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• GOLDEN EAGLE NESTING <br />Two golden eagle nests have been found proximate to each other on a cliff in SW ~/a SEA/a, <br />Section 7, TSN, R87W; less than 1000 feet from the Yoast Mine permit boundary (Exhibit 1). <br />The nests are in a single golden eagle territory. One of the nests was active and the other was two <br />and alternate in 1997. Eagles were observed incubating on the active nest in April. It is not <br />known how many young hatched or fledged from that nest later in the year. <br />Sandhill Crane Activity <br />In spring 1997, as in previous years, a pair of cranes was observed along drainage <br />bottomland in Sections 4, 8, and 9, TSN, R87W; those locations are approximately 0.25 miles <br />east of the Yoast haul road. Although the birds were feeding and walking together, but no <br />courtship displays were observed. Surveys completed in 1993 and 1996 indicated that cranes <br />frequented that drainage in spring, but did not nest there or anywhere else in the immediate <br />vicinity of Yoast. It is unlikely that any cranes nested near Yoast in 1997. <br /> <br />1997 Yoast Mine Wildlife Monitoring Page 8 <br />