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Doc Date:12111l2001 II I I II I III II IIII III <br />sss <br />2.9 LAND USE <br />2.9.1 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS <br />The regional land use surrounding the Edna Mine ranges from coal mining to <br />irrigated hay and wheat production. The principal land use is rangelend without <br />management controls other than rotational grazing of sheep and cattle. There are <br />irrigated and subirrigated hay and wheat fields adjacent to Trout Creel< and near the <br />Edna Mine permit area. Within the mine area, there is rangeland and clusters of <br />forest land. The Moffat area is rangeland used for summer grazing by sheep. The <br />climatic and topographic conditions of the region are restrictive to the effect that <br />the remainder of The mine area is not utilized for agricultural purposes and is <br />rangeland and forest land. <br />2.9.2 OBSERVATIONS <br />2.9.2.1 Regional Land Use <br />• A Land Use and Land Cover map of Craig; Colorado; Wyoming was published in <br />1979 by the U.S.G.S. from information compiled in 1975 to 1977. From this map, <br />the area around the Edna Mine was enlarged from a 1:250,000 scale to a 1:24,000 <br />scale and was then overlayed on the topography map for the area (see Exhibit 2.9-I). <br />This Exhibit 2.9-I shows, on a Level II order, i~he major land use and land cover for <br />the area as mixed rangeland and forests. The fpllowing definitions provide a general <br />understanding of what is included in each category at Levels I and II. Level I is <br />represented by one digit numbers (i.e., I is Urban Land) and Level II is represented <br />by two digit numbers, (i.e., II is Residential). This is not the complete classification <br />and ii defines only the units found on Exhibit 2.°O-I. All of these definitions ore <br />taken from the U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1964, A Land Use and Land Cover <br />Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data. The minimum mapping <br />units for the Level II order are: 10 acres for~Categories II-13, 24 and 75, and 40 <br />acres for all other Level II categories. <br />I. URBAN OR BUNT-UP LAND <br />• Urban or Built-up Land is comprised of areps of intensive vse with much of the <br />land covered by structures. Included in this category ore cities, towns, villages, strip <br />2.9-I <br />