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B <br />on on-site observation, the dominate vegetation consists of the following: <br />crop to be mined: <br />-85% Mountain Mahogany (Cercoca~pus montanus) <br />10% Yucca (Yucca glauca) <br />ow areas surrounding the outcrop: <br />Cheatgrass (Brromus tectorum) <br />nsitional areas between outcrop and meadow areas: <br />-85% Needle-and-thread (Stipa neomexicana) <br />10% Yucca (Yucca glauca) <br />low-lying area to the west of the site included Sanbar Willow (salix exigua), <br />onwood (populus augustafolia) and miscellaneous grasses. Other plants observed <br />to included a variety of forties and grasses, including some invasive plants such as <br />.le loosestrife. Several of these could not be identified because of the lack of flower <br />fs at the time of observation. <br />surface soil material appears rocky, and is described as being shallow, up to 6 inches <br />:, with rapid permeability. To date soil samples have not been analyzed for available <br />ents related to re-vegetation measures that will be needed to re-establish vegetation. <br />Surface soils include stony sandy loam, approximately 5 inches thick. <br />fining operations will include the removal of the surface material to be stockpiled <br />dely from the overburden that will be removed and processed for landscape rock <br />materials. Additional information provided below. <br />perimeter berm will be created along the boundary of the quarry site on the west side <br />jacent to the wetland and wetland buffer. On the east side, overburden will be <br />~ckpiled into 6' berms, which will reduce in visual impacts and improve sound <br />bilization practices and re-vegetation procedures described below will be performed <br />all disturbed materials: Wetland berms, stockpiles, overburden berms, and post- <br />ning cells that are being reclaimed. <br />Plan Objectives <br />• To prescribe concurrent grading, contouring, drainage, and re-vegetation as parts <br />of a phased mining operation. <br />• To establish a post mining use that blends with the surrounding landscape, <br />available for grazing, hunting and habitat creation. <br />• To consider the temporary nature of the post mining environment given the <br />imminent future of a reservoir that will inundate the site. <br />• To establish landscape recovery that is self-sustaining and persistent. <br />1 <br />