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<br />Planting Guidelines <br />Nursery Plaut Materials <br />Trees and shrubs will be native and of Colorado accession. Native Cottonwoods <br />will be fertile. Hybrid species will not be accepted. Materials will meet accepted <br />horticultural specifications for nursery care, health, and vigor. <br />Nursery plants will be planted in accordance with good horticultural practices. <br />Plants will be placed on compacted or undisturbed subgrade such that the top of the <br />rootball is even with the finished grade. <br />Harvested Woody Plant Materials <br />To supplement voluntary establishment, Sandbaz Willow and Cottonwood <br />cuttings will be harvested on-site and planted. Live, young stem plantings of the <br />proper species will be collected. Cuttings will be in a dormant state when feasible. <br />Cuttings will not be collected or planted mid to late summer. Collected cuttings will <br />be taken from the parent plant with pruning sheazs. The base cut shall be angle cut, <br />and any top cuts shall be blunt to ensure upright planting. All plant material will be <br />handled with Gaze to avoid back stripping and trunk wood splitting. Cutting lengths <br />will be sufficient to reach ground water when planted. Live branch cuttings will be <br />bound together securely with twine at the collection site for ease of handling and <br />protection during transport. Live cut materials will be protected from drying at all <br />times. Cuttings not installed immediately will be kept butt end in water and stored in <br />protected locations where they are shaded and sheltered from the wind. These will be <br />planted within two days of collection. <br />Planting cuttings will be undertaken after post-mining hydrologic conditions have <br />been established. Cuttings will be planted in a staggered or random pattern. Cuttings <br />will be planted by "live-staking." Prepaze a hole the entire depth of the cutting. Hole <br />depths will ensure that the base of the cutting is at or slightly below ground water. <br />Live stake holes in soils may be prepared by augering or hammering a rebaz rod into <br />soils to or slightly below ground water. The cutting will be placed in the hole so that <br />the bottom is at or below normal ground-water elevation. <br />Western Mobile Lyons - Rockin' WP E-6 <br />