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• the American peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum), listed October 13, <br />1970, and December 2, 1970, and the black-footed ferret (Mustela nierioes), <br />listed in March 1 1, 1967, and December 2, 1970. the Fish and Wildlife Service <br />has published an unofficial list summarizing the Federal Register listings of <br />January 4, 1974.34 <br />The State of Colorado Division of Wildlife has listed the summer nesting resident <br />white pelican and the greater sandhill crane as endangered in Colorado. There is <br />a colony of white pelicans (Pelecanus ervthrorh, ny cos) that inhabit an island in <br />Riverside Reservoir (approximately 12 miles northeast of the proposed mine site) <br />in Weld County. This breeding colony, which totaled 800 individuals during <br />1974, remains on the island from March or April until November. Since this is <br />the only pelican colony in Colorado, the Division of Wildlife is interested in <br />propagating the species. An attempt has been made to establish an additional <br />colony through transplants of fledglings to a recently constructed island in Lower <br />Latham Reservoir southeast of Greeley.35 Northern bald eagles were also <br />observed within the Narrows Project area and receive Federal protection through <br />the Bald Eagle Act, as amended (16 U.S. 668-668d). <br />C. Reptiles and Amphibians <br />Reptile and amphibian species most common to the site are listed by vegetative <br />• community as follows: <br />Prairie -bull snake, western box turtle, plains spadefoot toad, hognose snake, <br />lesser earless lizard, short-horned lizard, and six-lined racerunner lizard. <br />Oaen Park -racer, red-sided garter snake, plains garter snake, and plains <br />spadefoot toad. <br />Open Cottonwood -bull snake, six-lined racerunner lizard, Woodhouse's toad, <br />and racer. <br />Closed Cottonwood -six-lined racerunner lizard, red-sided garter snake, and bull <br />snake. <br />Mixed Willow-Cottonwood -red-sided garter snake, plains garter snake, <br />Woodhouse's toad, plains spadefoot toad, racer, bull snake, and six-lined <br />racerunner lizard. <br />"United States List of Endangered Fauna, Fish and Wildlife Service (Washington 1974), 22, as <br />. cited in Narrows Unit. <br />J5 Bartell Nyberg, "Yes, Pelicans in Colorado," Empire Maeazine (Denver Post supplement) <br />16 March 1975, 28-32, as cited in Narrows Unit. <br />96 <br />