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<br />1. o os.?ECTIVEs <br /> <br />• A revegetatioa research program vas initiated at Atlantic Richfield <br />Company's Mount Gunnison Mice in the fall of 1977. This research is being <br />conducted to determine methods to successfully revegetate coal refuse dis- <br />posal areas resulting from a coal preparatory plant that will be located at <br />the mice site. This research has been designed to aasver the folloving <br />questions: <br />1) Does the renlacemeat of soil materials on coal refuse signi- <br />ficantly affect reclamation success? <br />2) Does one grass seed mixture (or shrub species) have sigaifi- <br />caatly greater success than another? If so, vbat planting <br />conditions contribute to this difference? <br />3) Is one grass needing (or shrub planting) method significantly <br />bettez than another? If so, chat eonditi~rns are responsible <br />for this difference? <br />4) Do soil sad refuse material temperature and moisture regimes <br />• vary significantly due to soil material placement or seeding <br />method? If so, is germ~*+Ation and seedling establishment di- <br />redly affected? <br />5) Can 2:1 slopes be successfully stabilized using revegetation <br />- methods proposed in Atlantic Bichfield Company's mining sad <br />reclamation plea for the Mount Guaaisaa Mine? <br />Ia conjunction with this program a sedimentation study vas <br />initiated to evaluate the erosion control efficiency of various revegetatioa <br />treatmeate. <br /> <br />1 <br />