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State Site #; SRT160 <br />Temporary #: MM-51 i I <br />16. UTM Reference: <br />Management Data Form <br />(page 2 of 5) <br />A. 13; 328330 mE 4475350 mN <br />17. Address: Lot Block Addition <br />18. Location/Access: From the Twentymile Coal Mine entrance, drive north on County Highway 179 for <br />4'/, miles to Old Highway 179 and turn left. Then drive another 2.0 miles to an abandoned coal <br />mine and park. The site is located approximately 1'/. mile west upstream from the confluence <br />of a steep-sided drainage and Fish Creek on the south-facing toe of an easdwest ridge. <br />19. Topographic Feature(s): <br />_ mountain _ ledge _ playa <br />_ hill _ terrace/bench _ talus slope <br />_ tableland/mesa _ canyon _ alluvial fan <br />X ridge _ valley _ plain <br />_ saddle/pass _ basin _ dune <br />_ alcovelrockshelter _ floodplain _ <br />_ cliff _ cutbank _ <br />_ slope _ arroyo/gully _ <br />20. Describe on-site topography (mention named landforms): The site is located on the south-facing <br />slope at the toe of an east/west ridge that overlooks the confluence of two steep-sided drainages and their <br />confluence with Fish Creek to the east. <br />21. Site Elevation: 6680 feet=(x .3048) 2036 meters 22. Aspect: SE (138°) <br />23. Degree of slope on site: 2-11° 24. Soil Depth: Surface <br />25. Soil description (character and color): The soil is a thin light yellow brown sand with many gravels, <br />cobbles, and bedrock outcrops. <br />26. Depositional environment <br />X aeolian X residual colluvial <br />-alluvial none moraine <br />-other, specify: <br />27. Nearest water (name/nature): unnamed intermittent Distance 61 m (200 ft) <br />28. Nearest permanent water (name): Fish Creek Distance 610 m (2000 ft) <br />29. Vegetation on site (list predominant species): The vegetation on the site is a mixed <br />sagebrush/grassland community. Species include low sage, lupine, snakeweed, sulphur <br />flowers, and needle grass. <br />30. Vegetation associations/communities surrounding site: Same as on site, more riparian grasses and <br />sedges in the drainages. <br />