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Table 4. Cover Data - 2003 Reclaimed Area, Yoast Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2005 Page 4 of 4 • PLANT SPECIES Percent Foliar Cover' • ----Sample Number---- 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) Achnatherum nelsonii P Ceratochloa carinata 11 6 12 7 11(4) 9 1 1 2 Critesion jubatum P P P Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya 3 P P P 8 7(2) 6 30 5 1 Elymus trachycaulus 6 P 9 P 5 3 2 5 3 Festuca brachyphylla ssp. coloradensis 1 P 1 1 (1) P Leymus cinereus P P P 1 Leymus triticoitles P Nassella viridula 1 P Pascopyrum smithii 2 P 4 2 6 P 1 1 1 Poa agassizensis 1 P 1 Poa ampla 1 P P Poa compressa 1 P P P P Poa secunda P P P Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis 1 Pseudoroe neria s icata ss . s icata P P 1 1 P P TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES c 19 13 P 25 19 31 6 19 37 1 12 7 INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) Agropyron cristatum ssp. desertorum p Agropyron desertorum P P Brorrropsis inermis 1 Dactylis glomerata 4 P 1 P P 1 1 P 2 Festuca ovina var. duriuscula P Phleum pratense P 1 P Poa pratensis P Thino rum intermedium 1 P P TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES c 5 P P 1 1 P 1 1 P 3 NATIVE SHRUBS Purshia tridentata 1 Seri hidium tritlentatum P P P TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS --- 1 --- --- P --- P --- --- --- Standing dead 3 4 1 5 1 Litter 19 21 23 62 10 19 17 37 41 45 Bare soil 41 34 22 3 55 i6 47 15 19 23 Rock 1 6 1 1 1 TOTALS 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 36 39 51 1 34 35 1 60 8 34 47 1 39 32 GROUND COVER(Litter+ROCk+Veg+St.Dead) 59 66 78(1) 97 45(1) 84(8) 53 85(1) 81 77 SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.) 30 40 15 24 26 26 22 17 25 38 AVERAGE=26.3 Std.Dev.= 8.0 'P=Present vnthin i m. on either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered.