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SCC and Rocky Mountain Research Station will shaze responsibilities for this srudy in order to take • <br />advantage of our respective resources. SCC will assume responsibility for obtaining the saplings, <br />contracting equipment and manpower to trattsplattt trees, constructing the drip irrigation system, and <br />fencing the study site. Rocky Mountain Reseazch Station will supervise the transplanting, design the <br />drip irrigatiot system, and monitor icrigaton system performance. SCC will famish the 2,000 gallon <br />water tank to feed the system, and keep it supplied with water. Rocky Mountain Reseazch Station will <br />provide environmental monitoring instruments, collect, process, and analyze all measurements and <br />data, and produce a summary report of results to be submitted by SCC to the CDMG. The timing <br />and initiation of this study and plan is predicated on the cooperation and signed agreements between <br />SCC and the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Reseazch Station (RMRS). <br />The proposed schedule for conducting the Aspen Study is as follows. <br />Select and survey study site Summer 2003 <br />Place modified topsoil treatment Summer, 2003 <br />Contract negotiations with SCC & RMRS January-Mazch 2004 <br />Select trees to be transplanted Summer 2004 <br />Install imgation system Prior to Planting-Fall 2004 <br />Plant trees Fa112004 • <br />Construct Fence Immediately after planting aces <br />Operate irrigation system May -August 2005 <br />Colley tree survival and growth data End of August, 2005 <br />Submit final report Mazch 1, 2006 <br />Appendix 22-3, Aspen Study Plan, contains a detailed methodology for conducting the aspen <br />transplant study and suggests additional techniques for augmenting aspen establishment. <br />SCC will transplant 400 aspen sapling stock to the Aspen Test Plot. An additiona1400 aspen sapling <br />stock will be transplanted to the Aspen Planting Area in Section 23 (see Exhibit 22-I). The aspen <br />sapling stock will be harvested from select azeas of the Yoast Mine. The saplings will be planted in <br />individually dug holes. At the time of planting each sapling will be pruned from the bottom so that <br />only the terminal leader and one whorl of lateral branches remain to help balance root/shoot ratios <br />and transpiration loads. <br />To provide for a future aspen sapling stock, SCC will develop several aspen Farm azeas within the • <br />Seneca II-W permit azea. Exhibit 22-3, Aspen Farm Areas, shows the locations where SCC will <br />develop future aspen sapling stock for transplanting in the Aspen Planting Areas. SCC will <br />MR _SR <br />26 <br />