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• <br />• <br />• <br />Exhibit J - (AMENDMENT 4) <br />Vegetation Information <br />NOTE: Phase 7 (amendment 4) does not include any vegetation units that differ from previous <br />permitted areas that were included for mining and reclamation. Therefore, the original information <br />remains valid. Some emphasis is added here for the Phase 7 area. <br />The vegetation of this site is a very complex assemblage of types ranging from highly disturbed <br />industrial areas to natural riparian forest (see former Exhibit C -6, Amendment 3, for the Vegetation Map). <br />Much of the land is former agricultural land, most recently used for grazing but apparently also used for crops <br />in the past. With such a complex array of units, it is difficult to decipher the various developmental pathways. <br />Making the situation even more complex are the more or less banded soils that follow the river flow direction. <br />Near the river are thinner more sandy and gravelly soils while further from the river the soils become more <br />clayey. Because of the high degree of disturbance and long history of changing uses, there is little relationship <br />between vegetation and soil units. Only the natural vegetation nearest the river seems to correspond to <br />particular soils. The following table lists all of the vegetation units identified within the entire permit area. The <br />last column indicates whether the particular vegetation unit is found within the affected land of Phase 7. <br />Following the table are descriptions of each unit. The units are generally arranged in order from most natural to <br />least natural, although such an ordering is clearly artificial. <br />1 <br />