2010-05-07_PERMIT FILE - C2009087 ‎(18)‎

• Permit No: C2009087
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/7/2010
• Doc Name: Fish and Wildlife Information
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 2.04.11-E1 Fish and Wildlife Information
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Sage Creek Mine
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Figure 1. Winter big game densities within the combined Seneca If and Yoast Mines survey
area from 2000 to 2007 and the Sage Creek Mine survey area in 2009.
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4.1.2 Mule Deer
The CDOW has classified 19.4 square miles of the Sage Creek Mine big game survey area as
mule deer winter range (CDOW 2008), including the northeast portion of the survey area
(approximately 6.2 miles or 33% within the survey area) and a small region that intersects with the
associated transportation corridor study area south of Fish Creek. An interior portion of each of
those regions, including 2.0 miles within the northeast margin (11 %) of the Sage Creek permit
area, has further been classified by the CDOW as mule deer critical and severe winter range. The
entire Sage Creek Mine survey area has also been included in the CDOW's designated summer
range for mule deer.
Relatively few mule deer have been regularly observed within 2.0 miles of the Sage Creek Mine
survey area during past big game surveys (Figure 1). Very few observations have historically
occurred within the survey area, as biologists have recorded only 11 mule deer herds on or within
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