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Moderate to large patches of houndstongue were also treated throughout the Moffat area <br />over the course of both treatment visits. Light to moderate infestations were treated along <br />the roadway from just south of the mine entrance extending to the intersection with the <br />road leading to the lower Moffat areas. The heaviest houndstongue populations were <br />treated immediately east of the pond. More moderate infestations were treated on <br />hillsides on the eastern side of the roadway, extending two to three hundred yards into the <br />reclamation. <br />Several small patches of perennial pepperweed and several moderate patches of whitetop <br />were treated in the Moffat area. The pepperweed was generally located in close proximity <br />to the upper road. The whitetop patches were found primarily to the south of the three <br />main drainages, extending to south facing hillside perpendicular to the roadway. <br />West Ridge <br />Infestations of Canada thistle, musk thistle and houndstongue were found to be <br />considerable smaller and less dense throughout the West Ridge area. Moderate <br />infestations of musk thistle and houndstongue were located and treated with backpack <br />sprayers on hillsides adjacent to and dams connecting the series of ponds along the <br />eastern West Ridge boundary. Small and dispersed patches of Canada thistle and <br />houndstongue were also treated in close proximity to the western West Ridge boundary, <br />mostly located within 100 yards of the fence line. <br />Several moderate to large infestations of whitetop were treated in the West Ridge area. <br />Moderate populations were located predominantly on hillsides adjacent to the series of <br />ponds and near the intersection of the main road with the road that follows the <br />creek/fenceline at the mine's western boundary. <br />A very large whitetop infestation in the West Ridge area was treated over the course of <br />two days during the June application. The infestation, occupying most of the vegetated <br />area between three reclamation benches on the west side of the main roadway nearing the <br />2010 Edna Mine Weed Management Report 3 8/30/2010