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coordinate and cooperate with the Morgan Property owners for decisions on the Irrigated <br />Cropland vegetation plan and management of the Morgan Property. <br />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 reclamation <br />land use encompasses the pre -mine land use type of Pastureland - Irrigated Hayland (IPH) and <br />Pastureland - Irrigated Grass (IP). The Pastureland - Irrigated Grass areas are generally not quite <br />as well managed as Pastureland - Irrigated Hay; they have a lesser percentage of alfalfa, slightly <br />poorer soils and may not yield as much vegetation, but overall, they are similar. The IPH areas <br />were generally baled while the IP areas were generally grazed. In many cases, the field may start <br />out as an IPH field, but over time the alfalfa percentage drops and the field becomes more like a <br />Pastureland - Irrigated Grass field. Both of these pre- mine areas are absorbed into the post -mine <br />use of Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland (IP). In all cases of discussions of post mine vegetation <br />and land use, Reclaimed Irrigated Pastureland may be referred to as Irrigated Pasture (IP). <br />2.3 Pastureland - Irrigated Swales (IPSW) <br />These areas are generally low-lying areas which drain irrigated fields around them. They are not <br />directly irrigated but usually have substantial water from the surrounding fields. They can have <br />wetland plants and these area are not managed or baled. For post -mine land use success, they are <br />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 grasses, <br />forbs and shrubs, with the intent that these areas will be grazed by livestock animals for their <br />permanent post -mine land use. Much of these areas were either dry pastures or sagebrush <br />rangelands in the pre -mine condition. Some lands that were previously irrigated but do not now <br />have the water needed for irrigation may be converted to Dryland Pasture. There is no sagebrush <br />shrub in the post -mine Dryland Pasture. Two shrubs will be planted from seed for Dryland Pasture <br />tracts west of 2700 Road, which are forage kochia and fourwing saltbush. No shrubs were planted <br />east of 2700 Road. <br />January 2015 TR -66 2.05.4(2)(e) - 3 <br />