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3.1.4 1998 RESEEDED OR 1NTERSEEDED AREAS <br />The 1998 reseeded or interseeded areas sampled this year encompass 34 acres of <br />reclamation in five distinct azeas within the Keenesburg Mme permit area. The areas <br />include Area 2, an area immediately west of the dugout, Areas 7 and 10, two areas south <br />and east of the central 1987 area, Area 15, west of A pit and bordered on the west and <br />south by undisturbed range, and Area 26, south of the sedimerrt pond. Vegetation cover <br />transacts and herbaceous production quadrats were distributed within the five areas based <br />on size. The 1998 reseeded or interseeded areas range from flat (Areas 2, ?) to north and <br />south sloping (Areas 15 and 10, respectively). Reseeding or interseeding with the <br />permanent seed mix took place during the autumn of 1998 within these areas with the goal <br />of increasing perennial graminoid representation. Area 10 was burned in the spring of <br />2003 to control a stand ofBromus tectorum. Regrowth by warm season perennial grasses <br />had begun, but had been somewhat hampered by a lack of mid-season precipitation <br />Rather than bias the sampling by including the low cover and production area, Area 10 <br />was omitted from sampling this season. Specific sampling information for the 1998 <br />reseeded or interseeded areas is contained in Tables 8 and 9. <br />3.1.4.1 Vegetation Cover <br />Total vegetation cover of the 1998 reseeded or imerseeded areas was 40.67 percent. <br />Graminoids provided 29.67 percent mean cover (76.73% relative cover), forts accourned <br />for 10.33 percent mean cover (22A1% relative cover), one succulent wmdbuted 0.33 <br />percent mean and 0.63 percent relative cover, and one shrub contributed 0.33 percent <br />mean and 0.63 percert relative cover. Total cover values were variable between the <br />individual areas within the 1998 reseeded or interseeded areas, The lowest total vegetation <br />. cover of the parcels sampled was found in Area 2 (22%) and the highest weer was <br />enwuntered in Area 15 (58%). Kochia scoparia and Helianthus amttrus were <br />encountered in all the reseeded or imerseeded azea parcels, with Kochia scoparia in 83 <br />percent of all transacts and Helianthus annuus found in 67 percent of all transacts. <br />Bromus tectorum was enwuntered in three of the four parcels and in 83 percent of all <br />transacts. <br />Within the 1998 reseeded or imerseeded areas, Bromus rectorum accounted for the <br />highest overall rover with 15.67 percent mean rover and 42.77 percent relative rover. The <br />wol season annual fort Kochia scoparia wntributed the sewnd highest cover values with <br />8.Q0 percent mean cover and 17.61 percent relative cover. Five additional species <br />contributed significantly to rover; Sparobolus cryptandnrs with 4.00 percent mean rover <br />(9.43% relative cover), Agrapyron intermedium wntributed 3.00 percem mean and 6.92 <br />percent relative cover, Bauteloua curtipendula provided 2.00 percertt mean total cover <br />and b.29 percent relative cover, Calarttavilfa langifolia with 1.33 percent mean and 3.77 <br />percent relative cover, and Helianthus anmrus contributed 1.67 percent mean rover <br />(3.14% relative cover). <br />Cooro Energy Compaty Page 11 <br />2003 Reregetatbn Monitoring Report <br />