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DEC. 3 '9B 10:16AM DMG,GJCT 1 303 2410336 P.10 Further , Mid-Continent has told Pitkin county, as noted -- in the Pitkin County Special Review PPrmlt , that it is in agreement with the goals of the "Thompson CrPPk Lang' Use Plan" of the U . S .F. S . , 1976 , which selects preferred alterna- tives for the postmining land new of the Coal Basin . Mid-Continent ' s land use plans have been reviewed by the U. S . Forest Service . Cnmmcnrs of the Forest Service are : "I and Acting Forest Supervisor George Morris see no conflict with your proposed postmining land „Re and Forest Service land management direction for the area . Yo"r postmining uze permit is so far down the road , however, that it is difficult to say what conditions would be at that time . The ski area proposal would have to follow the Colorado Review Process which involved several government entities and would require extensive" involvement by the Forest . This letter is not an approval of a specific project, therefore, but does Asurp }got, that your basic postmining use does nor nonflirr with our land management direction . " Source: Jack G . Troyer District Ranger White River National Forest , Sopris Ranger District "Termination of mining operations can have two general positive impacts on wildlife . Abandoned pnrrals, roads . and staging arPas can be put into primary production , and provide the physical habitat useful to many wild- life species . This would be a very small , bnc signifi- cant, innrpasp in avai.lablc habitat . The other , more important, impart can be a very significant redur.rinn in human-related activity in Coal Basin . Such improved Pnlicude conditions would permit increases of sensi.rivr wildlife species ' populations . " Source: Marc Bosch District Wililife Biologist , White River National Forest. Sopris Ranger District