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Alternatives <br />Table 2-2 <br />Design Criteria <br />Topic Design Criteria for the Proposed Action <br />Monitoring Wells However, if it is decided by the Forest Service that groundwater monitoring is <br /> required by the state permit, drill holes may be used as monitoring wells. <br />WILDLIFE <br />Threatened, Appropriate populations or habitats will be surveyed on asite-specific basis prior to <br />Endangered and any ground disturbing activities and appropriate avoidance, buffering or other <br />Sensitive Faunal restrictions will be applied if threatened or endangered faunal species or their habitats <br />Species are present.* <br /> Water depletions of the Colorado River System as they pertain to the four endangered <br /> fishes (associated with MDW drilling and shaft construction) have previously been <br /> consulted upon with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in a programmatic biological <br /> opinion. <br /> Avoid or minimize impacts to lynx habitat.' <br /> Restrict use to designated routes where over-snow access is required to protect lynx. ' <br /> Minimize snow compaction during MDW monitoring to protect lynx. Use remote <br /> monitoring of sites if possible. ' <br /> Restore suitable lynx habitat during reclamation activities. Reclaim and obliterate <br /> project roads at project completion. <br /> Close project-created roads to public access in lynx habitat. ' <br /> Pre-disturbance surveys would be completed within the potentially impacted <br /> delineated wetland and two intermittent lakes, as specified by the Forest Service, to <br /> ensure that northern leopard populations are not adversely impacted. In the event that <br /> breeding northetn leopard frog populations are documented within the surveyed <br /> wetlands, disturbances to these wetland areas would be postponed until early June and <br /> the completion of the breeding season (CDOW 2003). <br />Deer & Elk Winter Irregular-shaped pads will be used to maximize edge-effect habitat. <br />Range Minimize disturbance and access during crucial winter months to avoid stressing <br /> animals. <br /> Exploration, drilling and development will not occur between December 1 and April <br /> 30, unless specifically approved.* <br /> Habitat management and creation, if part of the Reclamation Plan, shall be directed <br /> toward encouraging the diversity of both game and non-game species, and shall <br /> provide protection, rehabilitation or improvement of wildlife habitat. <br /> To avoid collisions with game, MCC is encouraged to consider shift changes outside <br /> of dawn/dusk. <br />Raptors (including Surveys will be conducted in appropriate habitats prior to construction activities. If <br />Goshawks) nests are discovered, they will be appropriately buffered depending on species and/or <br /> will have timing restrictions placed on activities. <br /> In the event that a northern goshawk nest is identified during pre-disturbance surveys, <br /> nests would be protected by implementing a no-disturbance buffer of/< mile radius <br /> around the active nest site between the dates of March 1 and July 31. <br />Breeding/Migratory MCC will walk all areas to be disturbed during the breeding/nesting seasons to <br />Birds determine if there are nests (especially ground nests) present. If nests are occupied <br /> operations may be modified to avoid disturbance to the nesting birds. <br />' Deer Creek Ventilation Shaft and E Seam Methane Drainage Wells DEIS 25 <br />