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Page - 2 . ,.~ Seed mix Crested Wheatgrass - Agropyron desertorum Intermediate Wheatgrass - Agropyron intermedium Streambank wheatgrass - Agropyron riparium Blue Grama - Bouteloua gracillis Sand Dropseed - Sporobolus cryptandrus Basin Wild Rye - Elymus cinersus Cicer Milkvetch - Coronilla varia Seeding rate - 4011(Acre Yellow Sweet Clover - Melilotus officinates Seeding rate - Sli/Acre Fertilizer Site A Nitrogen - 12011/Acre Sites B and C Nitrogen - 120 I1/Acre Phosphorus - 60 if/Acre Potassium - 60 I1/Acre Phase III (Maintenance) All first year seedlings were watered as necessary from tanks placed on top of the sites or from a tank which is hauled in a pickup. From late July the weather was very dry with only infrequent and unmeasurable precipitation. Watering was done as often as possible but the seedling survival rates are not very high this year due to the stress during the critical growing period. Overview The older reclamation sites at the quarry are looking good. Some fill in planting was done this year but not as extensively as in previous years. Shrub and tree establishment on the sites has been achieved and a grass stand is taking hold although the grasses are not as dense as I would like to see them. This year we changed to a new seed mixture which contains more sod grasses and a different legume species. It is hoped that this mixture will produce a much denser stand but it will not be possible to evaluate it for at least 2 years. Fertilizer rates were also increased this year and should help produce a good grass stand. The sites that were seeded and mulched earlier this summer (sites B and C) have annual grasses from the seed in the mulch growing on them at this time. Seedling survival rates this year are down from last year averaging only 45% for the shrubs. It should be noted that the 2 year old bare root fourwinged saltbush showed excellent growth and an 85°l, survival rate. Mountain Snow- berry, Rocky Mountain Thimbleberry and Squaw Currant also did well each hav- ing a survival rate over 606. The long dry spell between early May and late July was probably the biggest single factor contributing to the low survi- val rates as the previously mentioned bare root fourwinged saltbushes were planted during April and received ample early moisture. The other seedlings were not planted until June and did not receive significant rainfall until late July.