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<br />Greasewood Shrubland, Shadscale Shrubland and Juniper Woodland. <br />The Greasewood Shrubland vegetation type occurs on the flat terrain <br />along the tributaries to East Salt Creek. Greasewood is the domi- <br />nant shrub and is known to accumulate salts in its leaves. When <br />the leaves drop to the ground, salt accumulates in the soil. Acc- <br />ordingly, plants growing in the greasewood shrublands are often <br />saline tolerant. Common shrubs are big sagebrush, seepweed, rubber <br />rabbitbrush, fourwing saltbrush, shadscale saltbrush and broom snake- <br />week. Graminoids are cheatgrass, tall wheatgrass, western wheatgrass, <br />Sandberg bluegrass, crested wheatgrass, basin wildrye, Salina wild- <br />rye, Indian ricegrass, squirreltail and sand dropseed. Forb cover <br />is low, but is represented by tansy-mustard and tumble-mustard. <br />Juniper woodland occurs on steep, north and west facing slopes and <br />the ridgetops. Utah juniper is the dominant tree species, with pin- <br />yon pine also common to a lesser degree. Major graminoids are Salina <br />wildrye, Indian ricegrass, mutton bluegrass, cheatgrass and Sandberg <br />bluegrass. Shrub cover is relatively sparse and includes mountain <br />mahogony, Gambel oak, Utah serviceberry, big sagebrush and mountain <br />pepperweed. Forbs are relatively infrequent and include timber milk- <br />vetch, northern sweetvetch, tumble-mustard and goldenrod. <br />There are no endangered or threatened species of vegetation known to <br />occur in the proposed exploration area 1 <br />6. EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES <br />The method of exploration will be rotary drilling with coring through <br />significant coal seams, logging and sampling of cuttings and core, <br />and geophysical logging of the drill holes. <br />1 <br />U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Ptanagement, West <br />Central Colorado Coal Environmental Statement, Vo1.2, "Sheri3an <br />Enterprises: Loma Project", p. 931. <br />