utility Corridor 



Mass transit facilities could be employed and use man- 

 dated, to substantially reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions 

 and poaching pressure. Such systems have been investigated 

 elsewhere and have proved effective. 



Shift changes could be scheduled to avoid early morning 

 and late evening wildlife periods (of course, these periods 

 will change seasonally). 



A maximum speed limit should be imposed on haul roads 

 and warning signs posted at areas of regular wildlife use. 



Company roads should be limited to official business 



use. 



Wildlife movement at known crossing areas could be fa- 

 cilitated by not creating difficult-to-cross barriers. Snow 

 berms could be broken at key crossings, fences should not be 

 installed and the slurry tailing pipeline could be constructed 

 high enough to allow passage beneath of the tallest wildlife 

 or low enovigh to allow crossing over by young. 



Clearing of vegetation should be kept to a minimum along 

 the right-of-way, which would facilitate movement across the 

 corridor. 



Necessary vegetation clearing should not employ the use 

 of herbicides which introduce toxins into the environment 

 and which could have broader consequences for all wildlife 

 forms because their use would be commensurate with the Stanley 

 Creek water course and associated riparian zone. 



Road margins could be seeded with unpalatable native 

 vegetative species which would reduce wildlife use of road- 

 sides for feeding purposes. 



A ban on firearms could be imposed on company property 

 to discourage poaching and legal hunting pressure upon wild- 

 life which would otherwise add to the stress already im- 

 posed by facility structures and the presence of humans. 



Mine Site and Tailing Impoundment 



Garbage disposal facilities could be constructed and 

 operated to discourage use by bears and other wildlife. 



The tailing impoundment could be constructed to dis- 

 courage its use by all birds (particularly waterfowl and 

 shorebirds) by not planting shrubs or trees in the immediate 

 area of the impoundment banks . 



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