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h) Better success will be obtained if the seed is drilled after the mulch is disced into the soil. The reverse order would result in burying the seeds too deeply. i) The staff cannot approve the proposed plan of transplanting clumps of sagebrush onto the reclaimed surface. This would require the disturbance of additional acreage, which cannot be justified. In- stead, the applicant should plan to re-establish sagebrush by seed, containerized shrubs or transplants from areas to be disturbed. j) The proposed seed mix will be reviewed in greater detail as soon as additional soils information has been submitted (see soils comments in this letter). The reason for this is that there are apparently considerable areas of saline and sodic soils within the permit area. Revegetation of these soils will be difficult, and will require the planting of adapted species. k) For areas in which the soils are not saline and sodic, the fol- lowing comments apply: 1. All of the shrub species listed for possible. inclusion in the seed mix should be planted. A specific seeding rate for each shrub should be specified, both in terms of lbs P.L.S./acre, and, where possible, estimated P.L.S./ft2. If you should find that one or more of these species are not available when you are ready to plant, elimination of that species from the seed mix can be readily accomplished by means of a technical revision. 2. In general, the proportion of natives in the seed mix is low. If available, the following native fortis should be planted: Antennaria (pussytoes); Phlox muscoidgsor similar species (low phlox); a local aster (pacific aster not recom- mended); Potentilla (cinquefoil); Sphaeralcea coccinea (globemallow Lupines; Penstemon. The small Burnet, ar- rowleaf balsamroot and Pacific aster should be left out. 3. Several additional native grasses would also be desire- able, for instance: Bouteloua gracilis (blue 9rama); Poa 9andbergii (sandberg bluegrass Koeleria cristata (prairie junegrass Stipa viridula (green needlegrass . 4. The staff would recommend eliminating the smooth brome; the slender, pubescent, intermediate~thickspike and beard- less wheatgrasses: meadow brome and kentucky bluegrass. 5. A proposed seeding rate should be specified, rather than a range. Please state the seeding rate both in terms of lbs. P.L.S./acre and P:L.S./ftZ. 1) At what time during the fall or spring would seedings be made? m) Presumably those areas topsoiled "in the late spring or early sum- mer, too late for reasonable success to be obtained with perennial species" (pg. 15), would receive a straw mulch, .in the same manner proposed for all other areas. A straw mulch will probably provide more -effective erosion control than would late-planted oats or wheat. The staff would advise against using these grains. n) The planting of serviceberry, snowberry and wood's rose would not be appropriate on the Bourg property. o) Please explain what is meant by "numerous depressions" on the reclaimed (3)