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characteristic landscape. Spoils dumped over escarpments
would produce barren talus slopes; their vertical tri-
angular form would be foreign to the horizontally-
oriented rectangular form of rock ledges (see Fig. EIII-1,
NW Colo. Coal Regional Environmental Statement).
Cuts and fills on roads and rights-of-way character-
istically produce half-moon shaped scars foreign to all
but adjacent rimrock escarpments. When viewed parallel
to their alignment, their sharply angular contact with
natural terrain fails to borrow from the adjacent rolling
landscape.
Stream rechanneling could produce strong
that does not complement curving lines o
meanders. Silhouettes produced by spoil
mission lines, dragliaes, and vegetation
characteristically exhibit angular lines
gruous in natural landscapes.
line dominance
hillsides and
piles, trana-
clearings also
that are incon-
Large mined-over areas would result in color variations,
such as light-colored mineral soils, that draw attention
to the mining operation. The coal visible in the active
pit and barren cut-and-fill slopes would also produce
color deviations from the characteristic landscape.
Changes in the vegetative complex in reclamation opera-
tions could create hues markedly different from the
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