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•T <br /> III II I II IIIIIIIIIII <br />999 <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />DeparlmeN nl Natural RCwurcCS <br />111 ]Sherman 51., Room ? I S J`y <br /> <br />DCnver, Colorado RO_'OS ~~ <br /> <br />Fhonc: IJO}I R6fiJ 56i III <br />FAr. (3C17i R3? R10fi <br /> DEPARTMENT OF <br /> NATURAL <br /> RESOURCES <br /> Roy Ramer <br /> Governor <br />November 18, 1997 lan,r,s L~ennr.,,~ <br /> E,ecuuve Direan, <br /> <br />Jim Kiger Michael B Long <br />Dklslnn Dneciui <br />Colowyo Coal Company <br />5731 State Highway 13 <br />Meeker, CO 81641 <br />RE: DMG Shrub Tour and Revegetation Rule-making <br />Dear Mr. Kiger: <br />This letter is a belated "thank you" and an update following the shrub establishment tour <br />you participated in this past July. I would also like to inform you of the progress of our <br />renewed effort to revise portions of the regulations pertaining to revegetation <br />performance standards. On behalf of the Division of Minerals and Geology, I wanted <br />to express our appreciation to Colowyo Coal Company for hosting a part of the tour and <br />to thank you for participating in the tour. <br />As you know, the Division is interested in pursuing beneficial and productive resolution <br />to the challenges faced by Colorado coal mines in establishing shrubs on reclaimed mined <br />lands. Toward that goal, this year's shrub tour was organized as afact-finding mission. <br />The tour gave Division staff and reclamation staff from several northwest coal mines an <br />opportunity to review and assess some of the shrub establishment efforts undertaken in <br />the past. We at the Division feel that the tour was a successful and useful effort. We <br />hope that you gained some useful information from the tour, as well. <br />As we discussed during the tour, the Division hopes to resolve three general questions <br />related to the use of shrubs in reclamation. First, is the establishment of shrubs on <br />reclaimed lands essential? Second, what are the successes and failures of past shrub <br />establishment efforts? Finally, what types of success standards and sampling methods <br />are most appropriate for areas where shrubs are a required component of reclamation? <br />In order to address the first question, input from the Colorado Division of Wildlife will be <br />necessary. While it is unfortunate that the CDOW was unable to participate in the tour, <br />the Division hopes to seek their comments on this matter in another forum this winter. <br />