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09 <br /> inaRnounrain.No& <br /> MIEMO <br /> To: George are, Recstone Corp. <br /> From: TOM Colert <br /> Date. jaruary t C. 1, 985 <br /> Re. 't4`ooay ^Far' rdonci,T_ir 4 rt,,er !.os "as r i; <br /> exploi L on r.^_.ac <br /> t <br /> ;-,, veaetat fer!i Co''':?mt ''le rvua ierr�.nur i�:�v�� mar.,Der-, <br /> and samolea in the original vegetation, Daseline inventor; none severa, <br /> years ago by WRD. IThe area encompassing toe road ccrridcr was mapped as <br /> Dart of this invent as the spruce/fir parKlana vegetation type. The <br /> road corridor area was not sampled, nowever. But a considerable area of <br /> this vegetation typewas sampled in the original inventory and a reference <br /> area was establishd. Therefore, information contained in the Coal Basin <br /> Mine permit application already includes quite a bit of information about <br /> this vegetation typ _ Sample adequacy was achieved for this vegetation <br /> type in the original vegetation inventory. <br /> Tnis situation is exactly the same as the situation with the aspen <br /> vegetation type atlthe Sutey property. in that case, the Division deemed <br /> it not to be necessary to re-sample this type completely There should be <br /> no reason to do it for the proposed road either. (See MaD I I i-H-2 of the <br /> permit application.) <br /> r, <br /> According, to 0-3�jcy of tne (liviclnn <br /> not required for communities where woody plant .over is less than ? <br /> percent. The measured cover for woody species for the das well <br /> exploration road is only 7.4 percent. Altnough tree canopy cover was- <br /> not measured, it i� likely that combined woody plant overstory ano <br /> understory cover is less than l S percent for the qas well exploration <br /> road area by itself (the spruce/fir Darklana type considered over the <br /> entire inventoried area does nave woody plant cover greater than '5 <br /> percent). The original vegetation baseline inventory states that <br /> con ifers..."although visually dominant...contriDuted only 2.5 Dercent <br /> cover, owing to tree patchiness of their distribution." Tnerefore, the <br /> necessity of woody plant density samplinq at all is doubtful, according to <br /> the Division's own d�eaetation <br /> finition of a woody vegetation type, if the inventory <br /> of the road corridor were to stand alone. <br />