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Mr. Phillip Woodard <br />Box 715 <br />Ophir, CO 81426 <br />Dear Mr. Woodard, <br />Attached you will find the bill for weed control at the Pathfinder Gravel pit for 2011. You will also find a map <br />showing the areas covered during that treatment. <br />The work was done on two occasions July 25 and August 5, 2011. Rain was a problem this year throughout the <br />season. I apologize for taking longer than anticipated getting to the site. We did go slightly over the estimated <br />$1000 that we discussed. The crew found more problem areas than anticipated when they were at the location <br />and assumed you would rather they continued than quit early. I hope this is not a problem. <br />The common weeds treated included Canada thistle, musk thistle, yellow toadflax and oxeye daisy. We treated <br />a small number of plants of houndstongue. Houndstongue is on the state B list but is not locally common so is <br />treated as an A list species in San Miguel County meaning that there is no allowable population. Other plants <br />treated include black medic, yellow sweetclover and several native thistles that you indicated you wished to see <br />controlled. Other common nuisance weeds were treated but not noted on the daily reports. <br />As I mentioned when we spoke, this is not going to be a one year project. I would anticipate three years of <br />treatment at this location and then follow -up treatment after that time in order to prevent the noxious weeds from <br />reestablishing. <br />There is an effort underway in Colorado to create a "weed free gravel program ". It would operate similar to the <br />existing weed free forage program and would be strictly voluntary. It would create a product that could be <br />offered at higher price and that may be required in the future for work on some public lands and by some <br />educated landowners. I assume that at some point this could become an active gravel mine again so maintaining <br />it in as weed free of a condition as possible will be useful. <br />Please don't hesitate to contact me if there is anything else I can do for you. My contact information is above. <br />I look forward to working with you again. <br />Sheila ro ' er <br />San Miguel County Weed Control Program Manager <br />San Miguel County Weed Control Program <br />Box 130 <br />Norwood, CO 81423 <br />970 327 -0399 Phone 970 327 -4090 Fax <br />email- sheilag(aisanmigueleounty.org <br />August 23, 2011 <br />