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• Introduction <br />At the request of Mr. George Patterson of the Ken Coal Company (Kerr), Phase II and Phase III <br />bond release revegetation sampling was conducted during the summer of 2005 on various <br />reclaimed areas and corresponding reference areas located at the Ken Coal Company -Man <br />Mine located approximately eight miles east of Walden, Jackson County, Colorado. <br />Phase III revegetation monitoring at the mine site was conducted on the Pre-1986 Reclamation <br />Block which according to the 2004 Annual Reclamation Report Map, contains a total of <br />109.8768 acres and is located near the north-central portion of the main mine area and in four <br />smaller pieces located to the east of the existing mine access mad. For the 1995 Reclamation <br />Block there is a total of 175.4506 acres of reclamation located in these three blocks. The main <br />block is located at the southern end of the mine area and two smaller blocks, one located north of <br />Jackson County Road # 29 on the south edge of Bush Draw and a small strip located on the east <br />side of the mine access road, just to the west of the old mine office building. The 1996 <br />Reclamation Block contains a total of 57.8768 acres and is located in a single large block on the <br />northern edge of the old mine area, immediately to the south of Jackson County Road # 29 and <br />to the west of the mine access road. The Big Sagebrush and Alkali Sagebrush Reference Areas <br />as shown on Map 18, Kerr Mine Area Vegetation Map were also sampled. <br />Phase II revegetation sampling was conducted on the 1999 mine site reclamation and at the Ken <br />Tipple. At the Man: Mine site the 1999 Reclamation Block consists of two areas located to the <br />• east and southeast of the old mine office building containing a total of 8.2935 acres. At the Ken <br />Tipple, there is a total of 3.7035 acres of 1999 reclamation that was sampled. The Big <br />Sagebrush and Alkali Sagebrush Reference Areas were used as the calculated revegetation <br />standazd for the 1994 mine site reclamation and the Kerr Tipple Reference area shown on Permit <br />Map 19, Kerr Tipple Area Vegetation Map was sampled to compare the revegetation success for <br />the tipple reclamation. <br />The locations of theses specific reclamation blocks aze depicted on the Ken Coal Company's <br />Annual Reclamation Report Maps and are reproduced on the enclosed vegetation transact <br />tocation maps. This revegetation monitoring effort was prepared with the intention of satisfying <br />the initial revegetation monitoring requirements for Phase lI bond release and the first yeaz of the <br />final two years of the Phase III monitoring requirement. <br />Mr. Kent Crofts of Ilv1E, who has conducted numerous previous vegetation sampling efforts at <br />the Man Mine, and numerous other mine sites in northwest Colorado in the past 28 years, <br />directly supervised all field investigations. Assisting in this sampling effort was Mr. Aaron <br />Halling, who acted as the field party chief and field GPS technician and was responsible for <br />determining all of the transact locations using the Trimble Model Pm XRS Global Positioning <br />System. Both individuals performed all of the field sampling and data analysis. Assisting as <br />field technicians in the vegetation sampling were Mr. Jordan Davidson and Ms. Loraine Crofts. <br />• <br />