REV102680

• Permit No: C1981044
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 10/30/2001
• Doc Name: VEGETATION BASELINE SURVEY AT RAG EMPIRE CORPS EMPIRE MINE PASTURE REFERENCE AREA
• Type & Sequence: TR33
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
fNTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................1
Figures
Figure A-1 Pasture Reference Area - Transect Locations ..................................................... A-4
Tables
Table A-1 Empire Mine; 50-meter Vegetation Cover Point-Intercept Transects;
Summary of 2001 Sample Adequacy Calculations .................................... ........ A-5
Table A-2 Summary of2001Relative Cover Values;
Empire Mine -Pasture Reference Area ...................................................... ........ A-6
Table A-3 Empire Mine; 0.5 square-meter Production Plots;
Summary of 2001 Sample Adequacy Calculations .................................... ........ A-6
Table A-4 Sutnmary of 2001 Relative Production Values;
Empire Mine -Pasture Reference Area ...................................................... ........ A-7
Table A-5 Empire Mine Pasture Reference Area; 2001 Vegetation
Cover Data .................................................................................................. ....... A-9
Table A-6 Empire Mine Pasture Reference Area; 2001 Herbaceous
Production Data .......................................................................................... ...... A-10
Table A-7 Empire Mine; 2001 Vegetation Species List .............................................. ...... A-12
Appendices
APPENDIX A Baseline Vegetation Sampling
Vegetation Sampling for 2001 .................................. .................................. A-1
Methods ..................................................................... .................................. A-1
Results ...................................................................... .................................. A-5
Vegetative Cover - 2001 .................................... .................................. A-5
Production - 2001 ............................................... .................................. A-6
Species Diversity - 2001 .................................... .................................. A-7
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