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INPfd~DUCI'ION <br />r/~ <br />Vegetation baseline studies were initiated in May, 1979 at Peabody Coal <br />Caiy~any's Seneca II Mine located 10 miles southeast of Hayden, Routt <br />County, Colorado. The study area encca~assed approximately 2700 acres <br />at elevations ranging from 6700 to 8000 ft. The objectives of the study <br />included: <br />1. Measurement of baseline vegetation conditions. <br />2. Selection of reference (control) plots in accordance with 30 CER <br />816.116 and as partial fulfill~rent of 30 CFR 779.19 of the <br />D.O.I. Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and F3~forcerrent <br />Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations Permanent <br />Regulatory Program. Selection of control plots was also in <br />compliance with the proposed Colorado Permanent Regulatory <br />Progran of the Colorado blined Land Reclamation Board (C[~II~RB) . <br />3. Identification and measurement of vegetative or environmental <br />situations such as areas of high soil selenium or noxious <br />weeds (as define3 by the Colorado Noxious Weed Control Act) <br />that might affect the potential success of reclamation practices. <br />4. Identification of any threatened, rare, or endangered plant <br />species as described in 30 CFR 816.97 (b) of the D.O.I. Office <br />of Surface Mining, Reclamation and FhforcemPnt Surface Coal <br />Mining and Reclamation Operations Permanent Regulatory Program <br />or described by any other applicable federal or state laws, <br />rules and regulations governing threatened, rare, or endangered <br />plant species. <br />Vegetation parameters measured included production, cover, frequency, <br />species composition, shrub height, tree density, tree daninance (basal <br />area), shrub and tree age, shrub density and Vegetation type distribution. <br />~• <br />