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<br /> <br />• July 9, 198 III III III IIIIIIIIII <br />sss <br />RECEIVED <br />To Members of the Mined Land Reclamation Boards J U L 11 1989 <br />~r bIINED LAY\iJ <br />I xould like to make a few specific recommendation~rn~~~x'~~~~ OI~ISIQN <br />to the revegetatlon and reclamation efforts for the Snyder Quaa~ry <br />Amendment, On June 27, 1989. I talked with Mr, Dsn Hernandez, <br />of the Mined Land Reclamation Division, Mr, Hernandez suggest~jd <br />that I contact the Colorado State Forest Service, in Hoodland <br />Park, to verify that my recommendations xere in general agreem~ant <br />xith the State Forest Service, Having been a Landscape Archit~:ct <br />in E1 Paso County for the last six years, I feel that I have a <br />solid knoxledge of vegetation and xater requirements for vegetation, <br />Mr, Steve Spaulding of the State Forest Service answered <br />my call and said that he had a great deal of experience working; <br />with revegetatlon in the Plkee Peak region, Mr, Spaulding <br />sugges0ed that due to the hatselconditlons that exist with <br />predodnately south facing slopes ouch as this site, trees <br />should be planted on th• average of 8 feet apart, This xould <br />allow for the natural die off that xould occur after the <br />reclaiaed area la no longer maintained by the mining company, <br />With an 8' average spacing, this xould equal approximately <br />676 trees per acre, The front portion of the benches x111 not <br />support trees so the number of trees/acre x111 be reduced by <br />perhaps two-thirds xhich xould be 450 trees/acre, If there are <br />450 trees "established" per acre when the bond is released, <br />Mr, Spaulding said that we could expect that only about lO~-20g~ <br />of the trees xould live to oaturit~, say 25 to 50 yearn, Malty of <br />the trees there today are 200 to 300 years old, Therefore, <br />of the 450 trees/acre only about 45 to 90 Trill still be alive <br />25 to $0 years after the bord is released, Mr, Heffner stated <br />that now there are nppsoxiie.tely 70 to 80 trees/acre, <br />If the recommendations of the State Forest Service are nos: <br />followed and a leaser number of trees are planted, say 150 to ;100 <br />trees/acre, than the use of one gallon trees instead of 12" <br />seedlings should be implemented, One gallon trees 4ave a roott~ell <br />that is at least 800 larger thm a seedling (231 cubic in, <br />versus 28 cubic in, for a seedling), One gallon trees xould <br />