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Gravel, Fry Sand and Gravel). Many of the other firms are <br />general excavators or haulers primarily, and peat excavators <br />secondarily (ie. D. Gerd Trucking, Nostrand Trucking). <br />The total number of excavators operating at any one time is <br />quite variable, however, because some operators, having finished <br />their last excavation and not yet working a new one, are <br />temporarily inactive and consider themselves out of the peat <br />business. It seems as though this may be a more -or -less normal <br />occurrence for the smaller operators, particularly those who <br />excavate peat as a compliment to, or component of, their overall <br />business activities. <br />The vast majority of operations serve the metropolitan Front <br />Range. As a rule of thumb, the distance to market is less than <br />100 miles (for bulk material), although some of the firms in <br />South Park are very close to that limit. Additionally, markets <br />in the Grand Junction area support several small firms operating <br />near Grand Mesa. <br />Two firms are known to process and bag the excavated peat <br />for retail sale. They are Permagreen Products of Arvada, and <br />Hyponex, Inc. of Fountain. Of the two Hyponex is the larger, and <br />ships a proportion of its material to at least eight states in <br />the region. Hyponex is a subsidiary of Scotts - Hyponex, a <br />national manufacturer of horticultural supplies based in <br />Marysville, Ohio. <br />Appendix A lists all known peat operators in the state of <br />Colorado. The list includes all likely but unconfirmed peat <br />• 21 <br />