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during the 2006 Cedar Creek grouse lek surveys. All known lek locations were checked for <br />sage-grouse breeding activity except for SG8 Upper Morgan. This lek site was not surveyed <br />because it was assumed to be the same lek as SG8 since no location coordinates were <br />provided in the CDOW data for SG8 Upper Morgan. It wasn't until after the completion of the <br />Cedar Creek surveys that it was determined that the mapped location provided by the CDOW <br />for SG8 Upper Morgan was different than the mapped location and coordinates provided for <br />SG8. <br />Cedar Creek surveys found that five of the known greater sage-grouse leks were inactive and <br />three were active in 2006. The status of SG8 Upper Morgan was not determined by the Cedar <br />Creek surveys. Survey dates, lek location coordinates, activity status, and high count data for <br />each lek are summarized in Table 1. Lek SG7 had the highest attendance count with a high <br />count of 25 males and 6 females. Lek Morgan 2A had the second largest attendance count but <br />had only five males and 2 females. Morgan 3 had the lowest count with only one male present <br />on the lek. This male flushed as soon as the survey vehicle approached near enough to <br />observe the single bird. Interestingly, the Morgan 3 lek location is within an area that has been <br />converted to grassland, which is a somewhat unusual habitat type for sage-grouse breeding <br />activity. <br />3.1.2 Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse Leks <br />• <br />A total of seven sharp-tailed grouse leks have been documented within the Collom wildlife study <br />area (see Table 1 and Figures 1A and 1 B). Known lek locations and areas of suitable habitat <br />were searched for sharp-tailed grouse breeding activity. 'Cedar Creek located two additional <br />small leks (STLEK1 and STLEK2, noted in red on Figure 1A) in 2006 in addition to the known <br />lek locations. <br />Cedar Creek surveys found that two of the known lek locations were inactive and five were <br />active in 2006, in addition to the two small new leks located in 2006. Survey dates, lek location <br />coordinates, activity status, and high count data for each sharp-tail lek are summarized in Table <br />1. The Burn lek had the highest attendance count at 37 (17 males, 20 females). The Morgan <br />and Straight Gulch had the next highest counts at 30 (18 males, 2 females, 10 unknown) and 24 <br />(15 males, 9 unknown), respectively. Only the Wilson and Jubb lek sites were found to be <br />inactive. It was assumed that breeding activity from these two sites had switched to the Wilson <br />2and Jubb 2 lek locations. <br />6