nN
w
California (sic), probably an "A" site with a good, old lawn, relatively
well-managed for the area, I guess.
You would have to be sensitive to
various things like sprinkler systems being put in, which typically have
-occurred in the last 10-15 years and the trenching that was done to do
‘that.
the site was disturbed,
Sometimes
and
it wasn't hardly evident.
Samet imes -you would see vegetation differences, and it would suggest to you
had
that ‘the. site
been
even
disturbed
though
the
people
said
that
everything was—Just peachy there for the last 30-40 years; so you had to
use a littlenn of ecological intuition and observation to really check
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out the sites.
.
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The next sltde-{JK-15) I think is over in Nevada where the natural
ll
12
pastures were analyzed with the portable diode system.
This is a pulse
13
height analyzer,
The pulse height
14
analyzer and everything (assoctated circuitry) is right in that small unit,
15
and it records the data on a inttricassette.
16
cassette.
and thisis_an extra battery supply.
—™
You get about 10 spectra on the
~
The next slide (JK-16) -- I think-that's up near McGill -- Here are
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18
some of the natural habitat types.
19
a
20
Frosty showed,
21
vegetation cover is not continuous here and perhaps it doesn't satisfy the
22
criteria that Harold's group have set up, but wemeasured, perhaps, I don't
23
know, maybe 30-40 of these sites during the process—of the summer's work.
24
They were ones
25
weren't any lawns, and so this is about all you had.
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juniper
pinion
pine woodland
This is an open bunch grass underneath
on
the South
Rim of the Grand
Canyon.
I think, this same site without the equipment in it.
that were
nominated
by
Frosty, ~and- inthis
area
The
there
.
The next slide (JK-17) a little more complete vegetated cover in the
27
same region.
This was an area where uranium ore trucks stopped in and did
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some sort of truck servicing and the Park Service had some suspicions that
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