5.6 Transportation and Service Corridors
5.5.9 SGCN Priority Species Te Taxa Team evaluation considered the level of threat energy production and mining activities represents to SGCN priority species. Table 5.4 provides a list of species for which this threat category is consider very high or high.
SGCN at very high or high threat from energy production and mining
T ABLE 5.4
Threat Level Very High High
Scientifc Name
Common Name
AMPHIBIAN Rana [Lithobates] capito
Carolina Gopher Frog Neuse River Waterdog Wehrle’s Salamander
X X X
Necturus lewisi Plethodon wehrlei
FRESHWATER FISH Carpiodes sp. cf. cyprinus
a carpsucker
X
Cottus carolinae
Banded Sculpin
X X X X X
Erimonax monachus Etheostoma inscriptum Percina nigrofasciata
Spotfn Chub
Turquoise Darter Blackbanded Darter Roanoke Logperch
Percina rex
SNAIL (TERRESTRIAL) Infectarius verus
a snail
X
5.6 Transportation and Service Corridors Treats associated with this category relate to roads, railroads, utility and service lines, shipping lanes, and fight paths, and to the vehicles that use them, including associated wildlife mortality. (Salafsky et al . 2008) Roads are signifcant features of most landscapes, covering about 1% of the United States and ecologically infuencing an estimated 15%–20% of the US land area (Jochimsen et al. 2004) . Land-based transportation systems include highways and secondary road net- works, logging and fre access roads, causeways and bridges, and railroads and rail yards. Utility and service corridors and rights-of-way include electrical and telephone lines, oil and gas pipelines, and stormwater and sewer system lines. Coastal shipping lanes, inter- coastal waterways (IWW), and canals for boat and ship transportation and utility lines are aquatic-oriented transportation and service corridors. Airport runways and fight paths between airports are another type of transportation corridor (Salafsky et al. 2008) .
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