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Description. In addition, CC &V has prepared and implemented a Wildlife Protection Plan that is <br />part of standard operating procedures for the Cresson Project. This plan is included in Appendix <br />16, Volume VII. <br />4.8 Soils <br />4.7.1 State and Federal Threatened, Endangered, and Candidate Species <br />Arcadis queried the website for the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a current list of <br />federally listed Threatened, Endangered, and Candidate Species that have potential to <br />occur in the District and Teller County. CDOW maintains a State list of threatened and <br />endangered wildlife species and also lists some wildlife species with declining <br />populations as "species of special concern." The website for CDOW was queried to <br />determine State - listed threatened, endangered, and species of concern that have potential <br />to occur in the survey area. In addition, the Colorado Natural Heritage Program <br />( "CNHP ") maintains a list of rare plant species for the state, which includes rare plant <br />species as listed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (CNHP <br />2011). The potential for any special status species to occur in the survey area was based <br />on habitat suitability in the survey area. <br />The combined lists of species were reviewed to determine those species with the potential <br />to be present within the MLE2 affected areas and vicinity due to suitable habitat and /or <br />historic occurrences. The species with the potential to occur within the MLE2 and <br />adjacent areas include Botta's pocket gopher (a State species of concern), Gunnison's <br />prairie dog (a Federal candidate species), and Townsend's big -eared bat (a State species <br />of concern). None of these special status species are afforded specific protections under <br />State or Federal laws and none were observed in the MLE2 areas. Appendix 3 in Volume <br />III of this document provides complete details. <br />Previous soil surveys were conducted within the permit area by Nerco Minerals Company in <br />1984; Newport Minerals in 1985; USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service ( "NRCS ") in <br />1993 and 1995; JBR Environmental Consultants in 1996; and Greystone Environmental <br />Consultants in 1999. Information from these soil studies was consolidated and updated by <br />Arcadis in 2007 using new NRCS soil units and field survey data collected in June 2007. The <br />2011 survey used a revised soils map based primarily on 2008 NRCS data and was then <br />supplemented by the results of field investigations by Arcadis in 2011 that focused primarily on <br />MLE2 areas. <br />Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company <br />Cresson Project Mine Life Extension 2 <br />4 -21 <br />