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Gold Canyon Resources Inc: Final Environmental Study Report Review March 30, 2013 Table 3. Ontario Species At Risk Vascular Plants identified by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (2004). Endangered Threatened Special Concern Extirpated American Ginseng Bird’s-foot Violet Bluehearts Blunt-lobed Woodsia Butternut Cucumber Tree Drooping Trillium Eastern Prairie Fringedorchid Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus Engelmann’s Quillwort False Hop Sedge Few-flowered Club-rush (Bashful Bulrush) Forked Three-awned Grass Gattinger’s Agalinis Heart-leaved Plantain Hoary Mountain-mint Horsetail Spike-rush Juniper Sedge Large Whorled Pogonia Nodding Pogonia Pink Milkwort Pitcher’s Thistle Purple Twayblade Red Mulberry Scarlet Ammannia Showy Goldenrod Skinner’s Agalinis Slender Bush-clover Small-flowered Lipocarpha Small White Lady’s-slipper Small Whorled Pogonia Spotted Wintergreen Toothcup Virginia Goat’s-rue Western Silvery Aster White Prairie Gentian Wood-poppy American Chestnut American Water-willow Branched Bartonia Colicroot Common Hoptree Crooked-stem Aster Deerberry Dense Blazing Star Dwarf Hackberry Goldenseal Hill’s Pondweed Kentucky Coffee-tree Lakeside Daisy Round-leaved Greenbrier White Wood Aster Wild Hyacinth Willowleaf Aster American Columbo American Hart’s-tongue Fern Blue Ash Broad Beech Fern Climbing Prairie Rose False Rue-anemone Green Dragon Riddell’s Goldenrod Shumard Oak Swamp Rose-mallow Tuberous Indianplantain Illinois Tick-trefoil Spring Blue-eyed Mary http://www.ontarionature.org/discover/resources/PDFs/id_guides/SAR_brochure.pdf 5.3.4.1 Vegetative Survey Methodology Deficiencies The Terrestrial and Wetland Ecosites of Northwesern Ontario have classified Trout Lake Forest ecosites, based on soil and vegetative characteristics: classification conducted through photo-interpretation and limited field sub-sampling. The vegetative fieldwork study consisted of selecting 23 land plots in order to verify outdated FRI data. The vegetative and soil composition of each ecosite was sampled and compared to existing FRI data; identified as verified or unclassified. Of the 23 plots 29
Gold Canyon Resources Inc: Final Environmental Study Report Review March 30, 2013 sampled, 53% of them were unclassified and did not match up with existing FRI data, which was attributed to “lack of accurate data for the current FRI (Terrestrial Baseline Report, page 3-3).” Overall, there are a variety of areas where the study was deficient; All 23 selected ecosites were within a small region of the larger study area, and were not representative of the overall study area or the eastern corridor; The study failed to determine what vegetative species were present in the area through field work; No reference made to the forest fire and cumulative impacts to vegetation; No discussion regarding harvesting 645 km2 of timber and its impacts on vegetative biodiversity; No discussion on how the eastern corridor would impact endangered, threatened, special concern or extirpated vegetative species; No environmental protection and mitigation measures proposed for vegetative species at risk; No discussion on potentially important wildlife plant food sources that may be compromised; No statistics provided to determine accuracy of reporting. As with the other terrestrial baseline studies, conclusions were drawn about the low impact of the project on terrestrial parameters, based on flawed methodology and lack of data: “None of these stands have been found to occur within the RSA, therefore the potential environmental effects are considered to be negligible and no mitigation is required (Draft ESR, page 3-28).” Based on the narrow analysis used to derive these unsubstantiated conclusions, it is fair to say that this study was unscientific, poorly conducted and results are inconclusive. Recommendation: GCU needs to conduct a thorough fieldwork vegetation study in conjunction with First Nation communities that documents all ecosites, plant species and communities relevant to the eastern corridor. Recommendation: During the next vegetation study, GCU will document the plant species that are listed in the Ontario Species At Risk - Vascular Plants list, and those that are used within First Nation traditional purposes. Recommendation: The road closure and rehabilitation plan developed for the eastern corridor needs to have all plant communities well documented, and outline how revegetation will occur in order to return those sites back to their original states. 30
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APPENDIX 2 LETTERS FROM HORIZON ARC
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APPENDIX 5 FIELD REPORT FROM DST (D
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The 25-year flood (Q 25 ), determin
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