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A <br /> • • <br /> TAKE..... <br /> fHT�� United States Department of the Interior �g gA�„ <br /> Y BI <br /> V " Fish and Wildlife Service MOIMMEMMEMEMMO <br /> Green Bay Field Office <br /> " � 1825 South Webster Avenue, Bldg. 2 �= <br /> WA Green Bay, Wisconsin 54301 <br /> In Repty Refer to: <br /> September 19, 1990 <br /> Colonel Roger L. Baldwin <br /> District Engineer <br /> U.S. Army Engineer District <br /> St. Paul S�r 2� 3990 <br /> 1421 U.S. Post Office & Custom House <br /> St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-9808 <br /> re: CENCS-CO-R (90-1043-31/ ZOtea 001 <br /> VF 90-612-31) <br /> Cherokee Park, Inc. <br /> Yahara River <br /> Dane County, Wisconsin <br /> Dear Colonel Baldwin: <br /> The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has reviewed the referenced <br /> after-the-fact public notice concerning a request to retain and place <br /> additional fill over approximately 1.148 acres of wetland adjacent to <br /> the Yahara River. The purpose of the project is to convert wetland to <br /> upland for residential development. <br /> These comments have been prepared under the authority of the Fish and <br /> Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 661 et <br /> seq.) and are consistent with the intent of the National Environmental <br /> Policy Act of 1969, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mitigation <br /> Policy, and Presidential Executive Orders 11988 and 11990. <br /> The Service recommends that the requested permit not be issued. <br /> The placement of fill in a wetland for residential development is a non- <br /> water dependent activity. It appears that suitable alternative upland <br /> sites for residential development are available on the applicants <br /> property and elsewhere in the area. Much of the wetland acreage of <br /> south central Wisconsin, including Dane County, has been drained and/or <br /> filled over the years. Allowing this fill to occur would directly <br /> contribute to the overall cumulative loss of wetland habitat in this <br /> part of the state. <br /> The proposed 1.148-acre fill site is in a Palustrine Scrub Shrub and <br /> Emergent Wetland adjacent to the Yahara River. The principal plant <br /> species present in the existing and proposed fill site include <br /> jewelweed, sedges, reed canary grass, cattails, and other marsh grasses; <br /> willow and dogwood shrubs; and eastern cottonwood trees. This wetland <br /> provides high to medium habitat value for mallard, blue-winged teal, <br /> ring-necked pheasant, songbirds, mice, voles, shrews, eastern <br />