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.. Page - 4 • • <br />Shrub and tree seedlings were planted on this site to fill in for die off. <br />The best performing shrub is fourwing saltbush but the mountain mahogany is <br />doing well on the rockier areas. Ponderosa pine is the most outstanding <br />tree species followed by juniper and western red cedar. <br />Mulch was put on the upper part of the site and some wheat is now growing <br />there. This gives us hope that we will be able to establish a stand of <br />grass here in the near future. <br />Indian ricegrass invades fairly extensively on all parts of the site. Fring- <br />ed sage is also moving into the site. <br />Site B (Dump site Gillespie) <br />This is a current waste dump with planned reclamation to begin in 1984• <br />It was hoped that this site would be ready this year but a strike by the <br />miners delayed these plans. <br />Site H (Iron Hiil) <br />Currently a high wall area this site is to be bulldozed in later this year. <br />The main haul road will then run through the bottom of it and the sides will <br />be contured for planting. Reclamation work is scheduled to begin in the <br />spring of 1984. <br />OVERVIEW <br />A total of 818 shrub seedlings were planted in 1983 and it turned out to <br />be an excellent year for their survival. This liras due to the above average <br />rainfall and more importantly to the use of seed stock gathered at the <br />quarry. Overall survival rate was 77~ with a species breakdown as follows: <br />Mountain mahogany <br />Jamesia <br />Three-leaf sumac <br />Fourwing saltbush <br />Rocky Mountain thimbleberry <br />Fringed sage <br />Squaw currant <br />Cercocarpus montanus 100 <br />Jemesia americans 24$ <br />Rhus trilobata 47% <br />Atriplex canescens 83~ <br />Rubus deliciosus 85% <br />Artemisia frigida 100K <br />Ribes cereum 74,K <br />Jamesia was a new species tried this year and is not recommended for future <br />years. A possible subtitute would be mountain snowberry, Symphoricarpas <br />orephilus, which grows in relative abundance on the upper elevations of <br />the quarry. <br />The low percentage for three-leaf sumac is misleading as this is a good <br />species for the quarry. It's poor performance is attributed to poor seed- <br />ling hardiness because many of them lost their leaves during planting. I <br />recommend that this species be started earlier at the nursery than it was in <br />1982. <br />Fringed sage, mountain mahogany, Rocky Mountain thimbleberry, and squaw <br />currant are alI excellent species for this area. Their survival rate is <br />excellent and I would continue using all of these. <br />