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• <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />Bill Owens, Governor <br />DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES <br />DIVISION OF WILDLIFE <br />AN EOUAL OPPOPTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />John W. Mumma, Director <br />6060 Broadway <br />Denver, Colorado 80216 <br />Te I eph one: 13031 29 7-1 19 2 <br />January 18, 2000 <br />State of Colorado <br />Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Dear Sirs: <br />For l4ild/ije- <br />For People <br />DMJ General Contractors Inc. has asked the Division of Wildlife to review the proposed gravel pit <br />operation on the MY Ranch (Jim Yust) near Kremmling, Colorado. This tract is in the <br />NEl/4SW1/4 Section 19, Township 1 North, Range 80 West of the 6'" P.M. in Grand County. The <br />proposed operation is to be 9.900 acres more or less. <br />The Division of Wildlife feels [he immediate area serves as critical deer and elk winter range. <br />However, the impacts to these animals should be minimal due to the existing agricultural practice, <br />the small area of disturbance, the lay of the land and an existing agricultural road that will be used <br />as the access road to the pit. <br />There is a sage grouse lek (breeding ground) located less than ',G of a mile away on land <br />administered by the Bureau of Land Management (SE1/4 Section 19, Township 1 North, Range 80 <br />West) that could be possibly affected by the gravel pit operation. This lek is on the ridge and the <br />gravel pit and access road would be on a bench below it. The gravel pit would be the closest to the <br />lek with the access road leading away from the lek area. The period of concern would be when the <br />grouse are on the lek in early March through May. Recent concern about the status of Sage Grouse <br />in the western U.S. has raised the possibility that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may ultimately <br />DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Greg Watcher, Executive Director <br />WILDLIFE COMMISSION, Chuck Lewis, Chairman • Mark LeValley, Vice-Chairman • Bernard L. Black Jr., Secretary <br />Rick Enstrom, Member •,Philip James Member • Marianna Raftopoulos, Member <br />Arnold Salazar, Member • Bob Shoemaker, Member <br />