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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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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