REP33712

• Permit No: C1994082
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 4/3/2006
• Doc Name: 2005 Annual Revegetation Monitoring Report
• From: Seneca Coal Company
• To: DMG
• Permit Index Doc Type: Reveg Monitoring Report
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table 9. Cover Data -Mountain Brush Extentled Reference Area for the Seneca IIW Mine, Yoast Mine, SCC, Page 2 of a
ROUtt Co., CO - 2005
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RELATIVE RELATIVE
PLANT SPECIES AVERAGE VEGETATION AVERAGE VEGETATION
COVER FREQUENCY COVER COVER-ALL COVER-ALL
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL FORBS
Taraxacum officinale 0.10 20.00 0.15 0.10 0.12
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL FORBS 0.1 20.0 0.2 0.1 0.1
NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Achnatherum hymenoides 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Achnatherum lettermanii 0.10 20.00 0.15 0.10 0.12
Achnatherum nelsonii 0.10 70.00 0.15 0.20 0.23
Bromopsis canadensis 0.10 20.00 0.15 0.10 0.12
Carex geyed 0.80 60.00 1.22 2.30 2.67
Carex pensylvanica ssp. heliophila 0.70 60.00 1.07 0.80 0.93
Ceratochloa carinata 0.50 80.00 0.76 0.90 1.05
Elymus elymoides O.DO 20,00 0.00 0.10 0.12
Elymus glaucus 0.00 20.00 0.00 0.10 0.12
Elymus lanceolatus fm. albicans 0.20 70.00 0.31 0.60 0.70
Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya 0.00 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Elymus lrachycaufus 1.60 90.00 2.45 3.00 3.49
Hesperostipa comata 0.30 60.00 0.46 0.30 0.35
Koeleria macrantha 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Pascopyrum smithii 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Poa agassizensis 3.90 100.00 5.96 7.10 8.26
Poa palustris 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Poa secunda 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c 8.3 100.0 12.7 15.6 18.1
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Bromopsis inermis 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
NATIVE SHRUBS
Amelanchier alnifolia 3.70 90.00 5.66 4.20 4.88
Chrysothamnus viscidi0orus 0.10 10.00 0.15 0.10 0.12
Mahonia repens ~ 0.00 20.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Padus virginiana ssp. melanocarpa 3.50 80.00 5.35 5.50 6.40
Purshia tridentate 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Quercus gambelii 31.20 100.00 47.71 31.60 36.74
Rosa sayi 0.10 10.00 0.15 0.10 0.12
Seriphidium tridentatum 0.80 60.00 1.22 0.80 0.93
S m hodcarpos rotundi(olius 10.20 100.00 15.60 14.90 17.33
TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 49.6 100.0 75.8 57.2 66.5
Standing dead 1.50 90.00 1.50
Litter 19.90 100.00 19.90
Bare soil 12.00 100.00 12.00
Rock 1.20 50.00 1.20
TOTALS 100.0 120.6
TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 65.4 (s=11.4 100.0 86.0 (s=20.2) 100.0
GROUND COVER (Litter+Rock+Veg+St.Dead) 88.0 108.6
SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.)
AVERAGE=28.3 Sttl.Dev= 3.6)
'P=Present within 1m. on either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered.