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Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID Crooks Creek #1 USGS Quad Crooks Peak 

Bank Side / Direction Left / West Legal Description NE1/4 Sec 20, SE1/4 Sec17 T27N, R92W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 265468 4687245 Straight down slope from buck-rail fence 

Start/End Point 265680 4688202 Upstream end of lower willow patch 

Dominant Hordeum brachyantherum, Carex nebrascensis, Agrostis stolonifera, Poa pratensis, 

Vegetation Cirsium canescens 

Notes Transect walking path stays in sage fringe above channel. Transect crosses buck-rail 

fence. Some broad areas in bottom (100 meters wide). Transect can be approached 

from two track road several hundred meters below lower end of transect 

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Figure 2.2G. Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing Transects (Page 2 of 8) 

Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID Crooks Creek #2 USGS QUAD Crooks Peak, Wyoming 

Bank Side / Direction Right / North Legal Description NE1/4 Sec17, NW1/4 Sec16, T26N, R92W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 266523 4688391 Straight down slope yellow steel post in sage 

Start/End Point 265659 468870 Barbed wire fence line crossing creek 

Dominant Carex nebrascensis, Poa pratensis, Salix sp. 

Vegetation 

Notes Transect walking path stays in sage fringe above channel. Transect can be 

approached from lesser two track road branching off main two track 

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Figure 2.2G. Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing Transects (Page 3 of 8) 

Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID A&M Reservoir #1 USGS QUAD Hadsell Spring 

Bank Side/ Direction Left/South Legal Description SW1/4 Sec10, T26N, R91W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 277396 4679362 First dam above reservior 

Start/End Point 278446 4679331 Rock pile at beginning of creek 

Dominant Juncus balticus, Carex nebrascensis, Poa pratensis, Epilobium sp. 

Vegetation 

Notes Riparian area is narrow and grouse occupying both sides of channel would 

likely be flushed 

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Figure 2.2G. Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing Transects (Page 4 of 8) 

Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID A&M Reservoir #2 USGS Quad Hadsell Spring 

Bank Side / Direction Right / South Legal Description SE1/4 Sec10, SW1/4 Sec11, T26N, R91W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 278760 4679529 Fence line 

Start/End Point 279772 4679181 Small lone willow on left bank 

Dominant Carex nebrascensis, Poa pratensis, Agrostis stolonifera, Lupinus sp. 

Vegetation 

Notes Riparian area is narrow and grouse occupying both sides of channel would 

likely be flushed 

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Figure 2.2G. Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing Transects (Page 5 of 8) 

Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID Lost Creek #1 USGS Quad Osborne Draw 

Bank Side / Direction Right / West Legal Description NE1/4 Sec 1, T27N, R95W and SE1/4 

Sec36, T27N, R95W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 739057 4673700 Stop on road at / and walk straight to creek 

Start/End Point 738531 4672887 Tall white/red mud cliff on left bank 

Dominant Poa pratensis, Carex nebrascensis, Agrostis stolonifera, Thermopsis divaricarpa 

Vegetation 

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Figure 2.2G. Sage-Grouse Brood Rearing Transects (Page 6 of 8) 

Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID Lost Creek #2 USGS Quad Osborne Draw 

Bank Side / Direction Right / West Legal Description SE1/4Sec 25, T26N, R95W and SW1/4 

Sec30, T26N, R94W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 738492 4675582 Where two track road intersects creek 

Start/End Point 739267 4674969 Mail BLM road at culvert 

Dominant Carex nebrascensis, Agrostis stoloniofera, Eleocharis palustris, Junucus 

Vegetation balticus, unknown composite 

Notes Transect walking path stays in sage fringe above channel. 

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Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID Stewart Creek #1 USGS Quad Bull Springs and Baroil 

Bank Side / Direction Right / West Legal Description NW1/4 Sec29, T25N, R90W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 284162 4666307 Just below dam 

Start/End Point 284281 4665194 Very close to two track road 

Dominant Carex nebrascensis, Agrostis stolonifera 

Vegetation 

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Lost Creek Sage Grouse Brood Survey 2011

Transect ID Stewart Creek #2 USGS Quad Bull Springs and Baroil 

Bank Side / Direction Right / west Legal Description NW1/4 Sec20, T25N, R92W 

NAD 83 East North Comments 

Start/End Point 284165 4666592 Single tee-post just above tailwater of 

reservoir and just below a four tee-post 

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Start/End Point 284129 4667583 At the end of the moist riparian area where 

rabbit brush narrows into channel 

Dominant Carex nebrascensis, Agrostis stolonifera 

Vegetation 

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riparian bottom (100 meters wide). 

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