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• EXHIBIT J • , <br />VEGETATION INFORMATION <br />No further destruction of vegetation on designated affected lands i'_s expected <br />to occur. Lands disturbed by Tailings Ponds No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 havf~ since <br />undergone initiation of natural succession. All major construction for the pur- <br />pose of Tailings Pond No. G has been completed. The present vegetation types <br />existing in and around the affected lands are:2 <br /> VEGETATION TYPES <br />Species Height <br />1. Understory - Willow <br />Willow 0-72" <br />Salix spp <br />Alpine bluegrass 0-12" <br />Poa alpina <br />• Mountain brome 0-12" <br />Bromus marginatus <br />Other 0-12" <br />2. Understory - Grasses <br />Slender wheatgrass 0-12" <br />Agropyron trachycanlum <br />Thickspike wheatgrass 0-12" <br />Agropyron dasystachyum <br />Timothy <br />• Phleum praterse 0-12" <br /> <br />Mountain brome 0-12" <br />Bronus marginatus <br />Alpine bluegrass 0-12" <br />Poa alpina <br />Alpine sage 0-12" <br />Artemesin spp <br />Fireweed 0-24" <br />Epilobium angustifolium <br />Shrubby cinquefoil 0-24" <br />Potentilla fruticosa <br />Other 0-24" <br />X Cover <br />90X <br />3% <br />2% <br />5% <br />15X <br />6X <br />SY. <br />20% <br />20% <br />20Y. <br />2z <br />zz <br />SX <br />-39- <br />