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sS C• .• <br />This letter was supplied by CDOW in 2008. <br />STATE OF COLOPAD 0 <br />891 ravar, Jr,. k;avr? " <br />DEPARTMENT OF tiATURAL MSOURCES <br />DIVISION OF WILDLIFE <br />Ni=U&tatWrtnrramrUW -cn <br />Thcnwi E Renaglim wgelw <br />am 8r"dway <br />Denver. ackmade 60216 <br />sett{3tFsI287-t1S2 <br />we.?taa:c.rss <br />lunn Ill, 2005 <br />Peter! SjegRulnd <br />Vke President <br />United Comp riles; <br />2273 Itiver Road <br />PO Eox 3609 <br />Grand Junctiori: CO 81502 <br />19701243.4900 <br />RE: The United Cornpanlee Scott Gravel Pit Revision Plan <br />Mr. Peter Siegmund, <br />O <br />b <br />0 <br />Fur wt <br />You and Greg Lcwicci met with oistriu Wildlife Manager, Will Spence, a couple months ago regarding th a Scott <br />Pit and anew development plan. You asked the CROW to look at.the new plans to determine whether the pit <br />would adversely affect the nearby eagle nest. Greg Lewlcki also provided Spence vAth further slipulallam to the. <br />development via e•mai that Yoa will be adding to your proposal when you re submit the plan. It is our <br />understanding that you would His CDOW's recommendation of the prngect before golrg through with cmating a <br />new submittal to the City of Rifle. <br />The now minbM plan would be better than the first plans In that there will be a lot otgood habitat preserved <br />that was originally glannedto be mined. The oxbow Is now removed from the minim: plan which is an <br />Important habitat area forthe eaC,les as well as various otherwaterfawl, raptors, songbirds, and mammals. The <br />e-mall additions to the plan suhmftted by towlcki call f6r undulating shore lines on the resulting lake h use of fall <br />material if available in treating shallow shelves around the edges; Icavigg m me Arur?rres such as the access <br />road into the pit that will also provide shallow water, and creating a berm with the UIP soU that WIN act as a <br />visual and sound barrier between the pit and the eagle nest. The plan calls for mlolg3 within the X role buffer <br />only when the eagles areaway for the season. However, adWity Including mlafng, crushing, and an asphalt <br />plant will persist All year within the Ys mile buffer, Spence sWested anoving the espluit plant, crusher, and <br />other faciFfties to the farwest side of the property where it would be out of the X mile buffer. The areas closer <br />to the nest could be mined while the eagles are absent and operations could rrwe back to the western side <br />while the eagles are present. However, It is apparently Impossible to do so because of flood plain Issues. It <br />seems the only place to put the plant Is, on the east side of the property nearer the nest. <br />The buffers are recommendations given by the US. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Colorado ffivlsfon of <br />Wildlife to protect eagle nests statewlde. Activity is to be lrxti#ed to the "off" seoson, when the eagles are gone, <br />wMn the Y. mile buffer. Them is to be no actiYtty within the Y4 mile buffer. Both thi! COOW and the VSFW5 <br />recognize that this particular pair of ewes wenrs to be more tolerant to distuttiance than most eagles are. This <br />pair chose the nest site dopito the dWnrbonce of 174 county roads, gravel mining, a residence, and businesses„ <br />all within the Y, mite buffer.' However, all wIldlifra species have a threshold of disturbance. They can adapt to or <br />put up with disturbance up to acertain level. When that threshold is. reached they m49 leave the area. Where <br />UEPART ENT OF NATURdI NESCURMS. Ham 0. Shoana % Ex= ivtt D&ador <br />VYMWE Ci7NUSSION. Robert Bray. t:h**.8md Goats. Vice DO a Tin Ci ak pert Wy <br />ri2ntbam.Dennh Buedga •JcfiwCnpwW*t> aFwk9Ray1JlcRrtiay•liiAVd:Ray•ftdmdEfteW <br />EX Qfkb &&ffl6 .l-rn Shun m oui.fom S'b,iP <br />Scott Pit March 10 H-4