PERMFILE117068

• Permit No: M1977424
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 8/13/1981
• Doc Name: Revised Recl Plan w/ltr frm SGR attc
• From: Occidental Oil Shale Inc.
• To: MLRD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Grasses: Sharp Bros. Seed Co., Healy, Kansas and Northrup King and Co.,
Longmont, Colorado.
Forbes: North plant Seed Producers, Moscow, Idaho.
Shrubs: Native Plants, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The two naturalized species, crested and intermediate wheatgrass, are
commercially available.
NOTE: This species mixture was developed from recommendations from "Restoring
Big Game Range in Utah", A. P. Plummer; also results from "Surface Re-
habilitation of Land Disturbances resulting from Oil Shale Development",
C.S.U. Report 1974 recommendations of Clyde George, local S.C.S. agent,
and extensive research at Parachute Creek, Logan Wash, and Piceance
Creek.
Straw will be used as a mulch and crimped in at the rate of two tons per
acre.
These two benches are expected to have a productivity that will exceed
the original 30 acres of disturbed land.
The slopes on Area #1 cover an area of 20 acres. Topsoil will not be
added. Due to the steepness, any added topsoil would move downward due to
gravity. Biological islands will be created by transplanting tubelings of
shrubs. Shrub, forb, and grass species to be planted on the biological
islands are:
Shrubs:
Pershia tridentata (antelope bitterbrush)
Quercus gambe lii (scrub oak)
Pinus edu us pinyon pine)
unip~ erus osteosperma (one-seed juniper)
Forbs:
Hedysarum boreole - (Utah sweet vetch)
Penstemon pa mere (Palmer penstemon)
Sphaeralcea sp. Globe mallow)
Me i otus officinalis (yellow sweet clover}
Linum ewisii Lewis flax)
Grasses:
Agropyron dasystachyum - (thick spike wheatgrass)
A. es~ ertorum - nordan (crested wheatgrass)
. ink termedium - Oahe (intermediate wheatgrass)
A. smith~i Western wheatgrass)
Transplant/Acre
100
100
100
100
TOTAL 400
Lbs/Acre
1
1
1/2
1/Z
1/2
1
2
1
3