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2.0 Study Area Description <br />2.1 Location. The study area is located in western Montrose County on the western edge of <br />the town of Nucla, Colorado. Major cities located in relation to Nucla are Montrose, 45 air miles <br />east-northeast and Grand Junction, 57 air miles north. The remoteness of the location is <br />evidenced by the several hours required to reach Nucla by vehicle from the above cities. <br />First Park, a mesa -like landform on which the study area is located, is approximately ten miles <br />southwest of the Uncompahgre Plateau. In earlier times First Park was referred to as <br />Tabequache Park, a sagebrush and pinyon -juniper dominated landscape historically used by <br />the Ute Indians and later by ranchers running livestock on open range. <br />The study area for 1987 and 1999 includes portions of the following sections: <br />Section 6, T46N, R15W <br />NW% <br />W'/NE% <br />W'/SE%NE% <br />W'/2NE%NE% <br />N'/2NE%SW% <br />Portions of N'/SE'/ <br />Section 1, T46N, R16W <br />NE%NE%SE'/ <br />NE% <br />W'/2NW% <br />Section 36, T47N, R16W <br />S1/2SW1/4 <br />SE1/4 <br />Section 31. T47N. R15W <br />S1/2SW1/4 <br />2.1 Geology and Soils The general landform in the Nucla area is a result of the Nucla <br />Syncline, a northwest trending geologic structure containing the coal reserves in the study area. <br />This shallow, broad syncline is a simple fold with gently dipping flanks. The Cretaceous -age <br />February 2015 (TR -66) 2.04.10-2 <br />