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Keenesburg Mine 2016 Vegetation Monitoring Report <br />Figure 9: Herbaceous Production by Life Form 20.1411— 2016 <br />300 <br />7.3 Species Composition <br />Only Reclamation Area 29 met the species composition success criteria this season. Reclamation <br />Areas 23, 30, and 31 all had the required number of warm season grasses, but none exhibited the <br />one cool season grass species necessary to meet the requirement (Table 20). Reclamation Area <br />25 fell short on both the number of warm and cool season grasses exhibiting only two perennial <br />grass species with 3% relative cover. <br />Tahle 20- Sneeiec Cmmnnsitinn Success Standard Comnarisnn <br />Species Composition <br />Success <br />Standard <br />23 <br />250 <br />31 <br />Total Perennial Species <br />4 <br />3 <br />2 <br />0 200 <br />3 <br />4 <br />U <br />3 <br />3 <br />0 150 <br />4 <br />3 <br />4 <br />Cool Season Grasses <br />1 <br />J <br />100 <br />0 <br />1 <br />0 <br />■ <br />■ <br />L <br />No <br />No <br />= 50 <br />No <br />No <br />2012 2015 2016 2016 2012 2015 2016 2012 2014 2015 2016 2012 2014 2015 2016 <br />Area 23 Area Area 29 <br />Area 30 Area 31 <br />25 <br />■ Perennial Native ■ Annual Native <br />■ Annual Introduced Forbs ■ Cheatgrass <br />7.3 Species Composition <br />Only Reclamation Area 29 met the species composition success criteria this season. Reclamation <br />Areas 23, 30, and 31 all had the required number of warm season grasses, but none exhibited the <br />one cool season grass species necessary to meet the requirement (Table 20). Reclamation Area <br />25 fell short on both the number of warm and cool season grasses exhibiting only two perennial <br />grass species with 3% relative cover. <br />Tahle 20- Sneeiec Cmmnnsitinn Success Standard Comnarisnn <br />Species Composition <br />Success <br />Standard <br />23 <br />Reclamation Area <br />25 29 30 <br />31 <br />Total Perennial Species <br />4 <br />3 <br />2 <br />5 <br />3 <br />4 <br />Warm Season Grasses <br />3 <br />3 <br />2 <br />4 <br />3 <br />4 <br />Cool Season Grasses <br />1 <br />0 <br />0 <br />1 <br />0 <br />0 <br />No <br />No <br />Yes <br />No <br />No <br />* All species included must constitute between 3% and 40% of the relative cover <br />** Noxious species are not included in the calculations for species composition. <br />Cool season perennial grasses contributed 4.9% and 4.4%, respectively, of the relative cover in <br />Reclamation Areas 25 and 31, but no one species contributed 3%. One cool season perennial <br />grass was observed along a transect in Reclamation Area 23 and cool season perennial grasses <br />were observed as a small component of the diversity in Reclamation Area 30, but no species <br />were recorded along any of the monitored transects. <br />Habitat Management, Inc. 29 October 2016 <br />