Record Details
page 352
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 352 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 352 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 352 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; e wildlife 1 general significant local impacts would occur on wildlife populations inhabiting the areas in and adjacent to unit development sites it Is difficult to realistically relate the importance of the local impacts on game populations to the status of the populations at the broader state or regional level complicating the problem of evaluating the broad significance of local impacts are the facts that the bonneville unit effect on wildlife is but on of many that are presently exerting pressure upon the wildlife resource and that comprehensive quantitative and qialitative qjalitative qualitative assessments of total available wildlife habitat 120 1 ad 9d 122 199 have not yet been completed 5 however in order to picture the relationship of the unit to the statewide situation some habitat comparisons pari sons are made in this evaluation of environmental impacts the adverse wildlife impacts attributable to the bonneville unit would be primarily associated with loss of habitat resulting from inundation drainage of marshlands reduced streamflows stream flows and interference with established migration patterns table C 21 presents a str summary mnary mmary of the estimated impacts of the unit upon wildlife habitat except for elk ells eik elis the affected wildlife populations would experience an overall loss of habitat it is very important to distinguish between summer and winter habitat because it if is the quantity and quality of winter habitat that usually determines the capacity of an area to produce and sustain wildlife populations losses of sur summer gmuer rmuer habitat are not as critical because animal populations are usually better able to adapt to such losses without suffering a reduction in productivity this habitat differentiation does not apply to waterfowl whose use of marshlands is mainly seasonal 2 Main maln mammals mals nais nals and birds table C 21 indicates that sage grouse deer moose pheasants and waterfowl would experience 352 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/5596 |
