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FACILITIES RECLAIMED AREA <br />• Plant Cover. The results obtained from the twenty cover transects evaluated in this reclaimed <br />area aze presented in Table 8, Facilities Reclaimed Area Plant Cover. Since these reclamation <br />azea consists of various kinds of disturbance, ranging from major mine haul roads, minor access <br />roads, power line corridors and staging azea disturbance there is considerable variability in the <br />uniformity of vegetation established on these sites. In addition, it appears that the age of the <br />vazious reclamation seeding efforts vary, with there being considerable differences in the kinds <br />and types of reclamation practiced on these areas. For example, the revegetation efforts <br />associated with the power line corridor and vazious minor access roads, is often indistinguishable <br />from the revegetation efforts in the adjacent areas, while the most recent revegetation efforts <br />associated with the North Haulroad, Lower Moffat Haulroad, North Haulroad and Powder <br />Magazine sites are very different than the previously described azeas. For example, in many <br />azeas, the portion of the power line corridor to the east of the North Haulroad, can be observed in <br />the field with great difficulty by textural changes in the vegetation and in some azeas there is no <br />textural difference in the vegetation between this azea and the adjacent reclaimed areas. <br />However, along the above mentioned haulroads, there are very pronounced textural differences in <br />the vegetation between the revegetation azeas corresponding to these azeas and the adjacent older <br />reclaimed azeas. <br />Total plant cover on this area was found to average 32.40 percent while allowable plant cover <br />was found to average 28.79 percent. As can be observed from the cover values there was <br />considerable variability in the plant cover on the different sites samples, partially for the reasons <br />• outlined above. After the sampling of the twenty cover transects evaluated in this monitoring <br />effort, sample adequacy was determined to be 88.5 transects (Table 2, Edna Mine Sample <br />Adequacy Calculations). <br />The most dominate plant species growing on these sites was Smooth Bromegrass and <br />Intermediate Wheatgrass. Perennial grasses accounted for 68.18 percent of the total relative <br />cover found on these sites. Perennial forbs, chiefly Western Yarrow and Alfalfa, accounted for <br />19.10 percent of the total relative cover found on these sites. <br />SAGEBRUSH-SNOWBERRY REFERENCE AREA <br />Plant Cover. The results obtained from the 15 cover transects sampled at this site aze presented <br />in Table 9, Sagebrush-Snowbeny Reference Area Plant Cover. Examination of the data <br />collected indicate that a total of 46 different plant species were encountered in the sample of this <br />site, including 14 perennial grasses, 23 forbs and 9 different shrub species. Sample adequacy <br />was obtained with only 1.8 transects on this site (Table 2, Edna Mine Sample Adequacy <br />Calculations). <br />The dominate plants on this site were Mountain Big Sagebrush and Mountain Snowberry, which <br />contributed 19.24 and 19.04 percent, respectively, of the relative cover on this site (Table 9, <br />Sagebrush-Snowbeny Reference Area). The dominate grass found in this area was Kentucky <br />Bluegrass, which contributed 16.01 percent of the relative cover found on this site. Overall, this <br />• site had very little cover produced by annuals, biennials or noxious weeds, although they were <br />