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DATE: February 3, 2014 <br />NAME OF MINE OPERATOR: <br />HUERFANO COUNTY GOVERNMENT <br />401 Main Street Suite 201 <br />Walsenburg, CO 81089 <br />NAME OF MINE: PEAK VIEW GRAVEL PIT <br />MLRB NUMBER: M- - <br />APPROXIMATE SIZE OF PROPERTY: 40.0 ACRES <br />1.OManagement Goals: Management goals describe the purpose /use of the property and <br />what you are trying to achieve. Having clear management goals is key to developing a <br />weed management control and management plan. (A management goal may be to restore <br />an area with native vegetation and promote rangeland, or to promote wildlife habitat,) <br />"Management Goal(s): To achieve the goal of noxious weed control the <br />applicant /operator will commit inspect the permit area starting on the outward side of <br />the boundary to observe if any noxious weeds have a potential for invading the Permit <br />Boundary. Then proceed to closely inspect the entire interior of the Permit Boundary <br />for invasive noxious weeds. <br />The procedure described above will commence in April of each calendar year and be <br />repeated bi- monthly through October of the calendar year. Each inspection will duly note any <br />noxious weeds and state the location on site (mapped) and the action taken to control the <br />noxious weeds such as chemical, biological or mechanical method where use to stop the <br />spread of the infestation. This procedure will continue for the life of the mine until the Mined <br />Land Reclamation Board has release the Permit and returned the financial warranty to the <br />applicant/ operator. <br />The aim of this Noxious Weed Control Plan is to formulate and incorporate the plan as part of <br />the RECLAMATION PLAN. This is part of the mine site reclamation during the active mining <br />and the reclamation period. Thus this is the applicants /operators Integrated Weed <br />Management (I WM) guide. "* <br />2.0 Weed Control Objectives: Objectives are derived from your management goals. They <br />are formed by inventorying the weeds you have on the mine site, determining how they <br />affect your management goals (For example, does the weed reduce forage? <br />Poison livestock? Or crowd out native species ?), and determining the most efficient ways <br />to control those weeds. Sometimes a weed control objective will be to simply contain an <br />