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• A review of information contained in the SCS Montrose County Soil Survey and Peabody <br />Attachment 9-5 was made to determine the appropriate range sites applicable to the study <br />area in order to determine the potential plant communities in the farmstead, facilities, orchards, <br />etc. type. One range site, Semidesert Loam, and one woodland site, Pinyon-Juniper <br />Woodland, apply to the New Horizon 2 study area for these areas., The reviewer is directed to <br />Map 2.04.9-1 "Soil Types and Topsoil Salvage Depth" and Peabody Attachment 9-5 contained <br />in Tab 9 as support for this discussion. Both the Pinyon-Juniper Site Description and the <br />Semidesert Loam Range Site are included in Peabody Appendix 10-3. <br />Results and Discussion -1999 <br />Venetation Distribution and Floristics - 1999. Vegetation types were determined on the <br />basis of plant composition and land use. Six vegetation types were recognized in the New <br />Horizon 2 baseline vegetation studies permit expansion area: sagebrush-1 (SG-1 ), sagebrush- <br />2 (SG-2) swale/drainage (SW), irrigated pasture (IP), irrigated hayland (IH), and miscellaneous <br />types. Farmsteads, facilities (corrals, stockyards, haystacks), orchards, ponds, roads and <br />other (abandoned cropland, hayland and pastures, abandoned buildings, etc.), were included <br />• in the miscellaneous category. The distribution of each type is shown on Map 2.04.10-1. The <br />total acreage of each type in the study area and proposed permit area is shown in Table <br />2.04.10-14. <br />The plant list resulting from the floristic surveys conducted with the study area was presented <br />in Peabody Appendix 10-1. It is reproduced and annotated as necessary as Appendix 2.04.10- <br />1 for the amended area. The list is arranged in alphabetical order and contains approximately <br />150 species of plants. Species are identified according to scientific name and common. <br />Scientific names in parenthesis are the most current accepted nomenclature using ITIS <br />(Integrated Taxonomic Information System <br />http://www. itis. usda.gov/pla ntproj/itis/itis_query, htm I ) <br />The search of the Colorado Natural Areas Inventory data base indicated that no data are <br />available for the locality in which the study area occurs with the nearest site being established <br />in 1997 on the San Miguel river near Tabeguache Creek. The CDMG list, NRCS PLANTS <br />• (REVISED 9/99) 2.04.10 - 54 <br />