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a good cover of wheat, orchard, brome,and rye grasses. Yellow sweet clover was especially abundant <br /> throughout the site, as it is elsewhere in western Colorado this year. <br /> Weeds were rare on the 2006 reclamation(the majority of the site)with only a few thistle. A thistle <br /> infestation is developing in a small area of near the entrance gate. The operator will need to spray this <br /> area if this area was disturbed by the mining operation. <br /> Technical Revision 15 was approved in January 2008 allowing removal of the two ponds, with the <br /> stipulation that the operator first submit in a Minor Revision quantitative data that supports the USLE <br /> analysis provided in TR-15. The data are to be collected in Summer 2008. In anticipation of the submittal <br /> of these data, special attention was given during this inspection to visually estimating ground cover in <br /> disturbed areas. Live standing cover provided by vegetation (stems in contact with the ground and <br /> canopy)appeared to exceed 50%in all areas,except the Storage Yard Area which was estimated to exceed <br /> 30%. Vegetative litter,rock,and in-ground plant root mass appeared to provide at least an additional 20% <br /> of cover in all areas. There were a few areas of less than Y. acre where vegetative cover was either <br /> significantly less than or greater than 50%. <br /> Photo 1 - Thistle near entrance gate. <br /> 5 <br />