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The seed mixture was selected to vegetate the disturbed areas with a specie consistent with the post-mine land use. Seeding recommendations follow: POUNDS COMMON NAME BOTANICAL NAME PLS # / AC. Mat Salibarush Atriplex Corrugata 2.0 Scarlet Globemallow Sphaeralcea Coccinea 0.5 Shadscale Saltbrush Atriplex Confertifolia 2.0 Galleta Hilaria Jamesii "Viva" 2.0 Indian Ricegrass Orysopsis Hymenoides " " 3.0 Paloma Seeding will normally be done in the fall or spring when temperatures and adequate soil moisture is present. Seeding will be accomplished by either broadcasting, or by using a seed drill. If broadcasting is used, seed rates will be doubled. Due to the nature of the overburden and topsoil found in the area; hay, straw or fiber mulch is considered to be necessary. Fiber mulch will be applied at a rate of 2,500 pounds per acre. If straw mulch is used it will be certified "weed free" and applied at a rate of 2,000 pounds per acre and either crimped or "tacified" at 150 pounds per acre. "Biosol" fertilizer will be applied at a rate of at least 1000 pounds per acre. WEED CONTROL - If necessary, weed control measures will be employed for the control of noxious weed species. Weeds listed on Mesa County's Noxious Weed List are of primary concern. Of the 19 listed weeds, Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens L.) and whitetop (Cardaria drabs) are present on the proposed wetland site. Tamarisk (Tamarix ramossissima), also onsite, appears as a "species recommended for control" on the Mesa County list. The whitetop will be treated once with EscortO in a concentration of one ounce per acre in the Spring at first bloom; or alTernatively, in the Spring with a solution of six ounces of glyphosate (RoundupC~) plus two ounces of 2- 4-D per gallon of water before flowering and again after flowering. Russian knapweed will be treated with a two percent solution of CurtailO in the Spring between bud and bloom or in the Fall just prior to dormancy. Tamarisk will be controlled at any time of year by cutting trees with trunks greater than two inches in diameter to within six inches of the ground and treating the cut stumps with a mixture of Garlon 4® and avegetable-base crop oil in a 25% solution. For trees with trunk diameters of less than two inches, a basal spray technique with a 20% solution is effective. Alternately, stands of tamarisk may be bulldozed or burned one year and the re-sprouts treated with the basal spray technique the following year. The stockpiled overburden and topsoil will be monitored for noxious weed growth and treated, if necessary, according to the above schedule. Revised October, 2002