2012-06-20_PERMIT FILE - C2010089A (19)

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All of the lands within the proposed NHN Mine Permit Area are subjected to grazing. According to discussions with Mr. Joe Garvey, the Garvey Brothers put 90 two- year -old heifers on their property on 20 November 2008 and removed them on 10 January. On 1 January 2009 they put 200 mother cows on their lands and they were removed on 10 February. On 10 February they put 90 head of yearly calves on their land and they stayed until 2 March 2009, when they were removed. Exact dates from previous years were not available with respect to the numbers and dates, cattle were brought onto their land, but Mr. Garvey reports that they have operated using a similar management practice essentially ever since they obtained the property nearly twenty years ago. On the Glasier and Meehan properties, Mr. Preston Carver reports that they typically move their cattle from Third Park to this site usually around the middle of December and leave them on this site until about the end of March. In the fall of 2008, they moved 28 cows, three horses and one crippled bull onto the property during the fourth week of November 2008 and they stayed on the property until the end of March 2009. He states that this stocking rate was similar to what they have done in past years. With respect to fertilization, Mr. Joe Garvey reports that on 13 March 2009 they applied 250 pounds per acre of 18 -46 -0 fertilizer containing one half urea. He says that in most years they apply a similar level of fertilizer, however, in some years, as was the case in 2008, fertilizer was so expensive that they did not apply any supplemental fertilizer. The Garvey's harvested hay off their property during the third week of June 2009. Mr. Stan Garvey reported that they harvested a total of 127 bales. A total of 45 bales came off the northern most parcel of their land north of the irrigation ditch, 66 bales off the parcel to the south of the irrigation ditch and a total of 16 bales came off the southern most piece of ground, immediately to the west of the brick house. They did not weight their bales, but Mr. Garvey estimates that the bales averaged 1,500 pounds of dry weight per bale. The extent of the area harvested for hay on the Garvey property is shown on Map 2.04.3 -1- Land Use Map. Given the areas of these three tracts, the harvested hay yields equaled 5,931, 5,779 and 3,347 pounds or 2.97, 2.89 and 1.68 tons per acre of partially air dried material per acre on these three parcels respectively. This equates to an average yield of 5,339 pounds or 2.67 tons per acre. Mr. Garvey could not remember the number of bales harvested in previous years but believed that it was similar to these yields. The normal cutting practice for harvesting hay on the Glasier, Meehan and Garvey properties is to harvest only one cutting of hay and leave the regrowth as forage for winter grazing. Mr. Preston Carver, reports that since he has leased the Glasier and Meehan properties, he has never once harvested a second cutting of hay. With respect to Garvey property, both Mr. Joe Garvey Section 2.04.3 Page 9 November 2011