2006 HIGH ALTITUDE REVEGETATION SUMMER FIELD TOUR

2010 HIGH ALTITUDE REVEGETATION SUMMER FIELD TOUR

Revegetation Sites West of Salt Lake City, Utah

Sponsored by the

High Altitude Revegetation Committee

August 5 and 6, 2010

The High Altitude Revegetation Committee, through Colorado State University, invites you to the 36^th annual High Altitude Revegetation Summer Field Tour. These FREE annual Summer Tours give us a chance to visit various types of disturbed areas and take a close-up look at reclamation projects in action. The tour this year will be held in the Salt Lake City, Utah area and will focus on mine land reclamation. On the first day, we will visit the Kennecott Copper mine site to view reclamation activities associated with their tailings pond, old smelting and processing facilities, and waste dumps. The second day will be spent in the Tooele, Utah area visiting several Mine Reclamation Sites and conclude at Eureka, Utah, which is a Superfund Remediation Site.

As always, we invite your family and friends to accompany you. No fees or preregistration is necessary – just show up Thursday morning before 9:00 a.m., and provide your own picnic lunches for both days. Come prepared for both days with personal outdoor items such as sunscreen, insect repellent, water, rain gear, hat, etc. The Thursday evening barbeque is free, and we will take a final “nose count” on Thursday morning to know how many will attend. If you know you will be attending, it would be helpful if you could email Lynn Kunzler at lynnkunzler@utah.gov by July 10 with an approximate number that will be attending the barbeque so that the caterer can be prepared.

Schedule of Events

Thursday, August 5, 2010

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Arrival and barbecue sign-up.

Location: Meet at the Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Building located at 1594 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah by 9:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Kennecott Utah Copper - Proceed as a group to the mine site. The first stop will be at the tailings pond to view and discuss their revegetation efforts. Approximately 6,000 acres of tailings have been reclaimed. We will be able to view several stages of revegetation from areas that were just seeded within the last couple of years to areas that were revegetated over 10 years ago. The second stop will be at their Barney’s Canyon Mine which is a heap-leach gold operation that was reclaimed about 5 years ago. The third stop will be at the Kennecott Copper Mine itself where we will look at study plots, recent and on-going reclamation of waste dumps, and of course, a stop at their visitor center to view current operations in the Pit. If you have ever seen pictures of the Kennecott Copper Mine, you know you don’t want to forget your camera!!

5:00 p.m. - Social Hour and 6:00 p.m. - Barbecue. The barbeque will be held at the Daybreak Development which was once part of the mining plan that has since been reclaimed into a 'green' community, with business, residential, and open space (including ponds). Directions to the site will be handed out on Thursday morning.

Friday, August 6, 2010

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Arrival.

Location: Meet at the Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Building located at 1594 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah by 9:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Tooele and Eureka, Utah area - The first stop will be at the Barrick-Mercur Mine south of Tooele, Utah that was closed several years ago. They are still dealing with reclamation of their tailing pond. The second stop will be in the Eureka, Utah area where we will look at superfund abatement work that the EPA has completed, which includes closure of several old mines. This will conclude the tour.

2:00 p.m. Tour Complete. Eureka is about 1.5 hours from Salt Lake City for those that need to catch flights, etc. Please drive home with care or enjoy a weekend in the Salt Lake City area. We would like to invite you to our summer tour in 2011. Please visit our HAR website for more details (www.highaltitudereveg.org).

Accommodations/Camping in the Salt Lake City Area

Lodging:

All Star Travel Inn

754 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116

801-531-7300

Econo Lodge-Downtown

715 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116

801-363-0062

Quality Inn Airport

1659 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116

801- 533-9000

Sky Harbor Suites

1876 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116

801-539-8420

Campgrounds:

Salt Lake City KOA

1876 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84116

800-562-9510

Pony Express RV Resort

1012 West Recreation Way, North Salt Lake, UT 84054

800-780-0170

There are also many Forest Service campgrounds in the canyons along the Wasatch Front.