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J.E. Stover & Associates, Inc <br />• December 6, 2006 <br />Page 2 <br />their habitat requirements, and indicates whether suitable habitat for each species is present within <br />the permit boundary. <br />Table 1. State- and federally-listed threatened, endangered, and candidate'species potentially occurring in <br />the vicinity of the Bowie #2 Mine permit boundary. <br /> Legal Habitat <br />Common Name Scientific Name Status` Habitat Requirement Summary within Permit <br /> Boundary? <br />Bald eagle Haliaeetus <br />leucocephalus FT, ST Major river corridors, reservoirs Yes <br />Yellow-billed Coccyzus FC Low elevation river corridors with fairly No <br />cuckoo amedcanus extensive mature cottonwood galleries <br />Bonytail Gila elegans FE, SE Colorado & Gunnison Rivers No' <br />pikem snow Ptychocheilus lucius FE, SE Colorado & Gunnison Rivers No' <br />Humpback chub Gila cypha FE, SE Colorado & Gunnison Rivers No' <br />Razorback sucker Xyrauchen texanus FE, SE Colorado 8 Gunnison Rivers No' <br />Black-footed ferret Muste/a nigripes FE, SE Large prairie dog colonies No <br /> Spruce/fir/mixed conifer/lodgepole pine <br />Canada lynx Lynx canadensis FT, ST forests (primary), or mixed deciduous/conifer No' <br /> (secondary) <br /> In Delta County, semi-desert shrublands in <br />Kit fox Vu/pes macrons SE Peach Valley and adobe badlands north of No <br /> Ciry of Delta <br />. .. <br />Lakes, ponds, wet meadows, and wetlands in <br />Boreal toad Bufo boreas boreal SE subalpine forests (aspen, spruce-fir, Marginal <br /> lodgepole pine, usually above 8,500 feet) <br />Clay-loving wild Eriogonum Adobe soils (ManCOS shale) of the Colorado <br />buckwheat pe/inophilum FE and Gunnison valleys in semi-desert No <br /> shrublands <br /> Adobe soils (Mancos shale) of the Colorado <br />Uinta Basin Sc/erocactus FT and Gunnison valleys, most commonly No <br />hookless callus g/aucus associated with semi-desert shrublands <br /> (primarily shadscale and mat saltbush) <br />' Although no habitat is present within the mine permit boundary for these species, downstream designaletl critical habitat for the four <br />endangered fishes is affected by the mine's water consumption, and a small portion of the permit area lies within a U.S. Forest <br />Service Lynx Analysis Unit. See text for further discussion. <br />Habitat descriptions and occurrence determinations outlined in Table 1 are based on professional <br />experience, personal communication with experts, and published resources, including Colorado <br />' Federally-listed threatened, endangered, and cantlitlate species shown on this table compiled from the Delta County, Colorado list <br />available at http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/entlspp/CountyLislsICOLORADO.htm (updated November 2005); State endangered, <br />threatenetl, and candidate species compiled from CDOW's threatened and entlangered list at <br />http:/hvildlifestate.co. usNViltllifeSpecies/SpeciesOfConcern/ThreatenedEndangeredList/ListOfihreatenedAndEndangeretlSpecies.htm. <br />• ° Stales explana[inn: FE =Federally listed as endangered; FT =Federally listed as threateneQ FC =Candidate for listing as fetlerally <br />threatened or endangeretl; SE = State-listed as entlangered; ST =State-listetl as threatened <br />© Rare Earth Science, LLC <br />