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woody plants as was predicted in the original permit application. <br />Woody plant densities on the 1987 Reclamation Seeding from the 1991 <br />sampling effort resulted in an average of 1.70 woody plants or 0 shrubs per 50 <br />square meters (Table 7, Woody Plant Density for 1987 Seeding). This value <br />compares with an average of 1.0 woody plants or 0.6 shrubs per 50 square <br />meters obtained from this site from the 1989 sampling. When the present <br />vegetative characteristics of this site are compared with those associated with <br />the 1983 Reclamation Seeding at a similar age, it is obvious that the woody <br />plant densities on this more recently reclaimed site are higher than those <br />associated with the older site at a comparable age. The 1987 site yielded 1.70 <br />woody plants per 50 square meters during its fourth growing season while the <br />1983 site produced only 0.4 woody plants per 50 square meters during its fourth <br />growing season. These data suggest that the revegetation methods presently <br />employed at the Southfield Mine are more compatible with the revegetation <br />standards of woody plant densities than were those associated with 1983 <br />reclamation efforts. <br />8 <br />