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them. The shrubs were grouped three or four to a basin. A drip <br />irrigation system was installed for these plantings in May 1980. <br />In the fall of 1980 several large lodgepole pine, aspen, choke- <br />cherry, cottonwood, and gallon-size potentilla were also planted on <br />the slope east of the parking lot. <br />The slope just west of the parking lot was seeded in the fall <br />of 1980 with the following mix: <br />S ep Cles Rate in lbs/acre <br />Western Wheatgrass 8 <br />Slender Wheatgrass 8 <br />Streambank Wheatgrass 2 <br />Sherman Big Bluegrass 4 <br />Canada Bluegrass 4 <br />Indian Ricegrass 2 <br />Rocky Mountain Penstemon 1/4 <br />Blue Flax 1/4 <br />Yarrow 1 /4 <br />Golden Banner 1 /4 <br />Globemallow I/4 <br />Fireweed 1/4 <br />Sulfur Eriogonum 1/4 <br />The seed was raked in cn this slope. <br />Additional construction was done on the slope behind the <br />tipple the summer of 198G and this slope was reseeded and raked the <br />fall of 1980 with the following mix: <br />S ep cies <br />Western Wheatgrass <br />Slender Wheatgrass <br />Streambank Wheatgrass <br />Sherman Big Bluegrass <br />Canada Bluegrass <br />Indian Ricegrass <br />Rate in lbs/acre <br />8 <br />8 <br />2 <br />4 <br />4 <br />2 <br />This same slope was again reseeded in June of 1981 with 10 <br />pounds of crested wheatgrass and 10 pounds of Russian wildrye and <br />mulched with excelsior matting (Photograph 161. <br />Management <br />All of the slopes around the building and mine complex have <br />been fertilized the past two springs with 30-10-0 at a rate of <br />approximately 120 Ibs/acre. <br />