Record Details
page 353
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 353 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 353 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 353 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; the most significant losses of habitat the habitat evaluations provided by state and federal biologists distinguished between summer and winter habitat only for deer and pheasants the losses of deer winter habitat are the 3000 acres inundated by starvation reservoir and the 500 acres that would be inundated by hayes reservoir the presently uri ua url evaluated unevaluated 4900 acres of land that would be inundated by jordanelle Jor danelle and lampton reservoirs would be expected to contain additional winter habitat the state division of wildlife resources has divided utah into deer herd areas and subdivided each of these units into acreages of summer and winter habitat 121 within the state there are presently about 17000 square miles of fed federal fedsral 2 al and state owned land that is considered to be winter range for deer an additional 14000 square miles is classified as sumner summer sum ner habitat carrying this type of analysis further fu r ther there are about 2700 square miles of winter range and 3500 square miles of sumner summer sum ner range located within the bonneville unit area the bonneville unit would eliminate about 30 square miles of deer habitat of which about 6 square miles would be winter ranse range rangen ransen compared to the total amount of deer habitat remaining in the state the estimated loss would not be significant while the amount of moose habitat lost 810 acres would be very small the adverse impact of the loss on the states stated statem moose noose moosa population would be more significant field studies indicate that this species is attempting to extend the natural boundaries of its geographic distribution southward from irom fron the north slope of the uinta mountains loss of 810 acres of good habitat particularly in the rock creek currant creek drainages might restrict the expansion process and dalay the natural establishment lish ment of permanent perma nent neat herds in the limited habitat available within the central portion of utah it is difficult to evaluate the broad impacts that the bonneville unit would have on the piea plea pleasant pheasant sant population pheasant distribution 353 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/5286 |
