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<br /> <br /> <br />Riley Gravel Pit <br />Exhibit D <br />S~ <br />WILDLIFE, WATER RESOURCES, VEGETATION AND SOILS INFORPIATION <br />h`Ii,DLIFE <br />Deer, elk and a small variety of non-game species, raptors and rodents. <br />Songbirds, cottontail rabbits, jackrabbits and coyote. <br />WATER RESOURCES <br />Approximately 300 feet from the nearest live stream which is Owl Creek. <br />No surface or ground water present. <br />VEGETATION <br />Mountain Loam Range Site (BufFmeyer Sandy Loam) - Potential native vegetation <br />found on the Mountain Loam Range Site in Jacls on Coun[y is as follows: <br />Common Plant Name Percentage <br />Grasses <br />Idaho Fescue 15 <br />4lestern bJh eatgrass 15 <br />Thurber fescue 8 <br />Junegrass 7 <br />Native Bromes 5 <br />Slender IJh eatgrass 5 <br />Needle grasses S <br />Other 2 <br />Forbs <br />Yarrow 2 <br />Buck~ohcat 2 <br />Penstemon 2 <br />Other 5 <br />Shrubs <br />big sagebrush 10 <br />Serviceberry 5 <br />Rose 3 <br />Shrubby cinquefoil 3 <br />Snowberry 2 <br />Low rabbitbrush 2 <br />Other 2 <br />Potential Annual Production (lbs./Ac. Dry Wt.): (Mountain Loam Range Site) <br />The estimated total annual production of air-dry vegetation is 1200 lbs. <br />per acre in poor years and 1800 lbs. per acre in good years. About 800 to <br />1'_'00 lbs. respectively of this production provides forage for livestock. <br />SOILS INFORMATION (see attached soils map) <br />Soils are fairly deep, have a good water holding capacity, are moderately <br />fine to moderately coarse textured and many of them are somewhat gravelly <br />