2018-01-31_PERMIT FILE - C2009087 ‎(25)‎

• Permit No: C2009087
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 1/31/2018
• Doc Name: Vegetation Information
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 2.04.10-E1 Vegetation Information
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Table 15. Cover Data - Yoast Mine CRP /improved Pasture Reference Area,
Sage Creek Mine Baseline, Sage Creek Coal Company, Routt County, CO - 2008
RELATIVE RELATIVE
PLANT SPECIES AVERAGE VEGETATION AVERAGE VEGETATION
COVER FREQUENCY COVER COVER -ALL COVER -ALL
N N N N N
Page 2 of 4
Percent Foliar Cover"
- -- Sample Number-- -
1 2 3
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Bromopsis inermis
27.20
100.00
63.26
29.13
63.89
26(1)
25(4)
28(1)
Phleum pratense
2.40
100.00
5.58
2.47
5.41
5
4(1)
1
Thinopyrum intermedium
0.73
73.33
1.71
0.73
1.61
P
2
3
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c)
30.3
100.0
70.5
32.3
70.9
31(1)
31(5)
32(1)
NATIVE SHRUBS
Amelanchier alnifolia
0.00
13.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
Chrysothamnus nauseosus
0.00
13.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
P
Rosa arkansana
0.00
6.67
0.00
0.00
0.00
Rosa woodsii
0.27
13.33
0.62
0.27
0.58
Seriphidium tridentatum
8.73
100.00
20.31
9.07
19.88
5(1)
12
8
TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS
9.0
100.0
20.9
9.3
20.5
5(1)
12
8
BRYOPHYTES
Moss
0.13
20.00
0.31
0.13
0.29
1
TOTAL BRYOPHYTES
0.1
20.0
0.3
0.1
0.3
- --
- --
1
LICHENS
Lichen
0.07
13.33
0.16
0.07
0.15
1
TOTAL LICHENS
0.1
13.3
0.2
0.1
0.1
- --
1
- --
Standing dead
1.93
86.67
1.93
5
3
3
Litter
34.73
100.00
34.73
43
29
36
Bare soil
20.27
100.00
20.27
12
21
16
Rock
0.07
6.67
0.07
TOTALS
100.0
102.6
100
100
100
TOTAL VEGETATION COVER
43.0 (s =4.4)
100.0
45.6 (s =5.5)
100.0
4 0(2)
47(5)
45(1)
GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St.Dead)
79.7
82.3
88(2)
79(5)
84(1)
SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.)
23
26
26
(AVERAGE= 21.7 Std.Dev.= 4.1)
"P= Present within 1 m. on either side of cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered.
() =Data in parens. = 2nd hits. A 1 st hit is top -most layer of vegetation, below 1 st hit interceptions may exist other interceptions - these are 2nd
hits.