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_ ._ <br />C <br />is relatively small and probably could not support over one pair o_° water- <br />fowl in a given year, do waterfowl nests or broods were located on the <br />study area in 1979. Due to tine lack of waterfowl and riparian areas, the <br />study area cannot be considered good as terfcr„rl habitat. The largest perennial <br />water body harboring waterfowl populations near the study area is t'ae t'liguel <br />River, approximately six miles southwest of the Nucla mine. <br />BIG GAt~ STJD7FG <br />Mule deer is the only resident big game species on the study area. Elk may <br />rarely occur on habitats near file study area but none have teen reported on <br />the study area to date (personal cor~namiication, March 1980, Rich Sherman, <br />DOW). E1X were sighted in apinyon-juniper area approximately two miles <br />myth and east of the study area during the winter, 1978 (personal mmmanication, <br />May 1979, Mr. Fritz Nyland, local resident; personal commuiication, May 1979, <br />Mrs. Framis Fort, local resident). tioweves, winter habitat for el)c moving <br />da..m from rlae Mountains to the mrth and east is considered marginal by the <br />• DOW (personal oonmunication, :arch 1980, Rich Shezman, DOW). <br />Mule deer are year-round residents of habitats in the vicinity of Nucla mine <br />and are coMnon in pinyon-juniper woodlands east of the study area. Mule deer <br />were heavily concentrated in these woodlands during the winter, 1980. Only <br />three Hole deer were observed in the vicinity of the study area during 1979- <br />1980 investications G'•7ap 11-2, Appendix A) although traC~CS and droppings were <br />f~~P*+t1y encountered on the eastern boundary of the permit area_ Popula- <br />tion estimates are not available, :yowever (personal coMmivtication, Diarch 1980, <br />Rich Sherman, DGS9). 'Good mule deer habitat does not exist on the study area; <br />the habitat imrediately surrounding the study area is considered only <br />marginal. <br />MAC+i~L4I,Ir1~i PRIDAZ~ORS <br />The scent-station visitation tec;vaique (Linhart and Knowlton 1973) was used <br />to detexmine the presence and relative abur~~ce of ma-maliva predatArs <br />_Gp_ <br />Jt1A 1 1 1fl8U <br />• (Revised July 2006) Attachment 2.04.11-1-47 <br />