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IRIS <br />MITIGATION AND DESIGN, INC. <br />Environmental Consulting <br />IRIS MITIGATION AND DESIGN, INC. <br />2022 Arapahoe Street <br />Golden, Colorado 80401 <br />Phone: 720 - 272 -1985 <br />bleisure @irismitigation.com <br />All seeding and mulching of mitigation areas to be completed following Phase 1 construction <br />activities, as required in the revised actual area impact and mitigation calculations (see Table 1), <br />were therefore completed by the middle of September 2012. The required trees and shrubs <br />which will need to be planted at the end of Phase 1 construction activities will be installed in the <br />spring of 2013, in either late April or May depending on weather conditions. The tree and shrub <br />count is detailed on Table 2 and includes 2 upland trees, 208 upland shrubs, 20 riparian trees, <br />120 riparian shrubs and 150 willow stakes. The remaining Phase 1 impacted trees and shrubs <br />and mitigation activities as detailed on Table 1 will be completed following Phase 3 clean -up <br />activities. These will include 0.3 acre of upland area restoration being seeded and mulched, <br />0.35 acre of riparian area creation and restoration being seeded and mulched and the planting <br />of 174 riparian trees and 615 willow stakes. The reason for the delay in planting of the trees <br />and willow stakes is that much of the area along Ralston Creek downstream of the cut -off wall <br />may be impacted during valley floor clean -up activities. Since it is unknown at this point exactly <br />where this impact will occur, the planting of required trees and shrubs will be more prudent once <br />the valley floor and associated Ralston Creek clean -up work has been completed. <br />IRIS has been monitoring tree and shrub health along Ralston Creek within ten 3 -meter square <br />plots as part of the 2011 BA requirements. Blair Leisure has been collecting data monthly <br />downstream of the cut -off wall since July 2012. One more set of data will be collected in late <br />September 2012. This data will be used to compare with next year's data that will also be <br />collected along the creek monthly during the growing season in 2013. All data will be available <br />in the Schwartzwalder Mine 2013 Monitoring Report to be completed for 2013. <br />Schwartzwalder Mine Actual Area Impact Progress Report Page 3 <br />January 2013 <br />