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• 2.04.3 Pre-Mine Land Use. Swale Drainage areas are now listed as Pastureland -Irrigated - <br />Swale. Ponds are called Developed Water Resource-Ponds. There are no Facility areas. <br />Cropland consists of irrigated orchards and irrigated grass hay areas that are extensively <br />managed. There are other crop areas in the vicinity for silage com and alfalfa but none in the <br />permit area. Pastureland consists of Irrigated Pasture that is some mix of alfalfa and/or grass <br />hay. The former category Irrigated Hayland has been replaced by primarily Irrigated <br />Pastureland because of lower levels of management, less frequent baling in addition to soils <br />that are not optimum. <br />We believe that one area of former Irrigated Hayland should be classified as Irrigated Cropland <br />on the Morgan property due to consistent baling of hay and good soils. On the other hand, two <br />areas of irrigated cropland (25.02 acres) that are shown on Map 2.04.3, which were mapped in <br />1987 as Cropland immediately north and west of Pond 7 have been determined to be irrigated <br />pasture areas instead. This is due to poor soils (See Section 2.04.9) and the fact that most of <br />this land is on the Burbridge property and he did not manage it intensively. As stated in Section <br />2.04.10 Vegetation Information, "Burbridge does not manage for alfalfa in his hay fields and <br />does not regularly renovate these fields because of shallow soils and rock ledges. <br />Consequently these haylands are dominated by a variety of desirable and increaser grasses, <br />red and white Dutch clover, weedy fort species and occasional alfalfa plants': No changes <br />have been made to the boundaries and classifications of these areas from the 1987 and 1999 <br />studies, however, these changes are reflected in the post-mine land uses for reclamation. <br />• <br />There are 5 types of Rangeland -Sagebrush, Sagebrush 1 and Sagebrush 2, Floodplain and <br />Deciduous Trees. Roads are classified as Commercial use and Farmsteads and associated <br />open space disturbances are now classified as Residential use. Existing Disturbed lands have <br />now been called Residential -Open Space Areas. No boundaries of these land use areas have <br />been changed,• only the classification categories to comply with Rule 1.04. <br />(Revised 28Ju1y06) <br />2.04.3-6 <br />