PERMFILE71420

• Permit No: M1990047
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/18/1990
• Doc Name: PROPOSED QUAGMIRE CREEK GRAVEL PIT
• From: USDA
• To: FREMONT COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING DEPT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Agriculture Service
SIIE~ECT: Proposed Qu3grnire Creeb: Gravel Fit
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24y Dozier A„onlJa
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TO: Marshall Sutler
Assi=_tant Planning Director
Fremcnt i_ounty Planning and =vning Departmen±
615 Macon A~renue
Canes City, CO 81212
This letter is in response to yrur letter dated May 11,1990
:_vncerning the Fremont :=7lnty Quagmire _reel•: Flt Reclamation P13n. i hav?
looked over the material you received from Thomas A. Schr?finer,
?ecl3mat,vn Sc?~='=. -.~', h1LRD, and will address som? cvnr?rns of mine and
at±emPt to clarity !•~h3t I trv to arrOnlPl•ish :•~.h,en I Put together a
r?rl.amation seed o;?~.
A. 1 ML P,D YeCn'fi I'i lla nr_?d e1.3nt ;n.3 IIP~gYcanll and Hard FaSrUe a5 shnYt teY1i1
ground covar for tFla topsoi' s'ocl•Piles. It will be interesting to se?
hrna ,sell this performs. If it do?=_ the ivb th?n it should also reduce the
amount of annual WBBd seed=_. vnu +•,ili have to deal ,n~ith at the time of
reclamation. One comment is that to Ylleet SC.= spe•=ifi:=ations for seeding
rate .at 60 p?r r?nt of the Yn1;<. (as oar '_OlOY3d0 Agronarny Note No. 61,
attached) 'rou would need to plar:t Hard F?sr~e at a gate of 2.4 PLS #/A.
E.) In developing a mix I cvnsid?r th? ?any? '=fifes ?ncountered, the
potential Plant community, the actual plant corn rnun ity, spec ;.es I e::pect to
provide the ~uicl<: cover needed to protFrt the soil from erasion after the
mulch is gone, what natives species do best on those sites, and what
Species 3Ye re3dliy aN3113b1e at 3 re=_svnahle price. In th7s Case I
e,.;p?:_ted W?st?rn Whe.at•grass ':?0%), Pubescent Wh?at9ra==_ (25`.4?, Hard FeSCUe
(15:41, and Indian Rir?grass !10%' to provide adequate rover by the se:=ond
year. Western Wh?atgrass 1^-•0!e), .Arizvn.3 FesCUe (207?, and Indian
P.icegr3ss 110:) are native to the sit?. MLR^ has recvnnnended substituting
Mountain Erome, !•lvuntain Muhly, Cicer'=_ Milb:: Vetch, Roclry Mountain
Penstemon, and Ciiffrose far Pub?s.?nt Whe3t9rass, Hard Fescue fbvth
introduced speciesl and Indian Ricegrass. I have ne problem 1.,ith going tv
3n all native min; if that is what MLRD wants, Cut i 1„ould sug5?st some
-vmpremis?s as folle~..r.
1.? Plount.ain Muhly is na±;.+~e to the site and found in substantial
qu3ntit l?s :,n both the Loamy Parl•. and '~hallo,•.~ Pine P,ange Sites. Howe+~er,
it has a very limited commercial seed source, is hard to get, and
e>:pensive. I +•!vuld Bugg?st going with Indian Ric?grass which is also
nativ? to the Biro, found on the site and available though any 1n3jor seed
supplier. Indian ?'c?gr3s=_ h33 shrn•m _xce7lent success in Critical Area
Plantings in areas in Resource Aran 4gYluhen getting 15 inches of
pr?~=ipitation or 1?ss.
2.1 Nlvunta+n ?rorlre is n3ti•,e to the ~_oarny Farb:: Range Site. I did
not find .any ,n my inventory. It '•s not native to the Shallow Pin? Rang?
Sit?• Mountain Erome is repo,ted to show good seedling vigor and value in
r?:=iamati~~n. It is worth hry;ng vn the flatter toe slopes and I have