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Land may appear barren because of man's aoctivities. When it may reasonably <br />• be inferred from the data source that the land will be returned to its former use, <br />it is not included in the Barren category but classified on the basis of its site and <br />situation. Agricultural land, for example, may be temporari{y without vegetative <br />cover because of cropping season or tillage practices. Similarly, industrial land may <br />have waste and tailing dumps, and areas of intensively managed forest land may have <br />clear-cut blocks evident. <br />When neither the former nor the future use can be discerned and the area is <br />obviously in a state of land use transition, iT is considered to be Barren Land, in <br />order to avoid inferential errors. <br />Level II categories of Barren Land are: Dry Salt Flats, Beaches, Sandy Areas <br />other than Beaches; Bare Exposed Rock; Strip Mines; Quarries, and Gravel Pits; <br />Transitional Areas; and Mixed Barren Land. <br />75. Strip Mines, Quarries, and Gravel Pits <br />Those extractive mining activities that have significant surface expression are <br />included in this category. Vegetative cover and overburden are removed to expose <br />• such deposits as coal, iron ore, limestone, and copper. Quarrying of building and <br />decorative stone and recovery of sand and gravel deposits also result in large open <br />surface pits. C urrent mining activity is not always distinguishable, and inactive, <br />unreclaimed, and active strip mines, quarries, borrow pits, and gravel pits are <br />included in this category until other cover or use has been established, after which <br />the land would be classified in accordance with the resulting use or cover. Unused <br />pits or quarries that have been flooded, however, are placed in the appropriate Water <br />category. <br />2.9.2.2 Mine Plan Area Land Use <br />The property owners of both surface and underground land within the mine plan <br />area can be found in the odjucatory section, 3.7. This section also explains the <br />adjacent land holdings. The individual residences and ranches adjacent to the mine <br />plan area are shown on exhibit 2.9-I, and The microwave station within the mine plan <br />area. Also shown on exhibit 2.9-I is the land use within the mine plan area; this is <br />rangeland, undeveloped land and mined land. Rangeland is the major land use with <br />• areas of undeveloped lands being rangeland returning to its natural state. Surface <br />Revised 7-81 2.9-12 <br />