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III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />EXHIBIT D <br />11INING PLAN AND TI[,1ETABLE <br />History <br />George Sievers, grandfather of the present owners of Sievers <br />' Ranch, immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1880. In <br />1885 he came to the Roaring Fork Valley and acquired land four <br />' miles down river from Carbondale. The raw land was cleared, and <br />a four and one-half mile irrigation ditch was built with picks and <br />' shovels. The ranch became a successful operation producing <br />potatoes, hay, grain, and livestock. George Sievers remained active <br />1 in farming until his health failed in 1920. The farm was tenanted <br />' for many years. In 1952 George Sievers' daughter, Katherine Sievers <br />Holmes, and her husband, Harleigh Holmes Sr., formed Sievers Ranch & <br />' Development Company, a Colorado corporation. This family-owned <br />corporation has continued to the present time as a farming opera- <br />, tion raising grain, hay and cattle. Unlike most properties in <br />the Roaring Fork Valley, this ranch has been operated by the same <br />family for the past 94 years. <br />' The approximately 122.95 acres included in this conversion <br />and amendment is the northeastern part of the ranch. The total <br />' area of the ranch is approximately 625 acres. The northeastern <br />part of the ranch has extremely rocky soils and has been, at best, <br />very marginal grazing land. <br />1 In 1977 the family-owned Sievers Ranch & Development Company <br />filed for and obtained a limited impact permit (MLR file number <br />' 77-98, anniversary date May 1, 1978) on 8.74 acres at the far <br />- 5 - <br />