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locations of the 30 production transects are shown on Map 1, Southfield Mine Area -Vegetation <br />Transect Location Map. Copies of the original field data sheets for this area are found in <br />Appendix E -Copies Corley Reclamation -Production -Field Data Sheets. <br />Shrub Density. The shrub density counts obtained from the 30 belt transects taken in this azea <br />aze summarized in Table 8, Corley Reclamation -Shrub Density. The average shrub density was <br />determined to equa136.17 shrubs per one hundred square meters or 1,463,8 shrubs per acre. <br />Rubber Rabbitbrush was the most commonly encountered shrub. This area has not revegetation <br />shrub density success standazd. <br />The locations of the 30 shrub density transects sampled on this site are shown on Map 1, <br />Southfield Mine Area -Vegetation Transect Location Map. Copies of the individual field data <br />are found in Appendix F -Copies of Corley Reclamation -Shrub Density -Field Data Sheets. <br />The sample adequacy calculations in Table 2, Southfield Mine Sample Adequacy Calculations, <br />document that the number of samples required to characterize this site with respect to shrub <br />density at the 90 percent confidence interval was 40.9 transects. <br />Species Diversity. The percent relative composition or cover values in Table 6, Corley <br />Reclamation -Plant Cover, document that the four most dominant plant species growing on this <br />reclaimed site contributed a total of 59.06 percent of the total relative cover found on this site. <br />This is well within the maximum value of 80 percent required by the Permit. The two most <br />dominant warm season grass species contributed a total of 10.34 percent of the total relative <br />• cover on this reclaimed site, which is well below the 50 percent required by the Pemmt. These <br />revegetation monitoring data from this site confirm that the species diversity standazd for this <br />reclaimed site in 2006 are not satisfied. <br />LOADOUT RECLAMATION <br />Plant Cover. The results obtained from the sampling of the 15 plant cover transects on this site <br />are presented in Table 9, Loadout Reclamation -Plant Cover. Total plant cover on this site <br />averaged 44.67 percent and litter averaged 16.80 percent (Table 9, Loadout Reclamation -Plant <br />Cover). <br />Perennial grasses dominated the seeded vegetation on this site contributing 24.07 percent of the <br />vegetative cover or 53.88 percent of the total relative cover on this site. Sand Dropseed and Blue <br />Grama were the most commonly encountered grasses, contributing 34.92 and 11.34 percent, <br />respectively, of the total relative cover found on this site. Perennial forbs contributed 5.40 <br />percent of the total plant cover and 12.09 percent of the total relative cover on this site. Western <br />Ragweed was the most commonly encountered perennial forb on this site, contributing 9.25 <br />percent of the total relative cover. Shrubs and subshrubs contributed 6.42 percent of the total <br />relative cover on this site. Fourwing Saltbush was the most commonly encountered shrub, <br />contributing 4.33 percent of the total relative cover on this reclaimed site. Annuals and biennials <br />contributed 27.16 percent of the total relative cover on this site. Annual forbs, consisting <br />primarily of Russian thistle, Summer-cypress and Prostrate Spurge, contributing 14.02, 6.72 and <br />6.27 percent, respectively, of the total relative cover on this site. <br />to <br />