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Date: March 24, 2014
<br />Subject: Williams/Illinois Gravel Pit
<br />Recommended Reclamation Seeding Mix
<br />The Williams/ Illinois pit is located on a cabin sandy loam site. The slopes are 2 to 5 percent.
<br />Runoff is medium, the hazard of wind erosion is severe and the hazard of water erosion is
<br />moderate. Precipitation ranges from 9 to 18 inches a year and weather conditions are quite cold
<br />year round. The soils present are consistent with a typical dry mountain loam range site.
<br />The existing vegetation includes streambank wheatgrass, sheep fescue, muttongrass, pine
<br />needlegrass, Letterman needlegrass, Sandberg bluegrass, junegrass and traces of bluebunch
<br />wheatgrass, squirreltail, and Nevada bluegrass. These grasses form a sparse stand beneath an
<br />open stand of big sagebrush, with smaller amounts of bitterbrush and rabbitbrush. Forbs on the
<br />site include lupine, pussytoes, aster, fleabane, yarrow, bluebells, buckwheat, phlox, fringed sage
<br />and snakeweed.
<br />Therefore, the following reclamation mix is recommended:
<br />Common Name
<br />Scientific Name
<br />% of Mix
<br />States Depwbusat of Agrkmftwe
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<br />Mountain Brome
<br />Natural Resources Conservation
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<br />Walden Feld Office
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<br />Date: March 24, 2014
<br />Subject: Williams/Illinois Gravel Pit
<br />Recommended Reclamation Seeding Mix
<br />The Williams/ Illinois pit is located on a cabin sandy loam site. The slopes are 2 to 5 percent.
<br />Runoff is medium, the hazard of wind erosion is severe and the hazard of water erosion is
<br />moderate. Precipitation ranges from 9 to 18 inches a year and weather conditions are quite cold
<br />year round. The soils present are consistent with a typical dry mountain loam range site.
<br />The existing vegetation includes streambank wheatgrass, sheep fescue, muttongrass, pine
<br />needlegrass, Letterman needlegrass, Sandberg bluegrass, junegrass and traces of bluebunch
<br />wheatgrass, squirreltail, and Nevada bluegrass. These grasses form a sparse stand beneath an
<br />open stand of big sagebrush, with smaller amounts of bitterbrush and rabbitbrush. Forbs on the
<br />site include lupine, pussytoes, aster, fleabane, yarrow, bluebells, buckwheat, phlox, fringed sage
<br />and snakeweed.
<br />Therefore, the following reclamation mix is recommended:
<br />Common Name
<br />Scientific Name
<br />% of Mix
<br />Cool/Warm
<br />Ht (ft)
<br />Mountain Brome
<br />Bromus marginatus
<br />20 .
<br />Cool
<br />1 -3'
<br />Slender Wheatgrass
<br />Elymus trachycaulus
<br />20
<br />Cool
<br />1.5-4'
<br />Streambank Wheatgrass
<br />Elymus lanceolatus
<br />10
<br />Cool
<br /><1'
<br />Rocky Mtn/Idaho Fescue
<br />Festuca saximontana
<br />10
<br />Cool
<br />1.2'
<br />Prairie Junegrass
<br />Koeleria cristata
<br />5
<br />Cool
<br />1 -2'
<br />Thickspike Wheatgrass
<br />Elymus lanceolatus
<br />10
<br />Cool
<br />1 -3'
<br />Beardless Wheatgrass
<br />Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. Inermis
<br />.10
<br />Cool
<br />1.5-4'
<br />Bottlebrush Squirreltail
<br />Elymus elymoides
<br />5
<br />Cool
<br />1 -2'
<br />Sandberg Bluegrass
<br />Poa secunda
<br />10
<br />Cool
<br /><1'
<br />This mix is adapted for dry mountain conditions and good for restoration, forage and wildlife
<br />purposes.
<br />Seeding rate: 50# per acre broadcast seeded, 2 -5 #/1000 sq. ft. for smaller areas.
<br />Mountain Brome, Rapid developing, short lived, medium sized, cool season bunchgrass. Native to the
<br />intermountain west.
<br />Slender Wheatgrass, Important, native cool season, short-lived perennial bunchgrass. Early seral species found in
<br />northern Great Plains, northern Rocky Mountains and Intermountain regions.
<br />Streambank Wheatgrass, Native of western U.S., northern Great Plains and western Intermountain region of the
<br />U.S. Drought - tolerant, cool season, long - lived, perennial sod former.
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