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• Color & Texture: Land contrasts of color will be moderate >n the <br />short term. The buff color of the exposed soils will show through <br />the early revegetation corer but this will not attract undue <br />attention when seen in context with the much larger expanses of <br />buff colored unvegetated cut and fill slopes associated with <br />Stevens Gulch Road. Due to the uniform height and light green <br />color of the initial revegetation, the color and textural <br />contrasts in vegetation will be moderate. These plant materials <br />are chazacteristic of the site but not in large uniform masses. <br />Land form contrast of texture will be very weak. <br />Intrusion:: Non-vegetated disturbance associated with the existing <br />"Blouch Road" presently represents moderate to strong contrasts with <br />the characteristic landscape. The new raid, with application of the <br />proposed mitigation measures, will result in no greater and probably <br />less contrast than the existing disturbance. <br />VRM Class: The foreground visibility of the road places it in a VRM <br />Class III. The moderate and weak contrast ratings fall within the <br />criteria of the Management Objective for VRM Class III. <br />Segment II <br />Visibility: The location of this segment of proposed raid on a <br />steeply sloping hillside fifty to eighty feet above the proposed <br />• portal site exposes the road to greater visibility than the portal <br />site as described earlier. The non-Vegetated disturbance associated <br />with the existing Blouch Road is identifiable fran the west ends of <br />Stucker Mesa and Stewart Mesa. In these limited viewing zones, <br />slightly greater attention is drawn to the proposed intrusion by the <br />convergence of land forms which tend to direct the eye to the area of <br />the existing and proposed disturbance. <br />Contrast Rating: <br />Line & Form: Contrast in line and form of land and Vegetation <br />aze anticipated to be moderate. The full bench wt design will <br />allow trees on the outside edge of the road to remain undisturbed <br />thereby providing rnanerous interruptions to the engineered line of <br />the road platform. <br />Color & Texture: Color contrasts in both land foam and <br />vegetational features will be moderate. The buff to brown soil <br />and light green revegetation will contrast with the im:recliate <br />surrounding darker green vegetation. Although when seen in the <br />larger context the adjacent mountain slopes contain large azeas of <br />exposed lighter colored soils which blend with the proposed <br />disturbance. Textural contrasts will be weak because of the <br />distance from the viewer. <br />• 6 <br /> <br />