife would be eliminated in the short- or long- <br />term from areas occupies by mining and processing facilities, but it would be replaced by <br />reclamation of disturbed azeas and by habitat enhancements elsewhere. <br />• Mule deer and other wildlife would be displaced from development azeas, and migration <br />movements across the Piceance Site would be modified. <br />• Hundreds of acres of mature pinyon juniper woodland would be removed. This would <br />reduce the availability of mule deer thermal and hiding cover and of woodland raptor nesting <br />habitat, even though some of the best woodland habitat would be preserved. <br />~Idlife 3-13 <br />