No Net Impact: Wildlife Mitigation

Bill Barrett Corporation’s commitment to no net impacts to wildlife in the West Tavaputs area includes:

• Constructing road re-alignments to avoid wildlife areas and/or to reclaim existing roads within high value wildlife area
• Implementing habitat improvement and connectivity by improving sage grouse habitat areas and connecting such areas with improved habitat corridors (deer and elk will also benefit from these same habitat projects)
• Developing wet meadow/summer range improvement to enhance natural springs to provide a water source for sage grouse and other wildlife
• Building water sources in areas of wildlife use where water is limited
• Managing grazing practices on the BBC-owned surface lands and more than 30,000 acres of BLM cattle grazing allotments to enhance wildlife forage habitat
• Committing to two years of non-grazing on these lands to allow wildlife forage to enhance habitat for local wildlife
• Monitoring wildlife to improve wildlife population information and to help guide future decisions affecting mitigation

For a full description of Bill Barrett Corporation’s commitment to no net impacts in the West Tavaputs Full Field Development Plan, Click here and go to the upper right corner of the page to "Draft EIS"