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the SCS classification system are herein defined as the peat - <br />producing region of the state. The SCS defines the areas as: <br />area 48a is the Southern Rocky Mountain Area; area 48b is the <br />Southern Rocky Mountain Parks Area; area 51 is the High <br />Intermountain Valleys Area. Figure 1 shows the boundary of the <br />peat - producing region, and the location of MLRAs 48a, 48b, and 51 <br />within the state. <br />Figure 1 is a small scale representation of possible peat <br />bearing lands and is necessarily very generalized in nature. A <br />dedicated survey completed at the county level is the only method <br />by which a higher resolution of peat resource locations can be <br />obtained. <br />2.2 Colorado Peat Resource Area Estimate <br />Wetlands are commonly thought to be a limited ecosystem type <br />in the State of Colorado. Peatlands, as a subset of the wetland <br />type, comprise only a small fraction of the total wetland acreage <br />in the state. Other than early National Wetland Inventory Maps <br />produced for the Front Range - -which due to low accuracy are to be <br />re -done soon - -few statewide studies of wetland area have been <br />conducted. Of those that have been completed none deal directly <br />with peatland area, or presence of peaty soils. <br />The total peatland area existing in Colorado was estimated <br />using soil survey data on organic soils as a sample set, and <br />Major Land Resource Area (MLRA) classifications (SCS 1981) to <br />12 <br />