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• <br />• <br />Table 15. Cover Data - Yoast Mine CRP /Improved Pasture Reference Area, <br />Sage Creek Mine Baseline, Sage Creek Coal Company, Routt County, CO - 2008 <br />PLANT SPECIES <br />Percent Foliar Cover* <br />Page 4 of 4 <br />- -- Sample Number-- - <br />8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Bromopsis inermis <br />26 <br />35 <br />25(1) <br />24(5) <br />33 <br />24(3) <br />20(1) <br />27(2) <br />34(4) <br />31(1) <br />25(4) <br />25(2) <br />Phleum pratense <br />5 <br />P <br />1 <br />4 <br />3 <br />1 <br />3 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />1 <br />Thinopyrum intermedium <br />1 <br />P <br />1 <br />P <br />2 <br />1 <br />P <br />1 <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) <br />32 <br />35 <br />26(1) <br />29(5) <br />36 <br />27(3) <br />23(1) <br />30(2) <br />36(4) <br />33(1) <br />27(4) <br />27(2) <br />NATIVE SHRUBS <br />Amelanchier alnifolia <br />P <br />P <br />Chrysothamnus nauseosus <br />p <br />Rosa arkansana <br />P <br />Rosa woodsii <br />4 <br />P <br />Seriphidium tridentatum <br />2 <br />11 <br />10 <br />11 <br />1(1) <br />8(1) <br />13 <br />4 <br />8 <br />13(2) <br />17 <br />8 <br />TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS <br />2 <br />11 <br />10 <br />11 <br />1(1) <br />8(1) <br />13 <br />8 <br />8 <br />13(2) <br />17 <br />8 <br />BRYOPHYTES <br />Moss <br />1 <br />P <br />TOTAL BRYOPHYTES <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />1 <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />P <br />- -- <br />- <br />LICHENS <br />Lichen <br />P <br />TOTAL LICHENS <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- <br />P <br />-- <br />- - <br />Standing dead <br />1 <br />2 <br />1 <br />3 <br />1 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />3 <br />1 <br />Litter <br />31 <br />34 <br />44 <br />33 <br />46 <br />34 <br />27 <br />36 <br />31 <br />32 <br />27 <br />38 <br />Bare soil <br />31 <br />17 <br />15 <br />19 <br />17 <br />25 <br />27 <br />23 <br />21 <br />15 <br />23 <br />22 <br />Rock <br />1 <br />TOTALS <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER <br />37 <br />47 <br />40(1) <br />45(6) <br />37(1) <br />41(4) <br />45(3) <br />38(2) <br />46(5) <br />51(3) <br />47(4) <br />39(2) <br />GROUND COVER (Litter+Rock+Veg+St. Dead) <br />69 <br />83 <br />85(1) <br />81(6) <br />83(1) <br />75(4) <br />73(3) <br />77(2) <br />79(5) <br />85(3) <br />77(4) <br />78(2) <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.) <br />18 <br />20 <br />29 <br />19 <br />19 <br />21 <br />23 <br />18 <br />17 <br />29 <br />19 <br />18 <br />(AVERAGE= 21.7 Std.Dev.= 4.1) <br />*P= Present within 1 m. on either side of cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered. <br />() =Data in parens. = 2nd hits. A 1st hit is top -most layer of vegetation, below 1st hit interceptions may exist other interceptions - these are 2nd <br />hits. <br />