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This report has been prepared under contract by TACA Corporation. TACA <br />• Corporation is an independent Denver-based consulting firm specializing in resource <br />inventories, environmental planning, and reclamation. Principal author of this <br />report is Thomas A. Colbert, Certified Professional Scil Scientist. Mr. Colbert <br />was educated in agronomy at Colorado State University and at Texas A~iM <br />University. He is a former seasonal employee of the U.S. Forest Service, and <br />for several years was a research technician in mined land reclamation for the <br />C.S.U. Agronomy Department. He later served as a reclamation specialist <br />with the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, before going into private <br />business. Since 1979, Mr. Colbert has been head of his own consulting firm <br />which in 1980 was incorporated under the name TACA Corporation, and has <br />been active with clients in both the uranium and coal industries. <br />• TACA Corporation subscribes to and conducts business according to the profes- <br /> sional standards and Code of Ethics of ARCPACS, the American Registry of <br />Certified Professionals in Agronomy, Crops, and Soils, anon-profit organization. <br />The field survey work was supervised by Rodney E. Preator, with assistance <br />by the author. Formerly with the S.C.S., Mr. Preator has thirty years' experi- <br />ence as a soil scientist and surveyor, and now consults independently out of <br />Grand Junction, Colorado. <br />MAP UNIT DESCRIPTIONS <br />The following descriptions are for the soils encountered in the project area. <br />2 E -Buckskin loam, 12 to 25 percent slopes. <br />r 2 F - Buckskin loam, 25 to 65 percent slopes. <br />~~` • This is a deep, well-drained soil on strongly sloping to moderately steep mountain <br />- sideslopes at elevations of 6,900 to 7,900 feet. It formed in mixed colluvium <br />. s-ai II.I-lo <br />