1990-11-15_REVISION - M1988112 ‎(3)‎

• Permit No: M1988112
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 11/15/1990
• Doc Name: REPORTS TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC HEARING VOLUME I APPLICATION OF BATTLE MENT PART 2
• Type & Sequence: AM1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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1 Mountain should respond to? This is another state
2 agency saying -- not maybe, but it should be.
3 UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: I will answer that
4 question. I haven't been sworn in, if that matters.
5 (Witness sworn.)
6 UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: The Division of
7 Wildlife (inaudible) native habitat. (Inaudible)
e community. Both of those are considered dryland
9 type of vegetation in the respect that's an area
l0 away from the stream bottom.
11 When someone says riparian vegetation,
12 they mean the type of vegetation that grows in an
13 area which is basically subirrigated. Cattails or
14 rushes, sedges, your willows, things that grow right
15 along the wet areas adjacent to creeks, or whatever.
16 So re-vegetating back to riparian
17 community would not be practical, in that we don't
18 have that wet condition in the areas that will be
19 reclaimed and it would not be successful.
20 In addition, I would also like to add,
21 that re-vegetation mixture that is specified fcr the
22 area does include two shrubs or at least one,
23 mountain mahogany, which is a native and a
24 semi-shrub, winterfat, which is good for livestock.
25 UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Is a four-strand
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