Parking facilities could be designed to use as little 

 ground as possible by promoting efficient parking patterns. 



Boundaries could be established around mine and tailing 

 sites (either actual in the form of fences or technically 

 on paper and enforced by the project manager) within which 

 all human activities would be confined and thus reduce the 

 tendancy of development to sprawl and encroach further upon 

 wildlife habitat. 



Expanding Human Population 



The use of all-terrain vehicles could be confined to 

 areas specifically set aside for their use. 



Educational campaigns could be launched to inform the 

 general pijblic, contractors and employees associated with 

 the mine about the requirements of wildlife, thus promoting 

 a personal interest and pride in their resource and avoiding 

 unnecessary damaging activities (importance of snags for 

 cavity nesters, harassment and attrition of wildlife emi- 

 nating from free-ranging domestic animals, harmful construc- 

 tion side effects) . 



Private land could be zoned to acknowledge wildlife 

 needs (wintering areas, traditional parturition sites). 



Wildlife habitat could be optimized in areas not di- 

 rectly affected by mining activities to realize the greatest 

 wildlife return possible from those areas. 



Areas of important wildlife use which occur on private 

 lands could be purchased to permanently ensure wildlife 

 needs at those sites. 



A sincere integrated approach to land use allocations 

 throughout the valley could be taken through cooperation 

 commitments from resource management agencies. 



There are undoiobtedly other temporal, spatial or opera- 

 tional measures which might be implemented but knowledge of 

 these measures may only come to light if there is an oppor- 

 tunity to identify them through a long-term commitment to 

 understanding particularly vulnerable species needs. 



Long-term Management Recommendations 



The purpose in implementing biological monitoring pro- 

 grams is to actually benefit wildlife through an under- 

 standing of their needs which otherwise would not have been 

 discovered. Long-term biological monitoring would not be 



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