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faces will be reclaimed to mimic the surrounding unaffected faces. Reclamation of each bench <br /> will occur once mining on that bench is complete. Backfilling will be completed with crushed <br /> rock, boulders and potentially waste fines. Resultant mined faces will be—10% cliff face with <br /> 90% of each bench backfilled to a 2.OH:LOV slope with waste material. <br /> Topsoil and overburden are absent from the site; however, as the mined phases will be mixed <br /> intentionally roughened bedrock surfaces and backfilled to 2.OH:LOV slopes, replacement of <br /> topsoil and true overburden will not be necessary. Growth medium created using recovered plant <br /> material, sandy loam, and wood mulch will be mixed with waste fines and amendments, as <br /> needed, to create a growth medium in lieu of traditional topsoil which is absent from the site. It is <br /> anticipated that surface roughening will be completed and tree tubelings will be planted on final <br /> reclaimed faces within 1 year of finishing each mining lift. This final texture will mimic the <br /> current exclusively 17-years of volunteer revegetation on the CCP cut-and-fill slope of the WRL <br /> drainage (Figure 6). The Young Ranch Resource's commitment to revegetating with tree <br /> tubelings and shrubs with nutrient amendments, as needed, will result in faster yet just as <br /> successful revegetation as observable on the same slope today. <br /> On-contour single shank ripping to a minimum depth of 2 feet will be used at a 10-foot vertical <br /> spacing interval on WRL lifts to divide each WRL lift's final reclaimed slope drainage area by a <br /> factor of 5 (Figure 5). This will prevent erosion conditions from developing by allowing the <br /> ripped toughs to allow for infiltration of the water into the fill material. Final WRL reclamation <br /> will include catch ditches formed by on contour ripping to control stormwater runoff along the <br /> WRL slope and allow it to infiltrate the porous and dry landscape within 72 hours (Figure 5). <br /> Catch ditches along the WRL will remain cleared and maintained until reclamation is deemed <br /> complete. Following the completion of reclamation and the release of the bond by the Division, <br /> the catch benches will no longer be cleared and maintained and will be allowed to return to the <br /> conditions of the surrounding landscape. <br /> WRL lifts and mining benches will be capped with coarse blasted rock to encourage volunteer <br /> vegetation and provide micro-climates for seed germinate prior to hydroseeding and protection <br /> for tree tubelings to establish. South and west facing reclaimed slopes will be hydroseeded <br /> during the spring and fall, as needed. Wood straw created from on-site harvested trees in advance <br /> Young Ranch Resource <br /> December 2021 E-2 Lewicki&Associates <br />