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1 <br />~' <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />' Trinidad Basin Mining is currently operating a surface coal mine on a <br />1,180 acre permit area located in Delagua Canyon about 19 miles north- <br />' rest of Trinidad in Cas Animas County, Colorado. Trinidad Basin Mining <br />began operations in August 1980 in this historic mining area and at a <br />mine site that had been previously worked by other mining companies. <br />A total of about 332 acres of landscape will have been temporarily <br />disturbed when all mining operations terminate. <br />' The objective of this vegetation study was to address stipulations of <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation ICMLR). The first stipulation called <br />for the submission of a plan for sampling of the vegetation types and <br />the establishrt~ent of reference areas. The second_tipulation called <br />for implementation of the sample plan, analysis of the data, and sub- <br />mission of a report. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />-1- <br />1 <br />