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the Rice Tract or NH1 Mine Area. Mr. Stan Garvey, brother of Joe Garvey was also consulted. <br />Excellent background information on the Glasier and Meehan properties was obtained from Mr. <br />Preston Carver, who has leased these two properties since 1984. He reported his management <br />experiences and shared information relative to the irrigation, cropping and grazing uses the <br />Carver Ranches have had on these properties. Additional valuable information was obtained <br />from Mr. Rex Case, who lives just to the east of the northeast corner of the Glasier Property. His <br />Grandfather Nygren was an original homesteader of a large portion of this site and Mr. Case has <br />been intimately familiar with this site for near 60 years. Mr. Ron Carver, another current <br />neighbor of the property married a daughter of the previous owner of the Glasier Property and <br />lived for years on what is now the Glasier Property and moved into his new home now located to <br />the east of the Meehan Property about 13 years ago. In addition, WFC employees, Lance Wade <br />and Ross Gubka, who have both worked for WFC since 1992 were also consulted. <br />Consultation was also made with Mr. Jim Boyd current NRCS District Conservationist, in <br />Norwood, regarding the historic involvement of the NRCS with respect to the management of <br />these properties. Mr. Dean Stindt, who was formerly the NRCS District Conservationist with the <br />NRCS in Norwood and worked there for almost 10 years before Mr. Boyd took his place. In <br />addition to these discussions, we also consulted the NRCS aerial photography taken in 2005, <br />2006, 2008 and 2009 as well as earlier aerial photographs. <br />In the long term, there appears to have been a rather pronounced decrease in the level of <br />management since Mr. Carl Mitchell sold his property and moved off the site nearly 13 years <br />ago, on what is now the Glasier property. Similarly, during the ownership of Mr. Jack Smith, <br />father of Mrs. Thomas Meehan, there was decidedly more intensive irrigation of this property <br />while he lived on the property. It appears that there have been significantly less intensive levels <br />of management on both the Glasier and Meehan properties than what is experienced on the <br />Garvey property where the owners essentially live on the land. Mr. Preston Carver reports that <br />since he has leased the Glasier and Meehan property in 1984, it has essentially had the same <br />level of management. Given the fact that on both the Glasier and Meehan property there has <br />been a significant invasion of Prairie Dogs into what was historically irrigated pasture and given <br />the size and number of these burrows, as well as the type of vegetation now growing on these <br />sites, it can be concluded that there have been no dramatic changes in management direction <br />within the past five years on either the Glasier or Meehan property as reported by Mr. Carver and <br />the others consulted. Based upon our experience with the site starting in October of 2008, and <br />examination of this information, we conclude that there have been no changes in land use on <br />these properties in the past five years. <br />Existing Land Uses within the proposed New Horizon North Mine Permit Area <br />According to the existing Land Use definitions found in Section 1.04.71, the current DRMS <br />regulations contain a total of ten accepted land use categories which include: Cropland, <br />Pastureland, Rangeland, Forestry, Residential, Industrial or Commercial, Recreation, Fish and <br />Section 2.04.3 Page 3 November 2011 <br />