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The following shrub and tree planting lists include trees and shrubs for speafic planting sites. The planted • <br />species will attempt to establish islands that will eventually develop woody plant communities, restore <br />habitat, and enhance plant community diversity, pattern, and strudure. The plantings are nd intended to <br />restore woody plant communities on a large scale in the mine atteded areas. As explained in Woody Plant <br />Density under the success standards, restoring even moderate densities on a large scale is not feasible. <br />However, the species seleded for the various planting areas are native to the area and site-adapted and <br />may be able to spread and colonize new areas over time. The plantings will be concentrated in larger open <br />blocks of the reclaimed area to promote woody plant reestablishment and mitigate wildl'de habkat loss. They <br />will be suffidentty scattered to diversify habitat potential. Development of wildlife conidors was also a <br />consideration. Exhibit 13-1 shows primary seledion areas for planting sites. These areas do not represent <br />the acreage to be established. Final site selection and add'fional planting sites will be based on field <br />observation. Suffident sites will be established to meet the criteria in the woody plant density success <br />criteria. <br />Natural regeneration of shrubs, particularly big sagebrush and mountain snowbeny, has played an important <br />role in woody plant reestablishment at the Seneca II Mine. These two shrubs occur in native stands that <br />have a high composition of herbaceous species. It should be expected that these two speces will dominate • <br />shrub composition in reclaimed areas which are also comprised of primarily herbaceous spades. <br />Complimenting natural regeneratrort will be the inclusion of shrub seed in the seed mixes and the <br />establishment of concentrated shrub seeding areas where competing herbaceous vegetation will be <br />controlled. The dose proximity of undisturbed native vegetation, some of which may occur within the mine <br />affeded area, will also enhance woody plant mitigation efforts. <br />Shrub and tree seedlings will be seleded from planting stock developed from regional genotypes. Planting <br />stock will primarily tie containerized, although bare root stock may occasionally be used. Since 1990, <br />Peabody has been planting chokecheny, serviceberry, and Gambel oak seedlings developed from seed <br />celleded at the Seneca Mine. This practice will continue; however, poor seed crops for spades such as <br />Gambel oak are common antl may restrict the level at which a spades may be used in a given year. Table <br />13-6 lists the primary species and addition/substitute species to be used in planting areas. The species <br />selected represent those spades which may have a better opportunity for establishment considedng the <br />more xeric site conditions of the reclaimed areas. Aspen has been <br /> <br />13-18 Revised 1/15193 <br />