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i • <br />.. <br />~,^I'.iT ','r. ui ~!1ji :':.M Y~/:'T6/YV1:~ _ '':\ vln~- `:Y 2%" <br />~.....~ ] ~.~.. .. :~. - ~.. iii-~~~ _ <br />DO-11BIT J -VEGETATION INFORMATION <br />The pit location is at approximately 9600 feet elevation and the unmined property has scopes <br />ranging from 2 to 7% sloping to the northeast. <br />Two vegetative types occur on this site. The open, sagebrush /grassland type and the lodgepole <br />pine type. This correlates directly with the soils mapped in the area. The lodgepole pine <br />community is found over the Troutville soils. The Sagebrush /grassland comrriunity is found over <br />the Pieuin soils. <br />The sagebrush !grassland type consists of approximately 40% big sagebrush, 30% Arizona <br />fescue, 15% mountain muhly, 5%Junegrass, 5% buckwheat, and traces of Elk sedge, <br />bottlebrush, squirreltail, and stonecrop. Ground cover is approximately 30%. <br />The lodgepole pine type consists of a relatively open stand of mixed age lodgepole pine. The <br />stand has been logged or thinned in the past creating small open areas and the mixed tree sizes. <br />The understory is very sparse under the pine and includes small amounts of Arizona fescue, <br />Mountain muhly, Junegrass, Elk sedge, buckwheat, kinnickinnick, common juniper (shrub), big <br />sagebrush, and showy cinquefoil. Ground cover is less than 5%. The plant cover increases <br />somewhat where the pines have been thinned. <br />Other plants found in the area, but not on the mine site includes rushes, tufted hairgrass, and <br />shrubby cinquefoil along the irrigation ditch south of the mine site. <br />Further vegetative information is located in section Exhibit E (Reclamation Plan). <br /> <br />r~ <br />• <br />