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• Eeavers on C-22G44 would nova to morn secluded strc•.ims <br />as noise and human activity increase. Densitic_ of <br />beaver on sercams in the area are low and it is not <br />kno~m whether displaced beaver ~:ould be able to ove <br />to other streams. <br />Some of the animals uncailiing to move away from the <br />site would be injured or killed by the trucks and <br />other heavy equipment used to develop the mine. <br />Sorrowing animals, suc}i as :nice, rabbits, and =ophers, <br />would be especially vulnerable as they would r__reat <br />into shallow underground dens to escape and woc'_d be <br />crushed by trucks or earth-moving equipment. 2opula- <br />lions of burro:aing animals found on the tract would be <br />• greatly reduced due to the short reproductive cycle <br />of most of these anima'_s; repopulation of the area <br />would be fairly rapid once reclamation would be begun <br />• <br />Raptors nesting on land adjacent to where mini^g <br />activity would take place would be disturbed by noise <br />and activity and probably renest in another area. It <br />would be expected that these birds would be able to <br />find alternate nesting sites. Loss of hunting terri- <br />tory would be locally significant. <br />Eig game habitat would be destroyed as mining crogres- <br />ses. Deer and elk would leave the tract as veneration <br />is removed. This area is fair deer habitat, but it is <br />136 <br /> <br />