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3 . Wildlife - Permit and adjacent areas <br /> a . Habitat <br /> The permit and adjacent areas are situated in <br /> Coal Basin, a northwest trending anticline which is located <br /> near the southern end of the Piceance Basin . The area is on <br /> the eastern boundary of the Colorado Plateau of the southern <br /> Rocky Mountains . <br /> The Coal Basin mine complex is drained by <br /> Coal Creek and its tributaries (Figure III-I-1) . Coal Creek <br /> drains into the Crystal River at Redstone, Colorado , and <br /> flows northward to the confluence of the Roaring Fork River <br /> near Carbondale, Colorado . The Roaring Fork flows northward <br /> from Carbondale and discharges to the Colorado River at <br /> Glenwood Springs . <br /> Topographically, the area is rugged , with <br /> elevations varying from about 7 , 180 ' where Coal Creek enters <br /> the Crystal to 11 , 852 ' at the summit of Huntsman Ridge, <br /> between Coal Basin' s Dutch Creek No . 1 and L . S . Wood No . 3 <br /> Mine entries . <br /> Vegetation is sparse along the rock outcrops <br /> and steep slopes- but becomes more abundant along the stream <br /> channels . Gently sloping ground is limited almost entirely <br /> to high glaciated bowls in the southern part of the permit <br /> area and a few landslide or slumpage areas , most notably in <br /> the Spring Creek and Porcupine Creek drainage areas . (See <br /> Section H of this Chapter , Vegetation Information) <br /> -3- <br />