2012-06-20_PERMIT FILE - C2010089A ‎(7)‎

• Permit No: C2010089A
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 6/20/2012
• Doc Name: Vegetation Survey
• Section_Exhibit Name: Section 2.04.10
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

required to describe the shrub density on this site at the 90 percent confidence interval was
1156.1 transects.
RARE AND ENDANGERED PLANTS
Examination of the Colorado Rare Plant Field Guide, published by the Colorado Rare Plant
Technical Committee in 1999 and posted at
http: / /www.cnhp. colostate. edu /download/projects /raeplants, reveals that there are 16 species of
potential Rare or Endangered Plants known to exist in Montrose County or the adjacent portions
of Mesa or San Miguel counties. These include: Adiantum capillus- veneris (Southern maiden-
hair fern; Aletes eastwoodiae (Eastwood desert- parsley); Astragalus linifolius (Grand Junction
milkvetch); Astragalus naturitensis (Naturita milkvetch); Astragalus sesquiflorus (Sandstone
milkvetch); Astragalus wetherillii (Wetherill milkvetch); Epipactis gigantea (Giant helleborine);
Erigeron kachinensis (Kachina daisy); Eriogonum pelinophilum (Clay - loving wild buckwheat);
Gilia penstemonoides (Black Canyon gilia); Lomatium concinnum (Colorado desert- parsley);
Lupinus crassus (Payson lupine); Mimulus eastwoodiae (Eastwood monkey- flower); Penstemon
breviculus (Little penstemon); Penstemon retrorsus (Adode beardtongue) and Sclerocactus
glaucus (Colorado Hookless Cactus).
Examination of the Colorado Rare Plant Field Guide - 2002 Update published by the Colorado
Natural Heritage Program and posted at the same website, reveals that an additional three species
of potential Rare or Endangered Plants are known to exist in Montrose County or the adjacent
portions of Mesa or San Miguel counties. These include: Cirsium perplexans (Adobe thistle);
Lesquerella vicinia (Good- neighbor bladderpod) and Pediomelum aromaticum (Aromatic Indian
breadroot).
According to these two documents, one species (Clay- loving wild buckwheat) has a Federal
status of being an endangered taxa (E), meaning that has been formally listed under the
Endangered Species Act. A second species (Colorado Hookless Cactus) has a Federal status of
being a Threatened taxa (T), one that has been formally listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Four species are listed as have a Federal status of C2, (Kachina daisy, Colorado desert- parsley,
Payson lupine and Adobe beardtongue) meaning that they were formerly listed under a Notice of
Review to be classified as being either Endangered or Threatened species under the protection of
the Endangered Species Act, but "for which current information indicates that proposing to list
as endangered or threatened is possible, but appropriate or substantial biological information is
not on file to support an immediate rulemaking."
Four species are listed to have a Federal status of 3C, (Grand Junction milkvetch, Naturita
milkvetch, Wetherill milkvetch and Black Canyon gilia) meaning that they were formerly listed
under a Notice of Review to be either classified as being either Endangered or Threatened
species under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, but "that have proven to be more
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