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0 <br />s 1 <br />• <br />lJ <br />Figure 2. Layout of aspen and serviceberry plantings at Seneca IIW south, June <br />2008. Aspen and serviceberry were planted and landscape fabric was placed the <br />previous fall. A native aspen stand is in the background, reclaimed coal surface mine in <br />the foreground. Left is the upper IIW south plot, right is the lower IIW south plot. <br />Figure 3. Aspen and other vegetation defoliated by grasshoppers at the Seneca <br />IIW north planting site. The plants did not survive and this plot was abandoned. <br />Nursery stock aspen (1- gallon size pot, 18 -24 inch trees) and serviceberry (10 <br />cubic inch Ray Leach supercells, 8.25 inch depth x 1.25 inch collar, 12 -18 inch tall plants) <br />were obtained from a commercial nursery using seed sources collected locally from the <br />Seneca mines (Personal communication, Randy Mandel, President Rocky Mountain <br />Native Plants, Rifle, CO). The nursery stock plants had already senesced and winter <br />hardened before planting during the first two weeks of November 2007. Topsoil had <br />been stored and placed on three of the sites over overburden during the summer of <br />11 <br />