_REPORT - C1981028 ‎(4)‎

• Permit No: C1981028
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Name: 1988 EVALUATION OF ESTABLISHING VEGETATION
• Annual Report Year: 1988
• Permit Index Doc Type: REVEG MONITORING REPORT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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eliminated by selective herbicides . This issue becomes
important when a diverse plant community of grasses , forbs ,
and shrubs is the objective. Bush morning-glory, Nuttalls
evolvulus , Snowball sand verbena, Mentzelia , Texas croton,
Rocky Mountain beeplant, Nuttalls evening-primrose, Bigelow
aster and other native species would be lost if herbicides
were used following planting.
2 . 4 Seeding equipment
It cannot be emphasized strongly enough to insist
on the use cfa specially designed and built rangeland
drill that is equipped to handle light, fluffy seeds as
well as small , smooth seeds . The drill should have double
disk furrow openers , depth control flanges , and packer wheels .
After going to the expense of earth moving, back filling,
grading, topsoil placement, seedbed preparation, cover
crop establishment and fertilizing it is defeating to resort
to the use of a drill incapable of proper seed placement
in the soil .
3 . 0 Evaluation of species
The 1988 sampling reveals the performance and
adaptability of several of the plant species used in
seedings (Tables , 1 , 2 & 3 ) . The goal of reclamation seedings
is toward the establishment of a lasting plant cover with
capabilities of regeneration of a plant community reasonably
matching the native vegetation of the region. In the case of
the Keenesburg Mine , the native vegetation is that of the