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�I sss <br /> 7/15/76 <br /> Rex Taliaferro <br /> bon Bogart <br /> RE: Headley Sand & Gravel <br /> in company wit: John Pogorelz and ?_ar*y Aulide., I inspected the sand and gravel <br /> mines on the Galen Headley property at Snyder, July 14, 1976. <br /> The mines are located in the Sandhill area north of the Platte River just to <br /> the northeast of Snyder. The mines have been operated for a number of years. <br /> As a result several rather deep excavations have been created. Some of the <br /> very deepest ones have water in them at the water table level. One of the <br /> more shallow excavations which has silted in from flood waters is also holding <br /> water. <br /> From a wildlife standpoint, this oneration has changed the environment from a <br /> • short grass prairie type of sand hill habitat to an aquatic-marshy type of <br /> habitat. The large shallow pond has produced duck nesting habitat as well as <br /> an area of waterfowl harvest in the fall of the year. Mr. Headley has also <br /> planted several species of warm water fish in the deeper pits and I under- <br /> stand they are doing very well. <br /> The area has antelope range within a mile or two, but no antelope have been <br /> observed using the area that is now being mined. This is probably due to the <br /> fact that the farming and dwellings of farm families are in the immediate <br /> vacinity of the mine. <br /> other species of wildlife observed in the area were numerous shore birds and <br /> song birds, one species of 'which is our state bird, the lark b•�.ti::;. <br /> are no known threatened or endangered species in the area. <br /> DB/edy <br /> • <br />