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• Reference Area Monitoring. The reference areas will be periodicelty monitored using similar methods, <br />parameters, and intensities as specified under Revegetation Monitoring. <br />Annual Reporting <br />The Annual ReGamation Report will be submitted by March 30 of each year and will report those items <br />required by 2.04.13(1). Additionally, the following information will be inGuded: <br />1. Annual herbicide applications and weed and pest control measures <br />2. Alfalfa control monitoring/Wadge Pasture grazing {Appendix 13~) <br />3. Annual topsoil balance reporting <br />4. Revegetation monitoring <br />5. Wildlife monitoring (when conducted) <br />6. Results of sediment pond surveys (when conducted) <br />7. As-built designs for stoGc tanks censtruced during the reporting year <br />Testing for Successful ReGamation <br />• The following discussion details the applicable success criteria, methods to be used in measurement of <br />parameters, comparisons to be made between reGaimed and undisturbed areas and statistical tests to be <br />performed. <br />Use of Reference Areas <br />Baseline vegetation studies conduced in 1979 and 1980 identified two primary vegetation types: upland <br />sagebrush and mixed brush/aspen. The aspen type was considered a subtype of the mixed brush and <br />contained similar understory vegetation. See Tab 10, Vegetation Baseline Report, for a more detailed <br />discussion and 6chibR 10-1 for vegetation mapping and reference area !options. <br />Reference areas reflecing the above two vegetation types were established during baseline studies. The <br />sagebrush reference area (referred to as upland sagebrush in earlier studies) covers approximately 4.8 <br />acres in the far southern portion of the permit area. The mountain brush reference area (referred to as mixed <br />brush/aspen in earlier studies) is located on 4.7 acres in an area west of the permit area. Aspen is <br />• represented in the mountain brush community. Both reference areas have been protected from mining- <br />related disturbance and have been property managed according to the postmining land use. <br />18-31 Revised 0!15/93 <br />