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DRMS Permit Index
Permit No
C1981008
IBM Index Class Name
REVISION
Doc Date
7/29/2010
Doc Name
Response to Adequacy Review No. 3 (Response to Morgan Property Issues)
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Western Fuels Colorado
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PR6
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SB1
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used for production of adapted crops for harvest grasses or legumes included <br />but not limited to row crops, small grains, HAY, orchards, or grasses raised <br />for PRODUCTION. There are VERY FEW irrigated pasturelands in NH2. <br />Most all of these farms were irrigated cropland. Here is the problem and <br />compliance with rules 1.04. Whenever WFC applied for a permit for NH2, <br />they must at that time do a pre-mine land uses inspection and classify ALL <br />of these areas according to the choices given to them in 1.04. Those choices <br />were and still are (a) cropland (b) pastureland rangeland , these are the only <br />ones that apply. These choices along with their definitions should have been <br />used to EXACTLY what they say they mean and are. They violated all of this <br />and since then, so has the State Words irrigate has been added to them <br />words like management has been added, soil depths, etc. This is ALL wrong. <br />Here is how we do it. All of NH2 within the permit area, Morgans, Johnsons, <br />San Miguel Power, Staats, Martins, Bensons, Garveys, Burbridges., etc. All <br />of these farms should have been classified immediately as cropland by <br />definition. All of these farmers had crops used for harvest and production <br />and it did not matter if it was grass, grass/ alfalfa/ alfalfa. Oat hay, none of <br />this mattered or matters. Cropland does not have to be prime farm land. <br />Prime farmland must be cropland but not vice versa. Some farms are <br />dryland that are cropland. These farmers all got 2 and 3 cuttings of <br />HARVEST EVERY year. All of these farms had the mechanical means for <br />their harvest and their lands were all harvested along with irrigation, <br />fertilization, tilling. etc. Their ENTIRE properties may not have been used for <br />FULL production as ours, but the land was used to produce hay for their <br />cattle and sheep and it was something that was done EVERY YEAR not <br />occassionally. Some place had some pasture but most of them were hayed <br />every year. Small pastures for a few head of horses or a dairy cow or two or a <br />few goats might have existed on their properties, but they were consistantly <br />hayed for harvest and production. -The farmers in the spring moved the <br />livestock off, irrigated, fertilized, and harvested as many cuttings as the <br />property would allow 2, 3 and sometimes we got 4. The livestock would <br />return in the fall and the grazing would begin again until snow flew and then <br />feeding what they had produced would begin. All of this classifications <br />should have been very simple and if the farmers had been asked and given <br />the PROPER definition and asked which applied to them, they would have <br />been told WFC and the STATE at that time and this would never be <br />happening now. WFC is trying every way possible to put down the farmer <br />and the farms that they have worked so hard to keep. This in itself should <br />be a violation of all Federal and State laws under Protecting the landowner <br />and his rights. <br />WFC Response: <br />PR 06 calls for treating the Morgan Property as Prime Farmland and observing <br />all applicable soil salvage requirements, as well as reclaiming the property as
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