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AppendixA-Vegetation Sampling jar 2003 <br />TABLE A-1 <br />GOLDEN EAGLE MINE <br />VEGETATION COVER POINT-INTERCEPT TRANSECTS <br />Mean Absolute Actual Computed <br />Vegetation Cover Standard Sample Adequate <br />Area (percent) Deviation Size Sample Size <br />AVF Reference Area 36.53 1.98 15 1.79 <br />AVF Reclaimed Area 39.87 1.58 15 1.35 <br />Rangeland Reference Area 19.73 1.55 15 4.48 <br />Rangeland Reclaimed Area 32.53 1.44 15 1.41 <br />Analysis of vegetative cover to determine revegetation success is based on live "hits" on approved <br />species. Results from the summer of 2005 sampling event show that mean absolute vegetation cover is <br />higher on the AVF Reclaimed Area (39.87 percent) than on the AVF Reference Area (36.53 percent). <br />Mean vegetative cover by approved species was also greater on the AVF Reclaimed Area (35.20 percent) <br />than on the AVF Reference Area (29.20 percent). <br />Mean absolute vegetation cover is significantly higher on the Rangeland Reclaimed Area (32.53 percent) <br />than on the Rangeland Reference Area (19.73 percent). Mean vegetative cover by approved species was <br />also greater on the Rangeland Reclaimed Area (24.27 percent) than on the Rangeland Reference Area <br />(18.13 percent). <br />Vegetative cover results from the 2005 sampling event satisfy the requirements stipulated in the permit. <br />Tables A-4, A-6, A-8, and A-10 display the results of Ure 2005 sampling event for vegetative cover, <br />including absolute cover and relative cover, on each sampling area. <br />Production - 2005 <br />Determination of sample adequacy in the field was based on the "wet weights" of clipped vegetation <br />(Table A-2). Adequacy was reached wiW 15 transects on the AVF Reference Area and AVF Reclaimed <br />Area by averaging the production values for six quadrats collected along each transect. <br />Sample adequacy was not achieved on the Rangeland Reference Area or the Rangeland Reclaimed Area <br />when utilizing the same methodology, or when each quadrat was counted as an individual sample. <br />Sampling ceased on each rangeland area upon completion of the fifteenth transect (90 total quadrats <br />collected). <br />292 - Goldrn Fagle Phase III (10.07.05) A~ <br />