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Exhibit B <br />Site Description <br />The entire site was previously placer mined with dredge boats. In addition, <br />this site is presently permitted for mining. Alpine Rock company obtained a 112 <br />permit (referred to as the Swan River Resource Operation) for 352 acres in 1993 <br />which includes the 9.9 acres parcel that is the subject of this application. This <br />application is Rock Island Land Company's (RILC) request for a permit to do the <br />same thing Alpine Rock was permitted to do in 1993. <br />There is no undisturbed land within the permit boundary. The 9.9 acre permit <br />boundary (i.e., the affected land) shown on the attached maps has been carefully <br />drawn to encompass only placer dredge spoils (tailing). <br />Vegetation <br />The dredge spoils are not vegetated. The only vegetation within the permit <br />boundary is the occasional evergreen tree (Lodgepole Pine or Engelmann Spruce) <br />growing directly on the dredge tailing itself. Prior to dredging, the area was probably <br />a willow Carr/subalpine bog. <br />Lands outside the spoils consist of normal riparian vegetation in the <br />bottomland and subalpine vegetation on the hillsides. Species present outside the <br />permit boundary in the undisturbed area include Sagebrush, Bitterbrush, <br />Rabbitbrush, Wheatgrasses, eluegrasses, Tufted Hairgrass, Sedges, Red-berried <br />Elder Berry, Lodgepole Pine, Engelmann Spruce, Blue Spruce, and Aspen. <br />No Threatened or Endangered, State or Federal plant species are known to <br />occupy the site. <br />Soils <br />As with vegetation, there are no developed soils within the permit boundary <br />because all of the area inside the permit boundary consists of placer dredge tailing. <br />Even in the undisturbed area outside this permit boundary, these high mountain soils <br />can scarcely be referred to as topsoil. Growth medium is perhaps a more <br />appropriate term. <br />Permanent, Man-made Structures Outside Permit Area <br />All permanent man-made structures within 200 feet of the permit area are <br />shown on Exhibit E, Mining/Reclamation Map. The site is fairly remote. RILC has <br />constructed a couple of log cabins south of the permit boundary. The initial part of <br />the ongfinal access road to the site is now a driveway to the cabins. The cabins are <br />more than 200 feet from the permit boundary. The only other sign'rficant, valuable or <br />permanent man-made structure within 200 feet of the affected land is Tiger Road <br />(County Road 6). <br />4 <br />