2008-12-05_PERMIT FILE - M2008082 (4)

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WILDLIFE RESOURCES ASSESSMENT MORTON LAKES PROPERTY WELD COUNTY, COLORADO • Small mammals • Breeding birds protected by the MBTA including eagles and other raptors Wildlife corridors and other wildlife-related issues • Results and Discussion ERO assessed the project area for the presence of habitat suitable for state and federally listed threatened endangered and sensitive species described below. Federal Threatened, Endangered and Candidate Species Several species that potentially occur in Weld County are considered endangered, threatened, or candidate species of concern by the Service (Table 1). The project area does not contain suitable habitat or fall within the expected range and distribution for the majority of these species listed by the Service Table 1. Federally threatened, endangered, and candidate species potentially found in Weld Countv or notentialiv affected by nroiects in Weld Countv. Common Name Scientific Name States` Habitat F Suitable Habitat Present Mammals Black-footed ferret Mustela nigripes TE, SE Active prairie dog towns No - Within Block Clearance Preble's meadow Zapus hudsonius FT, SE Shrub riparian/wet Yes - Southeast of jumping mouse preblei meadows Big Dry Creek Birds Interior least tern" Sterna antillarum FE Sandy/pebble beaches on No - Area lacks athalassos lakes, reservoirs, and rivers suitable nesting Piping plover" Charadrius FT Sandy lakeshore beaches, substrate - Big Dry melodus river sandbars Creek incised Whooping crane** Grus americana FE Mudflats around reservoirs No - Area lacks and in agricultural areas foraging or secure roosting habitat Fish Pallid sturgeon" Scaphirhynchus FE Large, turbid, free-flowing No - No large rivers, albus rivers with a strong current Big Dry Creek has a and gravel or sandy silt/mud substrate substrate • ERO 5 Resources (orporofion