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Edna Mine Vegetation Final Bond Release Monitoring 2005-2006 <br />Moffat Out-of-Pit spoil area. <br />Vegetation cover is the only final bond release parameter that must be satisfied <br />by the West Ridge: Previously Disturbed area and Moffat: Previously Disturbed <br />Area. The vegetation cover standard for these areas is 47% based on <br />monitoring conducted prior to re-disturbance by mining. <br />Voluntary diversity goal for West Ridge and Moffat previously disturbed lands is <br />graminoids 90%, fortis 5% and trees/shrubs 5%. The final vegetation bond <br />release monitoring report will include an evaluation of life form distribution. <br />NOTE: This plant life form distribution is a voluntary goal and failure to meet it <br />will not prevent final vegetation bond release. <br />MOFFAT AREA: TOPSOILED <br />Moffat Area reclamation that received topsoil will have weighted averages <br />determined for herbaceous cover and production liability release standards. <br />Premining plant community mapping and the actual disturbance area will be used <br />to determine the weighting factors. This will be accomplished by determining the <br />acreage within the disturbed area that was in either snowberry sage or <br />oak mountain shrub vegetation community types. Percentages values will be <br />calculated using the acres of disturbance within these two vegetation <br />communities. These percentages will be used to weight the average herbaceous <br />cover and production values for their respective reference areas and set the <br />vegetation parameter bond release standard. <br />Recommended standards for diversity of herbaceous, woody plants and overall <br />revegetation community have been established and will be used to describe <br />dominance, species numbers and utility. Herbaceous Species Diversity requires <br />the presence of at least five perennial herbaceous species with relative <br />importance of each species equal to or greater than 3% and less than 40%. <br />Combined relative importance of the 5 species will not exceed 75%. If 6 or more <br />Habitat Management, Inc. 4 4/8/2025 <br />