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May 24, 2001 Ross Bjerke Banks and Gesso, LLC 720 Kipliong Street, Suite 117 Lakewood, CO 80215 Dear Mr. Bjerke: ~ Colo c~o ftiiC}. Colurtdo Natural Heritage Program College of Natural Resources 254 General Services Fort Collins, Colorado 8052)-6021 (970)491-1J09 F.4X: (970) 491-J,149 xww~.cnh p. colostate.ed u The Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) is in receipt of your request for information regarding the proposed reclamation permit for the 124'h Estates. In response, CNHP has searched its Biological and Conservation Datasystem (BCD) for natural heritage resources (occurrences of significant natural communities and rare, threatened or endangered plants and animals) documented from the vicinity of the project area. The enclosed report describes natural heritage resources known from the area and gives location (by Township, Range, and Section), precision of the locational information, and the date of last observation at that location. Please note that "precision" reflects the resolution of original data. For example, an herbarium record from "4 miles east of Colorado Springs" provides much less spatial information than a topographic map showing the exact location of the occurrence. "Precision" codes of Seconds, Minutes. and General are defined in the report footer "1'he. reports also outline the status of the known elements. We have included status according to Natural liertage Program methodology and legal status under state and federal statutes. Natural Heritage ranks a:e standardized across the Heritage Program network, and are assigned for global and state levels of rarity. They range from "I" for critically imperiled or extremely rare elements, to "5" for those that are demonstrably secure. There is one CNHP designated Potential Conservation Area located in the general vicinit}• of your project area (see enclosed Site Record). In order to successfully protect populations or occurrences, it is necessary to delineate conservation areas. These conservation areas focus on capturing the ecological processes that are necessary to support the continued existence of a particular element of natural heritage significance. Conservation areas may include a single occurrence of a rare element or a suite of rare elements or significant features. The goal of the process is to identify a land area that can provide the habitat and ecological processes upon which a particular element or suite of elements depends for their continued existence. The best available knowledge of each species' life history is used in conjunction with information about topographic, geomorphic, and hydrologic features, vegetative cover, as well as current and potential land uses. Consideration of specific activities or land use changes proposed within or adjacent to the preliminary conservation planning boundary should be carefully considered and evaluated for their consequences to the element on which the conservation unit is based.