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<br />• Municipal/residential areas ere generally confined to the town of Hayden and its immediate <br />vicinity. However, isolated family structures or farmsteads exist irregularly throughout <br />[he area. <br />Commercial/industrial uses include the Tempe Valley Airport, the Hayden Generating Station, <br />end five active or inactive surface coal mining activities (Figure 1). Scattered oil, <br />gas, end methane drilling activities were prevalent in the mid-1980's. <br />Table 4-1 presents typical productivity figures and Livestock stocking numbers for the <br />various agricultural land uses in Routt County. The dominant land use in the county is <br />livestock grazing on approximately 450,000 acres of rangeland. Per acre stocking rates can <br />not be given due to insufficient production date on the numerous and highly variable <br />vegetation types and individual operator objectives. <br />Another regional lend use category is fish and wildlife habitat which incorporates land <br />uses given over wholly or partially to the production, protection, or management of fish <br />end wildlife species. Yhile there are no specific intensively managed uses of this type <br />present, the area is part of the Colorado Division of Nildlife's Big Game Management Unit <br />- No. 13. Most wildlife related use occurs simultaneously Nith the other land uses in the <br />area. <br />Lend Use Yithin and Adjacent to the Permit Area <br />Historic end present land use in and adjacent to the loadout facility is agriculture, <br />rangeland, industrial and wildlife habitat. Cropping and livestock grazing have been the <br />most intensive uses. The primary land use within [he proposed permit area following <br />construction of the loadout end rail loop in 1979 has been industrial. Exhibit 4.1 is an <br />aerial photograph of the area in and surrounding the permit area. Lend use patterns can <br />be eLeerly seen on Exhibit 4-1 in relation to the loadout facility end rail loop, and will <br />assist in review of the information in Tab 4. The various lend uses are detailed below. <br />Aaricul[ure. Dryland cropping is currently practiced along the northern portion of the <br />rail spur in section 10 (T6N R884) and south of the loadout facility and access road (see <br />Exhibit 4-1 and Tab 10). 4inter wheat is the principle crop grown. Summer fellow is <br />practiced to build adequate soil moisture levels for crop production. Historically, <br />dryland crop production uas a primary lend use in the western portion of section 14 (T6N <br />3 <br />