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• 2.8 Tlme of Sempltng • <br />Vegetation cover data were collected in July end early August 1980, <br />production plots clipped in July and August 1980, and density date collected <br />in July, August, end September 19f30. <br />2.9 Agency Coordination <br />The ecological eonsultent met with CMLR personnel and the client in <br />July 1980 to develop plans for conducting a baseline inventory and esteb- <br />Ilshing reference areas es required by the Colorado Surface Coal Mining <br />Reclamation Act. Quantitative sampling procedures were also presented <br />end discussed and guidance provided by agency personnel with respect to <br />establishing reference areas. See Johnson letter of 4 September 1980 to <br />Mr. Jim Herron as signed end returned. The agency personnel provided <br />direction with respect to what vegetation types had sufficient disturbance <br />to merit quantitative sampling; which vegetation types were to have reference <br />areas; end what constituted a reference area. <br />It was agreed that quantitative sampling should occur in any vege- <br />tation type with disturbance exceeding 1.65 acres. Thus, quantitative <br />sampling was conducted in four vegetation types in erees adjacent to <br />existing disturbance and in erees to be disturbed in the future. Vegetation <br />• types Sampled included: Riparian Woodland, Mountain Shrublend - Dry Phase, <br />Mixed Coniferous Forest, end Aspen forest. A Mountain Shrublend - Moist <br />Phase was qualitatively described es disturbance is less than 1.65 acres. <br />Agency personnel requested that a statistically valid reference Brea be <br />established only for the Mountain Shrublend - Dry Phase. The data collected <br />along existing disturbance will provide the reclamation success standard <br />for all other vegetation types. <br />A second meeting of the same group was held on 10 November 1980 To <br />discuss Semple adequacy in the Mountain Shrublend - Dry Phase reference <br />area. Mr. Jim Herron agreed that 157 production samples was adequate even <br />though sample adequacy was not attained. See Mr. Jim Herron's letter of <br />12 November 1980 to Mr. Joseph Feldstein of Gibbs S Hill, Inc. <br /> <br />-6- <br />