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CONVEYOR RECLAIMED AREA <br />• Plant Cover. The results obtained from the cover sampling of this site aze presented in Table 3, <br />Conveyor Reclaimed Area Plant Cover. This summary documents that a total of 42 different <br />plant species were encountered in the cover sampling of this site. The total plant cover found on <br />this site was found to average 55.20 percent, and allowable plant cover was determined it was <br />found to average 48.65 percent. Annual grasses accounted for 1.73 percent of the total plant <br />cover on this site while annual and biennial forbs accounted for 9.42 percent of the total cover on <br />this site. Whitetop, a listed noxious weed was encountered in one transect and accounted for a <br />total of 0.20 percent of the total cover on this site. Examination of Table 2, Edna Mine Sample <br />Adequacy Calculations, reveals that the allowable plant cover on this site was sampled to the 90 <br />percent confidence interval. <br />The dominate plant species growing on this site was found to be Western Yarrow, which <br />accounted for 21.87 percent of the total vegetation growing on this reclaimed site, while the next <br />most common species found was Rocky Mountain Penstemon, which accounts for 7.25 percent <br />of the total cover growing on this site. Perennial forb cover on this site was found to be higher <br />than was the cover of perennial grasses. <br />Upon comparing the plant cover data collected from this site from the 1998 revegetation <br />monitoring effort it can be determined that there has been an increase in total plant cover. The <br />average total plant cover in 1998 was found to average 44.27 percent while in 1999 this value <br />was found to equal 55.20 percent. A total of 43 total plant species were encountered in the I S <br />• transects sampled in 1998, while in 1999 a total of 42 different plant species were encountered. <br />Of interest in the fact that in 1998 Yellow Sweetclover accounted for 21.23 percent of the total <br />plant cover while in 1999, this value had declined to only 2.13 percent. In terms of absolute <br />cover, Western Yarrow increased in cover from 9.4 percent in 1998 to 12.07 percent in 1999. In <br />a similaz manner, in 1998 noxious weeds accounted for 3.16 percent of the total plant cover on <br />this site while in 1999 this value was only 2.65 percent of the total cover. This decline suggests <br />that the weed control program being practiced by the Edna Mine appears to be controlling the <br />tazgeted noxious weeds. <br />MOFFAT RECLAIMED AREA <br />Plant Cover. The results obtained from the cover sampling of this site are presented in Table 4, <br />Moffat Reclaimed Area Plant Cover. A total of 52 different plant species were encountered in <br />the cover sampling of this site. The overall average total plant cover was determined to equal <br />52.60 percent, and the allowable plant cover was determined to equa148.74 percent. Annuals <br />and biennials at this location accounted for a total of 14.07 percent of the relative cover on this <br />reclaimed area. In addition, a listed noxious weed, Whitetop which appeazs to have been <br />introduced on this site either through contaminated mulch or seed was encountered in one hit on <br />one of the cover transects. Examination of Table 2, Edna Mine Sample Adequacy Calculations, <br />reveals that allowable plant cover was achieved in the cover sampling of this site. <br />The dominate plant species contributing to the plant cover on this site was determined to be the <br />• rhizomatous grass, Kentucky Bluegrass, which contributed 26.24 percent of the relative cover on <br />