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~_ <br />a . <br />UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT SOII!1CONSERVATION CRIPPLE CREEL: <br />• OF AGRTCULTUFE SERVICE FIELD OFFIL"E <br />,,, <br />" ~ ~ i { J ~ ~ -~-- /~'~ ~ ~1 C Kl February 16 , 1993 <br />T0: City of Cripple Creel; <br />FROM : Leon S . l':ot , DC~~ <br />SUBJECT: Gravel F'it on BLM land--Section 3~, T14 RS9 <br />Back:ground Information <br />The site of the proposed gravel operation is in the <br />Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 3~, <br />T14S F'69W, 6th F'.M. The site is north and west of Gillett, <br />in Teller County. The elevation of the area is <br />appro>:imately 97 vii feet, with mean annual rainfall of about <br />18 inches and additional amounts of moisture in the form of <br />snow. Current land use is grazeable rangeland, and only a <br />limited amount of shrubs are present on the site. See <br />attached copies of aerial and topographic information for <br />site location information. <br />Soils have not been mapped in the area vet as the Teller <br />County Soil Survey is still being carried out. Soils <br />generally correspond to the Rl-Raleigh, very gravelly SL unit-- <br />see attachments. The site is just east of Fourmile Road, <br />and tapers to the east and southeast to an intermittent <br />drainageway--the upper reaches of West Beaver Creel::. Slopes <br />range from 3 percent on the upper, flatter part of the site, <br />to about 8 r_o ltJ percent on the lower part of the unit. <br />Mean average air temperature is appro::imately 42 degrees F. <br />On February 4, 1993 .Jesse Bielz and myself made a site visit <br />to the area. Vegetative types were informally inventoried, <br />due to the snow cover preventing a more in-depth review, and <br />the results are listed below. <br />Grass?s: Arizona fescue, prairie junegrass, slimstem <br />and mountain muhiv. <br />Shrubs: S"hrubby cinquefoil, fringed sagebrush and <br />rabbitbrush. <br />Forbs: F'enstemon, asters, herbaceous cinquefoil, and <br />buckwheat. <br />Reclamation F'1 an, and Comments <br />The city plans to use Fourmile Raad as a haul road to reach <br />Highway 67, due to its immediate pro::imity to the gravel <br />site. From b to L inches of topsoil will be left on the <br />site after mining, from soil stocl::piled at the commencement <br />