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Vegetation and Wildlife Baseline Survey Report <br />Linc Energy Little Snake River Project <br />Table of Contents <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 <br />2.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 1 <br />3.0 STUDY AREA 1 <br />4.0 VEGETATION 1 <br />4.1 ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 1 <br />4.1.1 Inter - Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland 2 <br />4 1.2 Inter - Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Steppe 3 <br />4.2 NOXIOUS AND INVASIVE WEEDS 5 <br />4.3 THREATENED AND ENDANGERED PLANT SPECIES 6 <br />4.3.1 Ute Ladies '- tresses ... ....6 <br />5.0 WILDLIFE 7 <br />5.1 REGULATORY JURISDICTION 7 <br />5.2 SAGEBRUSH AND SAGE SPECIES CONSERVATION 7 <br />5.3 THREATENED & ENDANGERED WILDLIFE SPECIES 10 <br />5.3.1 Fish 10 <br />Colorado Pikeminnow 11 <br />Bonytail 11 <br />Humpback Chub 11 <br />Razorback Sucker 11 <br />5.3.2 Birds ...12 <br />Mexican spotted owls 12 <br />Yellow- billed cuckoos 12 <br />5.3.3 Mammals .14 <br />Black- footed ferrets 14 <br />Canada lynx 14 <br />North American wolverine 14 <br />5.4 SPECIAL RECREATION MANAGEMENT AREAS 14 <br />5.5 BIG GAME 14 <br />5.5.1 CDOWSeasonal Activity Definitions 14 <br />5.6 OTHER MAMMALS 15 <br />5.7 RAPTORS 16 <br />5.7.1 Bald eagle 16 <br />5.7 2 Peregrine falcon 16 <br />5 7 3 Mountain plover 17 <br />5.8 UPLAND GAME BIRDS 17 <br />5.8.1 Columbian sharp- tailed grouse 17 <br />5.9 OTHER BIRDS 17 <br />5.10 AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES, AND AQUATIC SPECIES 17 <br />5.101 Fish 17 <br />5.10.2 Amphibians 18 <br />5.10.3 Reptiles 18 <br />6.0 SITE - SPECIFIC HABITAT ANALYSIS 19 <br />SITE NO. 1 19 <br />SITE NO.2 20 <br />SITE NO.3 21 <br />SITE NO.4 22 <br />SITE NO. 23 <br />SITE NO.6 24 <br />SITE NO.7 25 <br />SITE NO.8 26 <br />Habitat Management, Inc. <br />Page i <br />December 2011 <br />