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1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />r <br />Phase III because of topsoil similarities between the two areas. <br />This stoc4;pile will be stgred for about 9 years and therefore <br />will be seeded with native grasses to provide a protective cover <br />and additional viable seed source when used in the third phase <br />reclamation effort. Annual rye will be used as an erosion <br />inhibitor and cover crap at time of placement. Stockpiles will <br />be about ib feet high over three acres with slopes of ~:1 <br />maximum. The gravel verburden)>mined out of Phae I's trench <br />--~ ~_ <br />one during the initial cut `{_~bout_._10~~,000 cu yd) will be <br />stoc4::piled at the northend of trench 1 near the processing plant. <br />Very few of the e;;isting trees are of commercial quality as <br />saw logs, however, all trees with dbh's greater than 4 inches <br />will be felled, bucV::ed, and sold as fire wood. Trees smaller <br />than 4 inches in dbh will be dozer raked into piles and burned. <br />When plant-growth medium like that from soil map unit GO is <br />used for topsoiling it will be screened so that the rock: greater', <br />than two inches is removed. The material will then be placed in <br />b inch lifts over the area to be reclaimedVand randomly sampled <br />and analyzed to determine fertilizer or other soil amendmentL' <br />requirements. This will be the process used throughout the <br />miningireclamation phases regardless of whether plant-growth <br />medium or actual topsoil is being replaced. In the case of <br />reclaiming trenches in F'hase I~the plant growth medium will be <br />placed in b inch lifts to a final depth of 1 foot over trenches, <br />1,'~, and 4 end in trenches and v native topsoil will be placed~i <br />~~1 foo± deep. l-his topsoil will have to come from the topsoil <br />~_ .- <br />stocl::pile becai.tse trenches _ and 4 will not have topsoil <br />11 <br />