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-' ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~'~`•~ i <br />JUL 1 ~ i9i? <br />J STAGI1dG PLAN FOR RECLAIIATI011 <br />ftFCL!''t^~iAl'lOfd SL-C; i IAN <br />_ 1st Season During this time we propose to establish perimeter <br />_ plantings of riparian woodland communities and set up i0 fenced <br />exclosures (100' on a side). 9'he exclosures serve a three-fold <br />purpose: 1} as sources for baseline data on species composition <br />and site productivity, 2) nurseries for future plantings within (a) <br />J the excavated area and 3) for the protection of perimeter plantings. <br />2nd Season The outer banks of the first dewatering trench wi.11 <br />- be pl;.nted to shrub v+illow, alder and birch, Five additional <br />fenced exclo~~ures will be cstubli.shed during this second season. <br />3rd Season Major islands in Pond 1 will be planted to cattails, <br />and bulrushes. The objective Here is to establish goose and <br />-- duck nesting habitat. <br />4th _Season Plantings on the third island and complete work around <br />Pond 1. <br />5th Season Cattail marsh rvill be estnblished on low arras and willow <br />thickets on mound vest of Pond 1. <br />6th Season Islands on Fond 2 will be reconstructed with a view to <br />providing shorebird nesting habitat. <br />~ 7th Season Cattail marsh and wet-sedge meadow communities to the <br />south of Por.d 2 will be planted. <br />8th Season On the hill to the southwest of Pond 2 a birch grove <br />- will be established. <br />9th Season 1'det-sedge meadow blending into dry-sedge meadow and <br />grasslands will be the corimunitics to be reconstructed in tkie area <br />south of Pond 2. <br />' 10th Season Coniferous forest species will be planted at the extreme <br />J <br />southwest corner of the excavation. These will include species <br />of spruce a.nd fir around the edge of the pond, Ponderosa pii+e on <br />the top of the hill and Pinyon-Juniper woodland species along the <br />J eastern edge of the hill. <br />11th Season Plantings of grass-sedge meadow species in the area to <br />the east of the grove of conifers. <br />J <br />7 ENVIRONM IIVTAL ANALYSTS INC. <br />n( <br />(a) Dependent upon timing approval of application, some of the 1st Season's <br />work may occur during Summer 1973. <br />' ENCLOSUPE (b) <br />