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

Table 5. Cover Data - CRP /Improved Pasture Affected Area, Sage Creek Mine Baseline, Page 4 of 4
Sage Creek Coal Company, Routt County, CO - 2008
• PLANT SPECIES
•
Percent Foliar Cover*
- -- Sample Number-- -
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
NATIVE PERENNIAL FORBS (cont.)
Veronica catenata
P
Vicia americana
TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL FORBS
3
P
3
P
P
P
P
P
3
10
P
P
1(1)
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL FORBS
Astragalus cicer
P
3
1
P
P
Breea arvensis
1(1)
P
P
P
Medicago sativa
P
P
P
P
1
P
P
P
Taraxacum officinale
P
P
P
P
1
P
P
P
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL FORBS
1(1)
P
3
P
P
P
2
P
P
1
P
P
P
NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Achnatherum lettermanii
P
P
Achnatherum nelsonii
Ceratochloa carinata var marginate
Ceratochloa polyantha
P
Critesion jubatum
Elymus elymoides
P
Elymus longifolius
P
Elymus trachycaulus
P
Leymus cinereus
1
Poa agassizensis
2
1
9
3
P
2
7
7
3
4
Poa ampla
P
P
P
Poa compressa
X agrositanion saundersii
P
TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c)
2
1
9
3
- --
- --
1
P
2
7
7
3
4
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Bromopsis inermis
P
29
7
8
22(2)
31
Elytrigia repens
Phleum pratense
2
P
2
2
P
2
P
Thinopyrum intermedium
42
46
29(1)
28
6
23
18
8
36(1)
12
P
36(1)
35
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c)
44
46
31(1)
30
35
30
26
30(2)
36(1)
14
31
36(1)
35
NATIVE SHRUBS
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
P
Seriphidium canum
Seriphidium tridentatum
P
4(1)
TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS
P
- --
--
- --
- --
- --
- --
- --
- --
- --
4(1)
- --
Standing dead
1
2
1
8
1
1
3
Litter
41
41
33
40
52
39
32
34
47
14
11
45
41
Bare soil
8
11
19
24
11
22
38
34
12
51
39
4
16
Rock
1
TOTALS
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
TOTAL VEGETATION COVER
50(1)
48
48(2)
34
35
31
30
32(2)
41(1)
35
49(2)
50(3)
40(1)
GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St.Dead)
92(1)
89
81(2)
76
89
78
62
66(2)
88(1)
49
61(2)
96(3)
84(1)
SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.)
25
15
25
18
7
10
12
14
20
26
11
23
21
(AVERAGE= 16.9 Std.Dev.= 6.9)
*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.