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• characteristic landscape. Spoila dumped over escarp: .:nts <br />would produce barren talus slopes; choir vertical tri- <br />angular form would be foreign to ti,e horizontnlly- <br />oriented rectangular form of rocl; ledges (sec Fig. cI.I-1, <br />Nld Colo. Coal Regional ~nvironmcntal Statement). <br />Cuts and fills on roads and rights-oE-way character- <br />istically produce half-moon shaped scars foreign [o a_1 <br />' but adjacent rimrock escarpments. t~~hen viewed parallel <br />to their alignment, their sharply ar.~ular contact wit:: <br />natural terrain fails to borrow fror,, the adjacent rol_-_ng <br />landscape. <br />Stream rechanneling could produce strong line dominance <br />that does not complement curving lines of hillsides a-3 <br />meanders. Silhouettes produced by spoil piles, tr~n=_- <br />mission lines, draglines, and vegetation clearings also <br />J characteristically exhibit angular lines that are inc~n- <br />~ grvous in natural landscapes. <br />Large mined-over areas would result in color variatic-s, <br />such as light-colored mineral soils, that draw attention <br />to the mining operation. The coal visible in the active <br />pit and barren cut-and-fill slopes would also produce <br />color deviations from she characteristic landscape. <br />Changes in [lie vegetative eomple:c in reclamation opera- <br />tions could create hues markedly different from the <br />131 <br />{ • <br />.~ <br />... ..... ... ~R--n...a.~~--A..~ <br />