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VEGETATION INFORMATION EXHIBIT J <br />The vegetation community on the entire permit area is poorly vegetated dry rangeland. As seen <br />in the photos below, the permit area has very little vegetation. It is estimated that drought <br />resistant grasses have a ground cover of between 3% and 5% with small shrubs covering <br />approximately 2 %. As seen in the photos, little to no topsoil is available for salvage, so excess <br />fines from the operation will have additives such as fertilizer in order to make them suable <br />soils Ior reclamation numoses to ensure successful reclamation The primary woody plant <br />vegetation on site are yucca rabbit brush and sa ,e There ar • some tnnruisk within the <br />drainaees which exist on site the vegetation tin site has an average hcirht I'rou hh li to 13 <br />inches and rooides roughly 65% total ground cover. add ....... 1_ ai d. - <br />drainages % hi e h . <br />+All vegetation communities can be seen on Map C -I Pre - Mining Plan Map. Below are several <br />pictures which show the vegetation communities in the proximity of the permit area. <br />Approximately 0.5 acres of the permit area was mined before 1977 and no topsoil was salvaged <br />from this activity. Current vegetation in this area is very poor. <br />Picture 1: Typical Ground cover of poorly vegetated dry rangeland (looking north from near the <br />north side of the existing pit). <br />Picture 2: Previous mining area south of the existing pit now reclaimed as dry rangeland. <br />Korinek #1 Pit August 09 1 -1 <br />