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~ • • <br />I <br />I SOARING EAGLE GRAVEL PIT <br />VEGETATION ASSOCIATIONS <br />INTRODUCTION <br />I In accordance with the request of Grand Junction Pipe and Supply Company (Grand Junction <br />I Pipe) of Grand Junction, Colorado, WestWater Engineering has mapped the vegetation <br />associations present at a 120 t acre site located on the Soaring Eagle Ranch near Fruita, <br />I Colorado(~-igere-F}~~~~yi~3ri t3~ <br />I PU1tPOSE <br />I Graad Junction Pipe proposes to develop a gravel pit at the subject site and has requested the <br />vegetation mapping as part of the baseline existing conditions information necessary to obtain a <br />I mining permit from the Colorado State Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG). <br />I METHODS <br />I WestWater's environmental scientists have mapped the existing vegetation at the site by first <br />I identifying vegetation associations present at the site. A vegetation association is a recognizable <br />assemblage of plant species that occurs together on the landscape. The association naming <br />conventions used here are in accordance with those applied by the Colorado Natural Heritage <br />Program, except common names have been used rather than scientific names. <br />I <br />~ I Vegetation Associations are named for the most prominent species observed within each <br />I vegetation stratum (trees, shrubs and herbs). For the purposes of this investigation, the term <br />prominent is considered synonymous with the word dominant. If an individual stratum is judged <br />I not to be a significant component of an association, no species of the stratum is listed. IC an <br />individual species of a stratum is judged not to be a significant component of the stratum, the <br />' species is not included in the stratum description. Up to 3 species from each stratum arc <br />~1 <br />I <br />