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Reference items in PDF file: <br />Item 5. Location Information: (only allows one section to be entered) <br />Sections 02, 10, and 11 are involved. <br />Item 7F. Plan of Operations was filed with the U.S. F. S. on 20 May 2009 and is pending <br />action. <br />Project Description Item 3: (only allows entry of characters.) <br />Maximum of 13,000 cubic yards will be moved and replaced. About 400 - 500 pounds of <br />material will be extracted. Less than 1 acre will be disturbed. <br />IV. OPERATION AND RECLAMATION MEASURES: <br />2. Provide a description of the native vegetation of the area to be disturbed, including <br />tree, shrub, and grass communities of the area. Color photographs, sufficient to <br />adequately represent the ecology of the site and adequately labeled (including date, <br />orientation and location), may be used in lieu of a written description. Based on the <br />quality of the photographs, the Division may require additional detail. <br />General: All sites are located on previous dig sites with varying degrees of disturbance. <br />These sites were chosen because they reveal the presence of pegmatite structures. <br />Sites 001, 002, and 003 on Silver Microcline Claim experienced very little fire damage <br />during the Hayman fire and are only slightly disturbed by previous digging. The <br />vegetation is scattered, mature ponderosa pine, mountain mahogany, and a few wax <br />currant. The primary grasses are bunch grasses. Additionally, some kinnikinick is <br />scattered throughout the pine understory. <br />Site 004 on the Three Point Claim is a previously heavily disturbed area. Primary <br />vegetation includes a couple small ponderosa pine, some mountain mahogany, and bunch <br />grasses. There are a few yucca becoming established in the old digs, and on the fringe <br />near the draw, a few aspen are recovering from the Hayman fire. The adjacent area was <br />burned. Insufficient vegetation and the disturbance created a partial fire barrier to <br />vegetation to the west. <br />Site 005 on the Silver Microcline is just west of a previous prospect on the Blue Smoky <br />Mine. About half of the timber is fire killed. The timber lower in the draw (off the dig <br />site) is relatively undamaged. Vegetation consists of aspens, Douglas fir, and ponderosa <br />pine. Some kinnikinick is interspersed amongst bunch grasses.