the area had received some dumping of uranium ore in it.
The Orphan Mine
is right on the South Rim there, of course, and so we made a series of
measurements there in addition to the ones that were nominated by Frosty as
being sites for the ORERP program.
The next slide (JK-18).
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Here's a site that Frosty nominated that we
would probably give a "C" or and "X," I don't know.
It was a salt marsh,
and it shows you the other end of the spectrum of sites in an area that
receives little or no rainfall.
measure.
You have a hard time finding a site to
This is a few miles away from Death Valley.
We did measure the
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Lodge lawn there and we got
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12
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200 feet below sea level and one inch of rainfall a year.
small
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cottonwood
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a fairly good
value for
a place that was
Of course, it
gets more than that from the hose but the fallout comes via the rainfall.
The next slide (JK-19)
lawn,
but
trees
it
fell
here,
is a courthouse in Bridgeport and a somewhat
within
and,
of
the
criteria.
course,
when
There
you
look
were
at
some
the
large
trees,
as
Frosty mentioned a minute ago, 30 years ago their canopies probably did not
intercept that large an area, so you have that (time) consideration.
The
next
slide
(JK-20)
is
the
quad
at
the
University
of
Nevada.
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Previously it had been rather pristine but in the recent past, it had been
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stomped and trampled by what looked like scrimmages by the football team,
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and Howard had some remarks about it when he sampled the soil there, but it
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was a fairly old area, even though the top few centimeters were chewed up
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by college rituals or something.
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The next slide (JK-21) is a nice scenic site over in eastern Colorado
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natural habitat classification.
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difference in the sites which, of course, is quite obvious.
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here saintaining this. although some of these sites were irrigated by flood
(sic) and a pasture, sort of a meadow-like pasture.
All
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It fell
into our
three of us recognized this basic
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