U.S. Geological Survey

Response from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to take part in the environmental review of the Resolution Copper Project and Land Exchange Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) as a participating agency.

The response of desert plant assemblages to disturbance was studied in Death Valley National Monument, California. Plant assemblages on debris flows, alluvial terraces, five abandoned townsites, and a pipeline corridor were measured to quantify recovery rates and to develop a model of change in desert vegetation.

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The current on-line catalog also lists, for some regions of the U.S., mining events that were located by regional networks prior to August 2013 and that were not originally listed in catalogs produced by the USGS/NEIC.