Appendix F Detailed Cover Type Tables - USDA Rural Development

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Bemidji – Grand Rapids Biological Assessment and Evaluation expected since: project activities will not alter hydrological conditions, winter construction activities will limit ground disturbance, and none of the alternatives are expected to substantially increase wetland fill. Route 1 Alternative (Great Lakes Pipeline) This alternative crosses numerous bogs and poor fens, including large bog areas near Sucker Creek, through Hole in the Bog SNA, south of Bena and the Nushka Lake area. The following species have been documented within this route: • Nine populations with 110 Botrychium simplex individuals were identified within this route during EP surveys, but none in bog or fen locations. • One population of Hierchloe odorata was identified during Enbridge surveys along this route, but not in a Bog or Fen location. • Five populations of more than 118 Sparganium glomeratum individuals were located in this route and alternatives in 2008 during EP surveys; two populations are noted by the DNR and CNF along Route 1, but neither population is in an area identified as fen or bog. • More than 1,200 individual Torreyochloa pallida were identified in three different emergent wetland locations during EP surveys (One along Route 1, and two along Segment B). Individual structure locations will be sited to avoid known TES locations. Vehicle traffic that may affect individual plants would be directed around known TES by installation of protective fencing and signage prior to construction activities. Additional TES individuals/populations may exist that were not identified during previous surveys. Once the final route and centerline are chosen, suitable habitat will be evaluated in advance of construction activities and suitable habitat will be surveyed for species of this guild within the proposed work areas. Protective fencing will be installed if additional populations are found and if those populations are within the impact area. All construction within bog and fen locations will occur during winter under frozen conditions or during other seasons with the use of construction mats. No impacts are expected to any species of this guild based on the ability to span and avoid all known populations. Route 2 Alternative (US 2) This alternative crosses numerous bogs and poor fens, including large bog areas east and west of Bena, north of Six Mile Lake, and near Schley. The following species have been documented within this route. • Two populations of Botrychium simplex were identified within this route during 2008 surveys in an upland area near a bog. Four additional populations were identified during 2009 surveys; these populations were located between BNSF and Enbridge ROWs. CNF and DNR have eight records of this species within Route 2. • Three populations of Drosera intermedia with more than 300 individuals are scattered throughout a large shrub peatland west of Bena within Route 2. • Three populations of Hierochloe odorata were identified during 2008 and 2009 in Route 2, but none in bog and fen habitats. • Ten total populations of Sparganium glomeratum were noted within the Route 2 corridor during EP surveys. One population was observed on a floating mat and two of the populations on peatland with other bog species. July 2010 Environmental Consequences Page 5‐69
Bemidji – Grand Rapids Biological Assessment and Evaluation Individual structure locations will be sited to avoid known TES locations. Vehicle traffic that may affect individual plants would be directed around known TES by installation of protective fencing and signage prior to construction activities. Additional TES individuals/populations may exist that were not identified during previous surveys. Once the final route and centerline are chosen, suitable habitat will be evaluated in advance of construction activities and suitable habitat will be surveyed for species of this guild within the proposed work areas. Protective fencing will be installed if additional populations are found and if those populations are within the impact area. All construction within bog and fen locations will occur during winter under frozen condition conditions or during other seasons with the use of construction mats. No impacts are expected to any species of this guild based on the ability to span and avoid all known populations. Route 3 Alternative (Northern Route) This alternative crosses numerous bogs and poor fens, with extensive communities/habitats located 4 to12 miles north of Deer River, numerous small bogs between Highway 29 and Highway 6 and a halfmile wide spruce bog, previously cleared for an existing transmission line, located between the Bowstring River and Whitefish Lake. The following species have been documented within this route. • One 1994 DNR element occurrence of Arethusa bulbosa is noted within the LLR on Route 3 near Highway 6. This population was not relocated during 2008 surveys. The point data is located within an area of closed canopy tamarack and white cedar. • Six populations of Botrychium simplex were identified during 2009 surveys within Route 3, though none of these populations are located within bog or fen habitat. • A population of Platanthera clavellata is present under the existing cleared power corridor in an area between shrub swamp and black spruce bog. • A population of Platanthera flava var. herbiola was observed within the route on an overgrown two track road in a transitional area between shrub swamp and bog communities. • Two populations of Sparganium glomeratum were observed within the route on an overgrown roadway in a transitional area between shrub swamp and bog communities and in shallow open water at the edge of a lake. Individual structure locations will be sited to avoid known TES locations. Vehicle traffic that may affect individual plants would be directed around known TES by installation of protective fencing and signage prior to construction activities. Additional TES individuals/populations may exist that were not identified during previous surveys. Once the final route and centerline are chosen, suitable habitat will be evaluated in advance of construction activities and suitable habitat will be surveyed for species of this guild within the proposed work areas. Protective fencing will be installed if additional populations are found and if those populations are within the impact area. All construction within bog and fen locations will occur during winter under frozen condition conditions or during other seasons with the use of construction mats. No impacts are expected to any species of this guild based on the ability to span and avoid all known populations. No Build Alternative The No Build Alternative would not alter the existing condition; no adverse or beneficial effects would occur. July 2010 Environmental Consequences Page 5‐70
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