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Although not all species have been <br /> sighted in Coal Basin, the U . S . F . S . Thompson Creek Land <br /> Use Plan has identified "Ecological Land Units" (ELU) which <br /> might provide habitat for the following birds : <br /> ELL' {f1 ELU #2 ELU #3 ELU #4 ELU #8 ELU #9 <br /> Grey Jay Tree Red-tail- Tree Red-tail- Red-tailed <br /> White- Swallow ed hawk Swallow ed Hawk Hawk <br /> crowned William- Golden William- Golden Golden eagle <br /> sparrows son ' s Eagle son ' s Eagle Raven <br /> Black- sapsuck- Mountain sapsuck- Raven Water pipit <br /> capped ers Bluebird ers Black- White- <br /> chick- Robins Robin Robins billed crowned <br /> adees Gray- Kestrel Gray- Magpie sparrow <br /> Pine headed headed Kestrel Rosy finch <br /> grosbeak juncos juncos Rock wren <br /> Blue Grouse Blue Horned Lark <br /> Grouse 'Mountain <br /> Bluebird <br /> C . Effects of mining operations <br /> A substantial wildlife population inhabits <br /> Coal Basin and has apparently adapted well to any disturbance <br /> which may have been caused by surface activity over the past <br /> 25 years . <br /> Deer feed, during the summer , within a few <br /> hundred feet of the mine facilities . Bear have, on occasion, <br /> sought food at the ;nine facilities . <br /> Transportation of the coal entails an average <br /> of 140 trips per week from the mine facilities to the coal <br /> loadout facility, some 23 miles away, via truck. Road kills <br /> by the trucks since 1956 include one deer , two cows and two <br /> horses . No road kills have been reported in the permit <br /> area . <br /> -14- <br />