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sampling, providing 0.20 percent total cover and 1.18 percent relative cover. Total cover <br />. values within and between the parcels within the 1995 reclamation were relatively <br />consistent. Of the six parcels sampled, the highest level of total vegetation cover was <br />found in Area 27 with a total cover of 54 percent Total vegetation cover in the remaining <br />parcels ranged from 30 to 48 percent, with significant representation by perennial wane <br />and cool season graminoids. Ambrosia psilostachya (ragweed) was the overall dominant <br />fort, though it was present in only 50 percent of the parcels. <br />Overall within the 1995 reclamation areas, Bromus tectorum, Bromus marginatus <br />(mountain brome), and Calamovilfa longifolia were co-dominant, with contnbutions of <br />6.80 percent mean (14.51% relative), 5.40 percent (13.33% relative), and 4.20 percent <br />(12.55% relative) respectively. Eight additional species contributed significantly to cover, <br />including Agropyron intermedium (imetmediate wheatgrass) with 3.60 percent mean <br />(8.63% relative), Sporobolus cryptandrus (sand dropseed) contributing 3.20 percent mean <br />total (7.06% relative), Agropyron smithii (western wheatgrass) contributing 2.80 percent <br />mean and 7.06 percent relative cover, Oryzopsis hymenoides (Indian ricegrass) providing <br />2.40 percent mean (6.67% relative), Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass) providing <br />2.20 percent mean cover (6.27% relative cover), Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grams) <br />with 2.20 and 5.88 percent mean and relative cover respectively, Bouteloua gracilis with <br />1.80 percent mean and 5.49 percern relative cover, and Agropyron dasystachyum <br />(thickspike wheatgrass) comrfbuting 1.20 percern mean cover (3.14% relative). <br />Vegetative litter (prior years growth, dead wood, and other biologic organic material) <br />• comprised 32.20 percent ground cover overall within the 1995 reclamation areas. Bare <br />soil comprised 28.80 percent of the ground cover. No rock or cryptogams were <br />encountered during the cover sampling in the 1995 reclamation areas. <br />3.1.2.2 Herbaceous Production <br />Overall total herbaceous production within the 1995 reclamation areas was 148.99 g/mz <br />(1328 lb/ac). Perennial grasses contributed the most to herbaceous production, 141.68 <br />g/m2 (1263 lb/ac), accounting for 95.1 percent of total herbaceous production. Annual <br />forts contributed the second highest productions with 3.16 g/m2 (28 Ib/ac), which was Z.1 <br />percent of the total mean herbaceous production. Perennial forts contributed 2.80 g/mz <br />(25 ]b/ac) or 1.9 percem of total herbaceous production. Annual grasses contributed the <br />least to annual herbaceous production in this area this year (1.35 g/m2 or 12 lb/ac). <br />Biennial forts did not contribute to total herbaceous production this season. <br />3.1.2.3 Species Composition <br />Cover sampling idemified four lifeforms and 20 species within the 1995 reclamation areas. <br />The lifeforms included thirteen species of perennial grass, one annual grass, no perennial <br />forts, four annual forts, one succulent, and one woody shrub. Of the species encountered <br />on the 1995 reclamation areas, fifteen were native and five were introduced. Perennial <br />species outnumbered annual species by fifteen to five. Cool season species were <br /> <br />CooroEnergyCompary Page 8 <br />200;5 Revegatatbn Manttoring Report <br />