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• Exhibit 5 -Bowie Resources -Proposed Load-out - <br />Baseline Vegetation Survey <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />1.1 eneral <br />Cedar Creek Assodates, Inc. (Cedar Creek) was contracted in 2000 to evaluate the baseline plant <br />communties within the potential disturbance boundaries of the proposed Bowie Resources Load-out <br />Fadlity in accordance with Rule 2.04.10 of the Revised Rules and Regulations. Fve plant community <br />types and one land-use type were delineated within the vegetation study area from aerial photographs <br /><~, ~ and verified on the ground. These five plant communities were pasture, irrigated hayfield, orchard, <br />~, '`: , ,. derelict areas (induding rightsoi-way and fallow land), and riparian /wetland. The singular land use type <br />~- - <br />' was that of residential /industrial, induding transportation arterials. One additional plant community type <br />• ~ (pinon -juniper woodland /mountain brush) occurs external to the identified vegetation study area, but <br />within one-halt mile of the project area. <br />In accordance with Rule 2.04.10 as well as 4.15 subsections 7 - 10 of the Colorado Revised Rules <br />and pursuant to agreements reached during a meeting with representatives of the Colorado Division of <br />Minerals and Geology (June 16, 2000), vegetation studies were initiated at the Bowie study area. <br />Vegetation studies were first designed to stratify the area in the aforementioned plant communities and <br />land use types. Following stratification and field verification, field sampling was designed to address the <br />directly measurable variable of ground cover as well as an indirect determination oT species diversity <br />within three communities (pastures, derelict, and irrigated hayfields). Current annual vegetation <br />production was sampled only within the pasture and irrigated hayfields communities in addition to crop <br />yield data for both the irrigated hayfields and orchards. Tree densit}r was determined for both the derelict <br />and orchards types. Because the riparian /wetland community is mostly exterior to the vegetation study <br />area (only 1.0 aae transcends this boundary) and does not conflict with any proposed disturbance <br />footprints, quantitative sampling was not required. Instead, a thorough qualitative evaluation was <br />conducted. Sampling was not conducted within the residential /industrial land use type (19.84 aces) <br />because of past and on-going disturbance to the ground and / or lack of plant cover. <br />• <br />~1®~ ~!~ .~. CD~Q.'Q~'S@C, tuc. Page 1 Exhibit 5- Bawie Baseline Vegetatbn Survey <br />