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STATE LAND - JENSEN PIT • <br />EXHIBIT D: WILDLIFE, WATER RESOURCES, VEGETATION, AND SOILS INFORMATION <br />1. WILDLIFE <br />Please see attached report from the Division of Wildlife. <br />2. IJATER RESOURCES <br />The area for which we are requesting <br />sideslopes and uplands adjacent to a <br />creek only flows during periods of h <br />should have no adverse effect on the <br />stop above ground water elevations. <br />or no effect on ground water. <br />a permit is located along the <br />dry creek drainage area. This <br />igh runoff and our operation <br />drainage. Our excavation will <br />Therefore, we should have little <br />3. VEGETATION <br />The following information was compiled from a range condition <br />inventory report furnished by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. <br />The area is a loamy plains range site, in fair range condition, with <br />sparse vegetative cover. <br />The following is a list of the present existing plant species and <br />their percent composition by air dry weight. <br />SPECIES °o COMPDSITION <br />Blue Grama 40 <br />Red Threeawn 5 <br />Fringed Sage 15 <br />Buffalograss 20 <br />Sand Dropseed 10 <br />Western Wheatgrass 5 <br />Cactus 3 <br />Threadleaf Sedge 2 <br />4. SOILS <br />This area is classified by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service as a <br />"Loamy Plains Range Site". It contains three different soil types: <br />An area of the raga series which consists of rago and kuma silt loams, <br />an area of the richfield series which is a richfield loam, and an <br />area of the wages series which is a wages gravelly loam. <br />