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Exhibit 5 <br />Bowie Resources -Proposed Waste Rock Disposal Area <br />Baseline Vegetation Survey <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />1.1 General <br />Cedar Creek Associates, Inc. (Cedar Creek) was requested in 2003 to evaluate the vegetation <br />resources (plant communities) witfiin and adjacent to the potential disturbance boundaries of the <br />proposed Bowie Resources Waste Rods Disposal Area (WRDA) in accordance with Rule 2.04.10 of the <br />Colorado Revised Rules and Regulations. Most of this proposed new disturbance occurs within an <br />approximate 40-aue area that was mapped, but not sampled, during original baseline surveys. (A minor <br />amount of disturbance will occur within previously permitted /disturbed areas.) Original mapping <br />indicated that two plant communities (Mbced Shrubland and Juniper Woodland) occur within this <br />• vegetation study area. Srte-sperific surveys veriFed this finding, however, minor modification to <br />previously delineated boundaries were necessary (see Map Vl). <br />In accordance with Rule 2.04.10 as well as 4.15 subsections 7 - 10 of the Colorado Revised Rules, <br />and pursuant to agreements reached during phone conversations with Ms. Sandy Brown of the Colorado <br />Division of Minerals and Geology (June, 2003), vegetation studies were initiated. Feld sampling for the <br />dirediy measurable variables of ground cover and production, as well as an indirect determination of <br />species composition (diversity), was systematicalty conducted within the twa communities oczupying the <br />proposed disturbance area as well as the established reference areas for these two types. Per agreement <br />with CDMG personnel, determination of woody plant density was deemed unnecessary given previously <br />collected baseline data and that faed-value success standards for density have been established. <br />Sampling was conducted from July 21 - 24, 2003 by and/or under the direct supervision of Cedar <br />Creek's Plant Ecologist, Mr. Erik M. Mohr; and vegetation parameters were collected from all four <br />designated areas. Depending on area, ground Dover was determined from up to 25 samples while <br />production was determined from up th 50 samples. In addition to these quantitative efforts, current <br />• conditions at the time of sampling were documented by several photos (see Plates Vl - Vll) to provide a <br />visual demonstration ofsite-conditions at the time of sampling. <br />CmAlt Cirmt AssoCIA76, INC. Page 1 E~diibit 5 -Bowie WRDA Vegetation Survey <br />