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RULE 2 PERMITS <br />• Literary review indicated that peregrine falcons may use the revision area for foraging habitat. Preferred <br />foraging areas are located adjacent to open areas neaz rivers, marshes, and coasts. Cliffs and man-made <br />structures are the preferred nesting habitat for the peregrine falcon. Several areas within the permit <br />revision area would provide habitat for falcons; however, no nesting locations have been identified within <br />the revision area. <br />Whooping cranes roost, forage, and nest in and adjacent to wetland areas. Selected sites are limited <br />almost exclusively to open areas with few to no visual obstructions located away from human disturbance <br />areas. Whooping cranes migrate south during in the fall for the winter months and return during the <br />spring for nesting and brood rearing. Several wetland areas are within the permit revision area; however, <br />these areas are typically surzounded with vegetation and steep slopes which create visual obstructions. <br />Cranes may utilize these azeas for short periods during migration; however, the area is not expected to <br />provide long-term or critical habitat for whooping cranes. <br />Yellow-billed cuckoos migrate south during the winter and return in the summer for brood reazing. <br />Preferred nesting and foraging azeas of the cuckoo is typically confined to relatively expansive stands of <br />mature cottonwood or willow forests located adjacent to slow or standing water bodies. Habitat [hat <br />meets these criteria is not present; therefore, no cuckoos are expected to be present within the permit <br />revision azea. <br />Black-footed ferzets are dependent on prairie dog villages For survival. The prairie dogs and their <br />burrows provide food and shelter for the ferzets. Curzently, the presence of prairie dogs has not been <br />identified within the mining areas. Based on the lack of habitat, ferrets are not expected to be present in <br />the revision area. <br />. The Canada lynx prefers habitat of early and late seral stage forests. The vegetation within the permit <br />revision area is predominantly mountain shrub, sagebrush, aspen woodland, juniper, riparian, and <br />grasslands. The lynx may periodically travel through the revision area; however, this area is not expected <br />to be an area that is a critical habitat for the species and vast areas of similar habitat exist around the <br />revision area. <br />No critical habitat for threatened or endangered species is present in the permit revision area. No <br />threatened or endangered species are expected to be present within the permit revision azea. Bald eagles <br />and peregrine falcons may utilize the area as foraging habitat during the winter, no extended period of use <br />or critical habitat for these species has been documented within the South Taylor/Lower Wilson permit <br />revision area. <br />• <br />South TaylodLower Wilson-Rule 2, Page gB Revision Date: 1]/30/06 <br />Revision No.: PR-02 <br />