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Show QUESTIONS, CONTINUED 7. Does the Bureau of Reclamation recognize the fact that wildlife is a renewable resource only so long as its habitat remains? Does the Bureau acknowledge the fact that as a renewable^resource, wildlife has an economic benefit acrruina to community, to State, to nation, AND to individual - in perpetuity? In what way will the Bureau address the loss of wildlife habitat in perpetuity? 8. In evaluating economic benefits for wildlife on the Uinta Range, does the Bureau of Reclamation understand that these benefits are exponential? That when deer winter range is lost and it is the limiting factor to the herd survival, more ' than the immediate deer herd is lost? The loss includes the FUTURE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE HERD IN PERPETUITY! Will this type assessment be included in the CES? 9. Will the CES evaluate the impingement on wildlife and habitat diversity- in the continuum of valley, slope, canyon habitat loss - as a synergistic effect of water developments on the total wildlife resource on the Uinta Mountain Range?" 10. Will this same CES evaluate the synergistic effect on wildlife habitat for a giy^n__sj^ecie_s_, say, where a continuum of specific habitat type such as riparian and aauatic, are lost on an entire Range like the Uintas? Riparian habitat provides not only for the animals, birds, and occasional wildlife users, but the potential habitat productivity, such as beaver activity which creates marsh which ultimately provides habitat for moose. In what way and to what degree will the CES address this issue? 11. Habitat requirements and range of Endangered and Threatened wildlife species in the Upper Colorado River Basin is not adequately documented at this time. How will the CES provide the necessary protection and future habitat requirements of these species relative to water developments when this pertinent data is lacking? 12. How will the Bureau evaluate total synergistic loss of '•'' Threatened and Endangered aquatic species in planned water developments? These species are viable Dopulations at what point of survival? 13. Will the Bureau of Reclamation work with all public resource management agencies, particularly those responsible for wild-life or its habitat, in evaluating the resource, its habitat requirement, its diversity and reauirements for this, and the necessity for fulfilling Agency responsibilities for this resource? In the past, the Bureau has arrogantly ridden roughshod over other Agency resource responsibility. 14. On what^basis will the Bureau incorporate into the Computer assembling data for the Programmatic Environmental Impact otatement, the esthetic values of Canyon, Riparian, and Aquatic resources? What is the evaluating criteria? 15. Will the economics of free flowing rivers in the Colorado River Basin, m^perpetuity, be weighed against the limited time and accompanying costs of providing water from these as a supply? |
