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United States Department of Agriculture <br />Natural Teller-Park CD Office <br />Resources Tamarac Business Center <br />?Ow? N Conservation 800 Research Dr., Suite 100 <br />Service Woodland Park, CO 80863 <br />Phone: (719) 686-9405 <br />Doug Keith, Admin. Manager <br />Park County Road & Bridge,Dept. <br />P. O. Box 147 <br />Fairplay, CO 80440 <br />Leon. Kot@co. usda.gov -? Fax: (719) 686-9403 <br />j s <br />August 21, 2009 <br />?,UG 27 <br />At your request I made a site visit yesterday to the Ansley Pit, Colo. Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety Perrmit No. M-1995-027 to assess the vegetation there for potential future <br />reclamation needs. My comments are as follows. <br />Canopy cover is good, about 40 percent basal area, and the site is dominated by prairie <br />junegrass, bottlebrush squirreltail, and to a lesser degree, the various species of rabbitbrush. <br />Other species present that I observed included: <br />Grasses <br />white tridens; very minor amounts of Western wheatgrass, annual bluegrass, & softbrome <br />Forbs <br />Riddells Groundsel <br />Western yarrow <br />Broom snakeweed <br />Common ragwort <br />birdsrape mustard <br />tansy mustard <br />hairy gold aster <br />lambsquarter <br />herbaceous cinquefoil/Sulfur cinquefoil <br />Platte thistle <br />wooly plantain <br />buckwheat/sorrel <br />Bigelow aster <br />Western sticktight <br />Indian paintbrush <br />Rocky Mtn penstemon <br />Woody plants <br />Fringed sage <br />Since both the co-dominant grasses on the site Ounegrass and squirreltail) are more of a <br />pioneering type of species that occupy the middle part of seral stages, recommend that when <br />The Natural Resources Conservation Service works hand-in-hand with USDA NRCS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY <br />the American people to conserve natural resources on private lands. PROVIDER AND EMPLOYER