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TERRESTRIAL AENV SIRS 44 – 78 Section 13.1 Request 78b Provide a plan and schedule of implementation to augment the data collected to support the HSI models presented. Response 78b The HSI models for black bear, beaver and yellow rail have been conceptually validated and are therefore useful assessment tools (see response to AENV SIR 78a). If appropriate data were available, validation with empirical data would be pursued. Unfortunately, data appropriate for the black bear, beaver and yellow rail HSI models are not available, and would be extremely difficult to obtain. Shell does not propose to collect additional empirical data to validate the HSI models. Black bears hibernate during winter, and therefore data on black bear distribution cannot be collected along with data for most other mammalian KIRs during winter track surveys. Black bear presence within the local study areas (LSAs) has been confirmed with bait station cameras (Golder 2007). However, baiting introduces bias that precludes the inference of habitat associations from bait camera data. Generally, unbiased location data for black bears can be collected using telemetry collars (Brody and Pelton 1989; Kasworm and Manley 1990; Lyons et al. 2003; Czetwertynski 2008). Shell has attempted to obtain black bear telemetry data that was utilized in a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Alberta, but has been unsuccessful (Boyce 2009, pers. comm.). Fitting black bears with telemetry collars for HSI model validation is beyond the scope of the EIA, as defined in the Terms of Reference (TOR) (AENV 2007). A fall beaver-muskrat aerial survey was performed in conjunction with waterfowl surveys in 2005 in the Jackpine Mine Expansion LSA and in 2005 and 2006 in the Pierre River Mine LSA (Golder 2007). However, these surveys are not conducted by randomly sampling the LSAs, but by systematically focusing survey effort on watercourses. Therefore, existing beaver-muskrat survey data is biased and is unsuitable for HSI model validation. As the beaver HSI model predicts that areas in an immediately adjacent to water are high quality habitats for beaver, model predictions do conform to the available data. Conducting a systematic aerial survey of the LSAs for beaver activity would be beyond the scope of the EIA, as defined by the TOR (AENV 2007). Yellow rails are distributed too sparsely in the Oil Sands Region for independent data suitable for model validation to be available. Yellow rail breeding habitat generally consists of fresh or brackish shallow wet meadows and sedge marshes with little or no woody vegetation (Goldade et al. 2002). In the Oil Sands region, this equates to graminoid fen (FONG), marsh (MONG) and shrubby fen (i.e., FONS) wetlands types (Halsey et al. 2003), as designated in the yellow rail HSI model. Between 2003 and 2009, 16 yellow rails were recorded in five different project areas in the Oil Sands Region. Twelve of the 16 detections occurred in graminoid fen (FONG) or shrubby fen (FONS) habitat. Therefore, the yellow rail HSI model output does conform with the available data for the species. April 2010 Shell Canada Limited 13-77 CR029
TERRESTRIAL AENV SIRS 44 – 78 References Section 13.1 AENV (Alberta Environment). 2007. Final terms of reference Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the Shell Canada Limited Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine. 32 pp. Brody, A.J, M.R. Pelton. 1989. Effects of roads on black bear movements in western North Carolina. Wildlife Society Bulletin 17: 5-10. Czetwertynski, S.M. 2008. Effects of hunting on the demographics, movement, and habitat selection of American black bears (Ursus americanus). PhD Thesis. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. 153 pp. Goldade, C.M., J.A. Dechant, D.H. Johnson, A.L. Zimmerman, B.E. Jamison, J.O. Church and B.R. Euliss. 2002. Effects of Management Practices on Wetland Birds: Yellow Rail. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Centre, Jamestown. 21 pp. Golder Associates Ltd. (Golder). 2007. Wildlife and wildlife habitat environmental setting for the Jackpine Mine Expansion and Pierre River Mine Project. Prepared for Shell Canada Ltd. 185 pp. Halsey, L.A., D.H. Vitt, D. Beilman, S. Crowe, S. Melhelcic and R. Wells. Alberta Wetlands Inventory Standards, Version 2.0. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Resource Data Branch, Edmonton. 54 pp. Kasworm, W.F. and T.L. Manley. 1990. Road and trail influences on grizzly bears and black bears in northwest Montana. International Conference on Bear Research and Management 8: 79-84. Lyons, A.L., W.L. Gaines and C. Servheen. 2003. Black bear resource selection in the northeast Cascades, Washington. Biological Conservation 113: 55- 62. Personal Communication. 2009. Boyce, M. Email communication to Brock Simons (Golder). November 9, 2009. 13-78 Shell Canada Limited April 2010 CR029
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