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Spedes Density: A measure of the number of species per 100 sq.m. determined at the cover sampling • <br />locations will be made and refereed to as "Species Density." <br />Samolinp Methods <br />Cover. Cover will be measured by the point-intercept method. The point-intercept ttansect will be 50 <br />meters long with 100 points taken. <br />Production: Production data will be collected through use of the harvest method. All herbaceous <br />biomass produced during the current yeaz within a vertical projection of the 0.5 sq.m. sample plot will <br />be harvested. Clipped material will be dried at 105 degrees C and weighed to the neazest 0.1 gm <br />Resulting oven-dry weights will be presented as gm/0.5 sq.m. and lbs/ac. <br />Woody Plant Density; Woody plants rooted within 2 x 50 meter plots will be named by Spedes. <br />Clonal Spedes such as mountain snowberry will have nodes of more concentrated stem emergence <br />counted as individuals as was done during baseline surveys of woody plant density. <br />Species List The Spedes list will be developed from observations made during quantitative sampling <br />during the middle of the growing season. During years of bond release sampling, additional eazly <br />spring observations of the reclaimed azea pazcels involved will be made to fully document spring <br />ephemeral Spedes. <br />Spedes Density: A list of all Spedes present within one meter to either side of the 50 meter cover <br />measurement transect will be compiled. The resulting number of Spedes observed per 100 sq.m. will <br />be refereed to as `5pedes Density." <br />Sampling_Intensity. Because of the varying degree of disturbance or size of tedaimed azeas <br />from yeaz to yeaz, a reclaimed sampling area size cannot be spedFied. Therefore, a minimum of <br />one (1) sample for each ten (10) acres of reclaimed area will be located in each block of <br />reclamation or until sample adequacy is achieved. Generally, at least IS samples are collected <br />unless the sampled block is small. A pazticular block will be identified by yeaz of seeding. <br />Sampling locations will generally be established through the use of random point selection. <br />This method may be modified when it becomes appazent that a more even distribution or <br />allocation of sampling points would be desirable, particulazly if the tedamation block is split • <br />into a number of subunits. Since the monitoring data are intended for evaluation of <br />reclamation methods and performance of revegetation stands and not For strict statistical <br />TR FO 42 <br />