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Section 816.116 (d) Continued. <br />(2) Areas planted with a mixture of herbaceous and wood ;• species shall <br />sustain a herbaceous vegetative ground cover of 70 percent for 5 full <br />consecutive years and 400 woody plants per acre after 5 years. On steep <br />slopes, the minimum number of woody plants shall be 600 per acre. <br />(3) For purposes of this Section, herbaceous species means grasses, <br />legumes, and norleguminous forbs; woody plants means woody shrubs, trees <br />and vines; and ground cover means the area of ground covered by the <br />combined aerial parts of vegetation. and the litter that is produced <br />naturally onsite, expressed as a percentage of the total area of measure- <br />ment. <br />Energy Mines No. 1 and 2 and Eckman Park exceed the acreage maximum <br />of 40 acres and do not meet the precipitation minimum of 26 inches <br />average annual precipitation set forth in paragraph (d)(1)(2)(3). <br />Consequently, no comments have been addressed to this paragraph. <br />• <br />Section 816.117 Revegetation: Tree and shrub stocking for <br />forest land. <br />This Section sets forth (crest resource conservation standards .for <br />reforestation operations to ensure that a cover of commercial tree <br />species, non-commercial tree species, shrubs or Half-shrubs, sufficient <br />for adequate use of the availz^ie growing space, is established after <br />surface :nixing activities. <br />(a) StocY.ing, i. e. the number of stems per unit area, wi L be used to <br />determine the degree to which lace is occupied by rre_1-di=_tributed, <br />counta'ole trees, shrubs or half-shrubs. <br />(i) Root crown or root sprouts over 1 foot in Height shall count as one <br />toward meeting the stocking requirements. i•ihere multiple stems occur <br />only the tallest stem will be counted. <br />• <br />816-162 <br />