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• assumed the bird may be: nesting in the area, but it would be well away from the proposed <br />road, since no active nest was found in the corridor. <br />Drill Site IPG-9 <br />Site and Access Koad Hahitat Survey <br />IPG-9 is located on a very narrow ridge-top north of Dove Gulch at an elevation of <br />approximately K I RO feet. l'he drill site is in the oakbrush community, which also exists <br />on the west and south portions of the location. The area immediately to the east of the <br />drill site drops ofl'an escarpment and is in the Ik~uglas fir community for several hundred <br />feet before turning into a narrow, mature clone of aspen on the fringe of the survey <br />radius. In addition to snowtxrr}•; scrvicclxrry, oakbrush, chokcchcm, antelope <br />bittcrbnash (I'urshia tridentate) and mountain mahogany (Ccrcocarpus spp.1 inhabit this <br />site. The oakbrush community is early seral with a .-G tixit canopy on the western <br />escarpment. i~his area was burned, probably in 197R during an autumn fire. <br />~. rn•'~ <br />• <br />. \n c~istin_ n+aii trail ++I ap}xc+xintatch• .8 mile provides aeccss• ti'om Terror Resen•oir. <br />the mad U;nrl. s~x+thr;+~t :+I~mg the eco-tone txtwecn a mountain shnab, aspen 150-70 <br />the drill site slopes gently to the southcact along dtc top o(the rim. "I~hc Uouglas fir and <br />aspen communities to the cost are late setal. Douglas fir snags arc common along tltc <br />east side of the ridge. <br />