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Empire Eagle Mine Vegetation Final Bond Release Monitoring 2005-2006 <br />OVERVIEW <br />This document contains a description of the vegetation monitoring plan for final <br />bond release for specific areas at the Eagle Empire Mine. This vegetation <br />monitoring plan follows the basic requirements established for Eagle Empire <br />Mine in the active DMG permit. This document includes the following: <br />• A summary of bonded areas and their related vegetation standards. <br />• Descriptions of vegetation monitoring methods for cover, production, <br />woody stem density and diversity and other miscellaneous vegetation <br />observations that will be pertormed during monitoring. <br />• Overview of statistical testing inGuding additional options for statistical <br />comparisons of vegetation parameters between reclaimed and reference <br />areas. <br />• Random sample start points for the reference areas and recaimed lands <br />that require sampling. <br />The vegetation final bond release monitoring described in this proposal is <br />planned to commence during the 2005 growing season. <br />SUMMARY OF BONDED AREAS 8 VEGETATION FINAL BOND <br />RELEASE STANDARDS <br />As of August 2005 vegetation performance liabilities and bond remained on the <br />reclaimed areas in Table 1: Eagle Empire Mine Bonded Reclaimed Areas & <br />Vegetation Performance Standards. The location of logical bond release units <br />and reference areas is depicted on Map 1: Vegetation Bond Release Units & <br />Reference Areas-Final Vegetation Bond Release Monitoring-2005 & 2006. The <br />acres indicated in the table for each reGamation unit are approximate. Special <br />wnsiderations regarding bond release requirements are presented below by <br />reclaimed area. <br />Habitat Management, Inc. 1 6/7/2006 <br /> <br />