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1 EXHIBIT D Wildlife, Water Resources, Vegetation, and Soils Infor mation ' Existing Site Conditions, Most of the permit area has been disturbed by past gravel mining operations and has never been reclaimed. A mound of topsoil was placed in the southwest por- ' tion of the permit area and a pile of overburden material was placed in the northwest portion of the permit area and have re- mained there for about 5-6 years. No undisturbed topsoil occurs t on the permit area. Wildlife. Table 1 shows wildlife species occurrence by vegetation type for common types near the permit area. No suit- ' able wildlife habitat exists within the disturbed permit area for these species except for small burrowing mammals such as deer mice or ground squirrels. ' Water Resources. The mining operation is not expected to affect or be affected by surface or ground water. Depths to water table are shown in Table 2 for nearby USGS monitoring well locations along Kiowa Creek. The permit area is not situated in any major or minor drainageway. The stream channel of Kiowa ' Creek is 2500 ft. to the west of the permit area. Vegetation. Vegetation on the disturbed land within the permit area consists of weedy annuals. Native vegetation on ' adjacent floodplain and upland areas is dominantly western wheat- grass, saltgrass, blue grama, and switchgrass, although much of this area has been converted to alfalfa hayland. Cottonwood trees occur immediately adjacent to the stream channel of Kiowa ' Creek. Native vegetation on terrace escarpments (Gravel Breaks Range Site) is dominantly sideoats grama, little bluestem, needleandthread, prairie clover, blue grama, hairy grama, and ' Indian ricegrass. Native vegetation on uplands (Sandy Plains and Deep Sand Range Sites) is blue grama, sand bluestem, prairie sandreed, sideoats grama, needleandthread, sand dropseed, three- awn, little bluestem, and scattered yucca. These upland areas ' are used as pasture. ' Soils. Soils on the permit area have been disturbed and removed from place during past gravel mining operations. The Soil Conservation Servicel has mapped this area as Terrace Escarpments, a miscellaneous land type consisting of steep faces ' of terraces that border bottomlands and floodplains. Alluvium of variable texture overlays unconsolidated gravel and sand at very shallow depths. Slopes are 1 to 80 percent and are vertical or nearly vertical in places. Some undisturbed areas of Terrace ' Escarpments occur adjacent to the permit area. ' IUSDA, Soil Conservation Service, 1974. Soil Survey of Adams County, Colorado. In cooperation with Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station. Denver, Colorado 1 ' ~.4