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Table 3. Cover Data - Sagebrush Affected Area, Sage Creek Mine Baseline, <br />Sage Creek Coal Company, Routt County, CO - 2008 <br />• PLANT SPECIES <br />• <br />/ 1 <br />I <br />Page 6 of 6 <br />Percent Foliar Cover' <br />- -- Sample Number-- - <br />9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Bromopsis inermis <br />4 <br />P <br />1 <br />1(1) <br />P <br />Dactylis glomerata <br />Phleum pratense <br />P <br />P <br />P <br />P <br />P <br />P <br />Poa pratensis <br />P <br />Thinopyrum intermedium <br />37(4) <br />12(3) <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) <br />37(4) <br />4 <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />P <br />1 <br />1(1) <br />- <br />12(3) <br />P <br />P <br />- -- <br />P <br />- -- <br />NATIVE SHRUBS <br />Amelanchieralnifolia <br />P <br />P <br />(1) <br />P <br />Chrysothamnus nauseosus <br />8 <br />1 <br />P <br />P <br />P <br />P <br />Chrysothamnus parryi <br />6 <br />Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus <br />9 <br />P <br />P <br />(1) <br />P <br />P <br />2(1) <br />P <br />P <br />Padus virginiana ssp. melanocarpa <br />P <br />Seriphidium canum <br />2 <br />P <br />8 <br />Seriphidium tridentatum <br />20 <br />2 <br />7 <br />4 <br />31 <br />32 <br />28 <br />30 <br />28(2) <br />27 <br />20(2) <br />7 <br />3 <br />3 <br />Symphoricarpos rotundifolius <br />1 <br />4 <br />9 <br />1(1) <br />3 <br />1 <br />20 <br />9(1) <br />6 <br />2 <br />1 <br />TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS <br />20 <br />11 <br />11 <br />22 <br />35(1) <br />32 <br />31(1) <br />39 <br />28(2) <br />47(1) <br />31(4) <br />13 <br />5 <br />10 <br />BRYOPHYTES <br />Moss <br />1 <br />TOTAL BRYOPHYTES <br />- -- <br />--- <br />- -- <br />--- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />1 <br />- -- <br />- -- <br />Standing dead <br />2 <br />2 <br />1 <br />2 <br />4 <br />4 <br />5 <br />3 <br />5 <br />5 <br />4 <br />4 <br />Litter <br />33 <br />40 <br />42 <br />37 <br />11 <br />12 <br />30 <br />20 <br />19 <br />10 <br />26 <br />30 <br />20 <br />26 <br />Bare soil <br />6 <br />18 <br />13 <br />18 <br />19 <br />41 <br />11 <br />9 <br />29 <br />6 <br />14 <br />15 <br />23 <br />21 <br />Rock <br />2 <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 />100 <br />100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER <br />59(5) <br />40(1) <br />45 <br />44(3) <br />68(9) <br />41(2) <br />55(7) <br />66(5) <br />49(5) <br />79(8) <br />55(9) <br />51(7) <br />57(5) <br />49(3) <br />GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St.Dead) <br />94(5) <br />82(1) <br />87 <br />82(3) <br />81(9) <br />59(2) <br />89(7) <br />91(5) <br />71(5) <br />94(8) <br />86(9) <br />85(7) <br />77(5) <br />79(3) <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.) <br />22 <br />32 <br />20 <br />23 <br />35 <br />22 <br />31 <br />33 <br />29 <br />35 <br />28 <br />26 <br />31 <br />25 <br />(AVERAGE= 28.1 Std.Dev.= 4.9) <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 />