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The Johnson (WFC) Property will also contain a small piece of Irrigated Cropland that will be <br />managed the same as the Morgan Property. <br />2.2 Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland (IP) <br />These reclaimed areas consist of primarily grasses but can have some alfalfa. This <br />reclamation land use encompasses the pre -mine land use type of Pastureland - Irrigated <br />Hayland (IPH) and Pastureland - Irrigated Grass (IP). The Pastureland - Irrigated Grass areas <br />are generally not quite as well managed as Pastureland - Irrigated Hay; they have a lesser <br />percentage of alfalfa, slightly poorer soils and may not yield as much vegetation, but overall, <br />they are similar. The IPH areas were generally baled while the IP areas were generally grazed. <br />In many cases, the field may start out as an IPH field, but over time the alfalfa percentage <br />drops and the field becomes more like a Pastureland - Irrigated Grass field. Both of these pre - <br />mine areas are absorbed into the post -mine use of Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland (IP). In all <br />cases of discussions of post mine vegetation and land use, Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland <br />may be referred to as Irrigated Pasture (IP). <br />2.3 Pastureland - Irrigated Swales WSW) <br />These areas are generally low-lying areas which drain irrigated fields around them. They are <br />not directly irrigated but usually have substantial water from the surrounding fields. They can <br />have wetland plants and these area are not managed or baled. For post -mine land use <br />success, they are measured in the same manner as Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland. <br />2.4 Dryland Pasture (DP) <br />These areas are restored dryland areas that focus toward establishment of adapted dryland <br />grasses, forbs and shrubs, with the intent that these areas will be grazed by livestock animals <br />for their permanent post -mine land use. Much of these areas were either dry pastures or <br />sagebrush rangelands in the pre -mine condition. Some lands that were previously irrigated but <br />do not now have the water needed for irrigation may be converted to Dryland Pasture. There is <br />no sagebrush shrub in the post -mine Dryland Pasture. Two shrubs will be planted from seed for <br />Dryland Pasture tracts west of 2700 Road, which are forage kochia and fourwing saltbush. No <br />shrubs were planted east of 2700 Road. <br />August 2013 PR -08 2.05.4(2)(e) - 3 <br />