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-5- • <br />E'CHIBIT A - LOCATION MAP <br />The Alabaster quarry is located approx. 1 mile from County Road 21 at the <br />entrance to the Munroe Ranch House. The access road to the site has been used his- <br />torically to a point approx. ; mile from the quarry,("K"). The remaining ;mile, ("F") <br />is fairly level and the trucks drive across the existing grass. Some grading has been <br />done to improve steeper areas and the dimensions of this area is approx. 12'wide x 300' <br />long. <br />Vegetation includes birchleaf mountain mahogany, blue grama, western wheatgrass, <br />sideoats grama, needleandthread, Indian ricegrass, yucca, fringed sage, and broom <br />snakeweed. In excellent condition the vegetation should also include big bluestem, <br />little bluestem, yellow indiangrass, Griffith's wheatgrass, and switchgrass. <br />The soil is about SS% Purner fine sandy loam and about 30% rock outcrop. The <br />Purner soils tend to be on the less steep areas. Included with this complex in map- <br />ping is about 1SYo areas of Kirtley soils. <br />The Purner series consists of shallow, well drained soils that formed in material <br />weathered from sandstone. In a typical soil profile the surface layer is reddish brown <br />fine sandy loam about 7 inches thick. The underlying material is light reddish brown <br />sandy loam about 7 inches thick. Below this is hard sandstone. <br />The rack outcrop in this mapping area is bare or nearly bare rock. Included <br />in the mapping unit are areas of shallow and very shallow soils, mainly around the <br />edges of the mapped areas. <br />There is a barbed wire fence running east 5. west approx. 50 ft. north of our <br />northern most boundery line.("J" on exhibit C map) <br />According to the Wildlife division, the wildlife species include the following; <br />Mule deer, elk, antelope, fox, bobcat, raccoon, badger, porcupine, rabbits, mourning <br />dove, and various raptors, rodents, reptiles, and songbirds. <br />