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iii iiiiiiiiiiiu iii gB~ STATE OF COLORADO Roy Romer, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF WILDLIFE 4N EOUeL OPPO HTU MTV EM PLOYEa Perry D Olson. Director 6060 Broatlway Denver, Coloratlo 60216 Telephone: 13031 297-t 192 REFER TO ' G~~~~O O 0'y OF'~ i For W11d(rje- r?QOIEii:L:ilOi~~'_~. :."~ For People Dan T. Mathews Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Co. 80203 Dct. 2, 1991 Dear Dan: I'm Sorry you were unable to be present at the meeting at the Senica mine but I understand changing of priorities. I spent most of the day touring the two mines. We walked a lot of the property that has already been reclaimed and spent a lot of time discussing goals for the area. I am not impressed with their success with reclaiming shrubs but they appear willing to continue to try to improve. At least they have tried a few things. The main item of discussion was how to improve on survival of shrubs. We talked a lot about shrub clump establishment by mature transplants and the Senica people agreed to look further into this technique. We also discussed strip plantings where some areas would be planted only with shrubs to reduce competition and hopefully increase shrub survival. We talked about grazing as a tool and looked at the area they are currently grazing and the preliminary results there. We talked about the Rotoclear machine and the early successes with that approach and they are going to try to meet with the people from P&M Coal Co. and see the machine in operation and evaluate that. We talked about selective use ^f herbicides, tillage with some kind of small machine or other experimental approaches to increasing shrub survival. We also talked about a more holostic approach to wildlife management with such techniques as brush piles, rock piles, water development, bird perches ect. and the possibilities of some reduction in stem density requirements if all parties involved might agree to a plan. I didn make any committments or promises other than to agree to work with them if they wanted to try to put together a proposal to you. My only objective was to try to get them thinking about a few other things. Give me a call if you have any questions regarding any of this. S' cerely, im Morri=_ DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Hamlet J. Barry, E>,ecutive Director WILDLIFE COMMISSION, William R. Hogberg, Chairman . Dennis Luttrell, Vice Chavman . EICon W. Cooper, Secretary Felix Chavez, Member . Rebecba L Frank Member . Louis F. Swik, Member . George VanDen Berg, Member . Larry M. Wright. Member