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• Seasonality of the reference azea was dominated by cool season species (13 species), but also included warm season and deciduous species. Graminoids were neazly evenly split between cool (four species) and warm (three species) season species. Cool season fort species outnumbered warm season forb species by nine to one. The shrub species was deciduous. ' 1985 RECLAMATION AREA The 1985 Reclamation Area encompasses approximately 23 acres of reclaimed pit in the north central area of the Keenesburg Mine permit area. The 1985 Reclamation Area is composed of two pazcels (west and east) separated by a north-south haul road ' corridor. This area is nearly flat with a gentle slope (< 1 °) to the north and east. Reclamation and coincident revegetation within this area took place in 1985. Replaced soils were sandy in texture. The revegetation seed mix differed slightly in composition and representation of cool season grasses from the seed mix applied to the 1986 and 1987 reclaimed azeas, yielding a slightly different species composition. Specific sampling information for the 1985 Reclamation Area is contained in Table 3 and Table ' 7. Vegetation Cover ' • Total vegetation cover of the 1985 Reclamation Area was 47.60 percent. Based on ' cover sampling, graminoids provided 44.60 percent mean cover (93.84% relative cover), fortis accounted for 2.80 percent mean cover (5.82% relative cover), and shrubs 0.20 percent mean cover (0.34% relative cover). ' Three grass species accounted for 63 percent of grass cover and 59 percent of all total cover. These species were; Bromus marginatus (mountain brome) with 12.60 percent mean cover and 24.32 percent relative cover, Ca/amovilfa longifolia (prairie sandreed) ' with 9.00 percent total cover (20.21% relative cover), and Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass) with 6.60 percent mean cover and 15.75 percent relative cover. ' Six additional graminoids provided significant cover (relative cover greater than three percent). These species were; Poa compressa (Canada bluegrass) with 3.80 percent mean cover (7.19% relative cover), Sporobolus cryptandrus (sand dropseed) with 2.60 ' percent mean cover and 5.82 percent relative cover, Andropogon hadii (sand bluestem) with 2.60 percent mean cover (5.14% relative cover), Agropyron dasystachyum (thickspike wheatgrass) with 2.60 percent mean cover (4.79°lo relative cover), Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) at 2.20 percent mean cover and 4.45 percent relative cover, and Boute/oua gracilis (blue grama) at 1.20 percent mean cover and 3.42 percent relative t cover. • Vegetative litter (prior years growth, dead wood, and other biologic organic material) ' comprised 36.00 percent ground cover within the 1985 Reclamation Area. Baze soil -7