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BMP ID: 5267
Title: Do not apply fire retardant chemicals to plants of concern
Text: Project Planning Phase: "13... Some examples of appropriate and creative project planning include: Fire retardant chemicals should not be applied to plants of concern."
Source Publication Name: Recommended Best Management Practices for Plants of Concern: Practices Developed to Reduce the Impacts of Oil and Gas Development Activities to Plants of Concern
Citation Section:
Citation Page: 5
Supplemental Documents:  
Usage Type: Recommended
Timing: • Planning / Environmental Review
• Production / Operation / Maintenance
Oil / Gas Field:  
Surface Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Mineral Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Primary Contact: Betsy Neely
The Nature Conservancy: Colorado Field Office
2424 Spruce St.
Boulder, Colorado  80302   United States
Phone:(720) 974-7015     Alt. Phone:(303) 881-4144
Fax:     E-mail:bneely@tnc.org
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Categories: Vegetation
Location: Colorado
Species:
• Astragalus debequaeus (DeBeque milkvetch)
• Astragalus humillimus (Mancos milkvetch)
• Astragalus osterhoutii (Kremmling milkvetch)
• Cryptantha gypsophila (Gypsum Valley cat's-eye)
• Eriogonum clavellatum (Comb Wash buckwheat)
• Eriogonum pelinophilum (Clay-loving Wild-Buckwheat)
• Lesquerella congesta (Dudley Bluffs bladderpod)
• Lesquerella parviflora (Piceance bladderpod)
• Mentzelia rhizomata (Roan Cliffs Blazingstar)
• Penstemon debilis (Parachute penstemon, Parachute beardtongu
• Penstemon fremontii var. glabrescens (Fremont's beardtongue)
• Penstemon grahamii (Uinta Basin beardtongue, Graham's p.)
• Penstemon scariosus var. albifluvis(White River beardtongue)
• Phacelia scopulina var. submutica (Debeque phacelia)
• Physaria obcordata (Dudley Bluffs twinpod)
• Thalictrum heliophyllum (Sun-loving Meadow Rue)
• Unknown
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Date Entered: 2009-05-11 14:14 UTC
Last Updated: 2009-05-11 14:59 UTC