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r <br />* <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: File <br />FROM: R. Lance Wade <br />DATE: June 6, 2011 <br />RE: JoEllen Turner Complaint June 3, 2011 <br />I drove around 1" and 2 nd Parks yesterday afternoon (Sunday) to personally observe any haying <br />U p" u1,,.3,f5 Ui.,iib' lliii�li.l(,l�U Uy idifiiciS Nditfiin, or Ifl the vi%iriIL of, tiie N ew Horizon Mine Permit Area. <br />My observation was that not a single farmer had yet cut hay or cut off the water from their fields. In <br />general, it takes about two to three days for the ground to dry enough to cut hay after the water is <br />turned off, so the fact that no farmers have taken this step indicates to me that these farmers not only <br />did not intend to cut hay during the month of May, but do not intend to take their first cut until a period <br />of days or weeks, or more, from the present date. No hay is down in either park anywhere and will not <br />be for at least several days if everyone is still irrigating. <br />I observed the following status on the following properties, identified by landowner: Morgan — irrigating, <br />Richards — irrigating, Staats — irrigating, Smith — irrigating, Watson — irrigating, Tomlinson — irrigating, <br />Glasier I" Park — irrigating, Beiswanger — irrigating, Carver — irrigating, Naslund — irrigating, Chiles — <br />irrigating, Garvey— irrigating, Weimer— irrigating, Cooper— irrigating. <br />There was ice under the sprinklers on the mornings of Tuesday May 31 and Friday June 3, hay doesn't <br />grow well when it's that cool. Should pick up now that temps are 50's — 60's at night. <br />It is my recollection that last year we were specifically directed by DRMS (Sandy Brown and Dan <br />Matthews) not to conduct any revegetation sampling until after June 15, 2010. This was a factor in our <br />scheduling of revegetation sampling in the current year. <br />{00053907.1 } <br />