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Exhibit B - Vegetation <br />Site Description (cont) Exhibit B <br />"JEG_ETATION -NFo 's'TTCN <br />_ . <br />Current cover percent Is: 4 5 to 65 <br />2. Topsoil dept: on site average _0 to 12 inches <br />3. Seeding Ganes recommended: October 15 to May 1. <br />Fertilizer, if needed: Phcsonate 4C ib /ac and nitrogen <br />_0 lb-ac. <br />5 Seeding recommendation for area: <br />Non - Irrigated grass seed recommendation <br />Seed Rate PLS /acre <br />Western Wheatgrass (Arriba) 2.40 <br />Switchgrass (Pathfinder) 0.25 <br />Little Bluestem (Pasture) 0.35 <br />Big Bluestem (Kaw) 0.825 <br />Sideoats grama (Vaughn) 0.675 <br />Green Needlegrass 0.375 <br />Yellow sweet clover 0.35 <br />Blue Flax 0.04 <br />5.265= <br />This seed mix and rates was prepared by the local MRCS <br />office at our request. It is a combination of native grasses and <br />forbs that has proven successful on other sites in the vicinity <br />of this mine. The seed will be drilled where possible and <br />doubled if broadcast. The site is currently part of a ridgline <br />located in a Loamy Park range site unit found in western Las <br />Animas County. It is a mountain meadow with no special or unique <br />characteristics with mostly grass and forbs covering the area. <br />Average annual production_ is approximately 2100 pounds per acre. <br />Tall grasses make up apprcx= mately 660% of the vegetative cover <br />and the plant community is 75 to 90 percent grasses and 10 to 25 <br />percent ferns, trees and brush_ <br />The spec_es of vegetation found on the site are Arizona <br />fescue, Thu-ber's fescue, Parry denthonia, Slender wneatgrass, <br />Western wheatgrass, 51:= egrass, Mountain brcme and Moantain muhly. <br />These crass species makeup 35% to 90%, by weight, of the vegeta- <br />tion found on the site. <br />N3r = T__1iicaz:ed at If drilled -he - ^ixtures will be doubled if <br />.__ca coast. <br />