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~ • • <br />EXHIBIT D- WILDLIFE, WATER RESOURCES, <br />VEGETATION AND SOILS INFORMATION <br />WILDLIFE a. Area is arid or semi-arid, Brackett <br />Creek being classified as an intermittent stream. The surrounding <br />land is principally used for grazing of livestock although it <br />supports few animals. No game of significance is noted and such <br />as there is lives in harmony with widely spaced human occupation. <br />Small rodents and insect life are noted on the site itself. <br />b. No special seasonal use is noted. <br />c. No threatened or endangered species <br />are noted. <br />d. Actual site activity will temporarily <br />destroy several acres of what is essentially desert and will <br />interefere with the small wildlife. Human activities will cause <br />some noise and increase vehicular traffic but this will be limited <br />to daytime hours. No migratory routes are known to traverse the <br />site. While long term in nature, this use is temporary and the <br />site will eventually return to nature. <br />WATER RESOURCES- <br />The affect on surface and groundwater <br />systems is expected to be minimal. The mining operation will be <br />above the bed of Brackett Creek which is intermittent. It will <br />not extend into the water table below which is the underflow of <br />Brackett Creek, a part of the Black Squirrel Creek aquifer. See <br />Lincoln-DeVore report pp. 7-11. Any use of water developed on the <br />iste will be non-consumptive. <br />VEGETATION- Existing vegetation is principally sparse ~ <br />desert grasses and small shrubs, limited somewhat by occasional <br />intense storms but more usual arid conditions. Replacement of <br />all but grasses seems impractible, but replacement of sandy loam ~- <br />topsoil and seeding of natural grasses is planned. <br />SOILS- See Lincoln-DeVore report pp. 4-6 and <br />appended dril ing logs <br />EXHIBIT E- RECLAMATION PLAN <br />Stockpiled sandy loam will b~ <br />disturbed areas after mining operations <br />same will be seeded to natural grasses. <br />minimized. Surface will resemble prior <br />initial lack of shrubs. Elevation will <br />20 feet in gentle slope Easterly toward <br />redistributed over <br />have moved on and the <br />Cut banks will be <br />conditions except for <br />be reduced by about <br />Brackett Creek. <br />