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percent and the four most dominant plants were Western Yarrow, Alfalfa, Yellow Sweetclover <br />and Lewis Flax which contributed 35.09, 9.63, 8.39 and 8.07 percent, respectively, of the total <br />relative plant cover on this site. In the 2005 sampling of this site, total plant cover averaged <br />40.80 percent and litter cover averaged 22.60 percent. <br />The locations of the 15 cover sampled on the main south block of this reclaimed area aze shown <br />on Map 4, 1995 & 1999 Reclamation -Vegetation Transect Location Map. Copies of the <br />individual field data sheets for the plant cover sampling of this site aze found in Appendix I - <br />Copies of 1995 Reclamation -Plant Cover Field Data Sheets. The sample adequacy calculations <br />in Table 2, Marr Mine Sample Adequacy Calculations, document that the number of samples <br />required to describe this site at the 90 percent confidence interval was 9.2. <br />Production. The results of the 30 production transects sampled on this area are summarized in <br />Table 11, 1995 Reclamation -Production. This table shows that the average total herbaceous <br />forage production on this site equaled 19.18 g/1/4 m2 or 683.6 pounds of air dry-dry forage per <br />acre. Perennial grasses contributed 17.06 gf l/4 m' or 88.95 percent of the herbaceous forage <br />produced on this area. Perennial forbs, contributed 1.97 g/1/4 mZ or 10.27 percent of the <br />herbaceous forage production on this area. Annuals, contributed 0.15 g/1/4 m2 or 0.78 percent of <br />the herbaceous forage production on this area. <br />When ESCO sampled this site in 1999, they reported that the total herbaceous production <br />averaged 19.15 g/1/4 m2 or 682.5 pounds of air dry-dry forage per acre. In 2005, the average <br />total herbaceous forage production on this site equaled 25.09 g/1/4 mZ or 894.2 pounds of air <br />• dry-dry forage per acre. <br />The revegetation forage production standard for this area is 6.11 g/1/4m2 or 217.8 pounds of air- <br />dry forage per acre. Since this site yielded 25.09 g/1/4mZ or 894.2 pounds of air dry-dry forage <br />per acre when sampled in 2005 and 19.15 g/1/4 m2 or 682.5 pounds of airdry-dry forage per <br />acre in 2006, these data suggest that this area currently and historically satisfies the revegetation <br />success standard with respect to total herbaceous forage production. <br />The locations of the 30 production transects sampled for the main reclamation block for this site <br />in 2005 are shown on Map 4, 1995 & 1999 Reclamation -Vegetation Transect Location Map. <br />For that block located to the north of Jackson County Road # 29, see Map 5, 1996 Reclamation - <br />Vegetation Transect Location Map and for that narrow strip east of the existing access road, see <br />Map 3, Pre-1986 Reclamation -Vegetation Transect Location Map. Copies of the individual <br />field data sheets for the forage production sampling of this site are found in Appendix J -Copies <br />of 1995 Reclamation -Production Field Data Sheets. The sample adequacy calculations in Table <br />2, Man Mine Sample Adequacy Calculations, document that the number of samples required to <br />describe this site at the 90 percent confidence interval was 39.4 transects. However, since the <br />production on the reclaimed site exceeds the revegetation success standard, sample adequacy <br />was achieved with 30 transacts. <br />Sbrub Density. The shrub density counts obtained from the 30 belt transacts sampled in this <br />• area are summazized in Table 12,1995 Reclamation -Shrub Density. The average shrub density <br />12 <br />