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Section 779.22 (a) Continued. • limited amount of wood utilized for fence repair and home heating, no known uses have ever been made of the wood products on the permit area. No viable market for tine aspen wood located on the site is available within Northwest Colorado. Given the remoteness of the proposed permit area from an aspen processing mill and market, it appears that the best potential use for this aspen prior to mining would be to incorporate it into the future reclamation activities as a source of mulch. Food and fiber crops are grown on the five previously described cropland areas on the Twentymile Park Land Use (Map 31). Potential yields for the area under high levels of management, are summarized on the Land Use Capabilities and Cropland Potentials Within the Proposed Energy Fuels Corporation Permit Area, Table 81. The table indicates that wheat yields as high es 35 bushels per acre have been reported by the SCS for similar soils. The most common yield • figure for dryland wheat ranges between 24 and 29 bushels per acre according to SCS estimates. Drylan3 alfalfa yields are reported by SCS to commonly range from 1.5 to 2.0 tons per acre. Yields on less favorable sites are reported to range from 0.75 to 1.5 tons per acre. Wheat yield data are not available from the farmers who cropped the land during the past several years. The only information they were able to supply was on years that crops were planted. The only cropland yield figures available for the area are those obtained from the USDA - Agricultural Conservation and Stabilization Service. The only yield estimates they have available are for 1977. Accor- ding to their estimates, cropland tract C1 had the potential of 28 bushels per acre for winter wheat. Tract C2 had the potential of 23 bushels and tract CS had the potential of 23 bushels per acre of winter wheat. n U 779-313