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Bradbury Gravel Pit <br />Exhibit H - Wildlife Information <br />Grand Junction Pipe and Supply, Inc. <br />INTRODUCTION <br />At the request of Grand Junction Pipe and Supply and on their behalf the pit site was inspected <br />on September 17, 2009 by Bill Clark, Biologist and Ed Settle, Grand Junction Pipe. The purpose <br />of the visit was to verify vegetation as it pertains to wildlife, to make incidental direct and <br />indirect wildlife observations at the time of the visit, and to observe landscape setting. These <br />observations along with knowledge of the landscape of the proposed gravel pit and surrounding <br />vicinity are key to describing wildlife resources as required by Colorado Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS) regulation 6.4.8 of the Construction Materials Rule <br />pertaining to the extraction of sand and gravel. <br />The objectives of this survey and report are to document wildlife resources and features in the <br />vicinity of Bradbury Gravel Pit: <br />• Identify areas of importance to resident and migratory game and non-game species: <br />• Identify areas where threatened, endangered, or sensitive wildlife occur; <br />• Locate raptor (bird of prey) nest sites and identify potential raptor habitat and use areas; <br />• Locate Birds of Conservation Concern (BOCC) nest sites or habitat; and, <br />• Identify areas of potential habitat for federally listed threatened and endangered wildlife <br />species. <br />METHOD <br />Information for this exhibit is based on a site visit in September 2009 and review of public <br />domain information from the US Dept. of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service <br />(NRCS) and Dept. of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Colorado Division of Wildlife <br />(CDOW), and other public domain sources. <br />RESULTS <br />The pit is located on a dry terrace above and outside the Kannah Creek flood plain and riparian <br />zone. Ecologically the site is in the desert-salt desert zone of the Colorado Plateau Physiographic <br />Region (NRCS 2009). Representative vegetation on unaffected similar sites includes Gardner's <br />saltbush, mat saltbush, shadscale, winterfat, Indian ricegrass, salina wildrye, and galleta (grass). <br />Cottonwood and willows grow along riparian zones in the floodplain. Rainfall is likely less than <br />899.