SurfMin: haitat

OSM Library Number: 365 Date to NTIS: 12/21/89

NTIS Accession No: PB90-153123/AS NTIS List Price: 17.00

CFR Citation: 30 CFR 780.16, 816.97

Title of Report:

AN EVALUATION OF WILDLIFE MITIGATION PRACTICES AT WESTERN COAL OPERATIONS

(1985). 87 pp.

Performing Organization Name and Address:

Thorne Ecological Institute, Boulder, CO 80302.

Type of Report: Final Report

Abstract:

Relation between habitat features and wildlife communities on reclaimed

coal-mined surfaces was studied at 4 surface mines (WY/MT) during 1983.

Multiple regression analysis identified relations between 28 predictors and 17

variables for big game/small mammals/lagomorphs/galliformes/breeding birds. Big

game use of reclaimed surfaces was inversely related to distance to native

habitat and directly related to rock piles and surface shrub cover. Ponds, rock

piles, adjacent habitat complexity, total vegetative cover, and forbes were

important to small mammal richness and abundance.

Keywords:

HABITAT

MITIGATION PRACTICES

RECLAMATION

Author(s):

Comer, Robert D.

Stoecker, Robert E.

Thompson, Richard W.