REP45303

• Permit No: C1982057
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 3/31/2005
• Doc Name: 2004 Revegation Monitoring Report
• From: Seneca Coal Company
• To: DMG
• Permit Index Doc Type: Reveg Monitoring Report
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table 11. Cover Data -Sagebrush Extended Reference Area, Seneca IIW Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2004 Page 2 of 4
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PLANT SPECIES
RELATIVE
AVERAGE VEGETATION
COVER FREQUENCY COVER
RELATIVE
AVERAGE VEGETATION
COVER-ALL COVER-ALL
(%) (%)
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L J
NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) (coot)
Carex geyeri 0.00 20.00 0.00 0.10 0.15
Caret pensylvanica ssp. heliophila ~ 0.20 10.00 0.35 0.20 0.30
Ceratochloa cadnata 0.10 20.00 0.18 0.30 0.45
Elymus elymoitles 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.10 0.15
Elymus lanceolatus fm. albicans 1.20 80.00 2.11 1.80 2.72
Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya 0.60 40.00 1.05 0.60 0.91
Elymus longifolius 0.00 30.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Elymus trachycaulus 1.00 80.00 1.76 1.80 2.72
Festuca arizonica 0.20 30.00 0.35 0.30 0.45
Festuca sazimontana 0.10 10.00 0.18 0.10 0.15
Hesperostipa somata 0.20 10.00 0.35 0.30 0.45
Koeleria macrantha 0.20 10.00 0.35 0.20 0.30
Leymus tdtiwides 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Paswpyrum smithii 1.00 40.00 1.76 1.10 1.66
Poa agassizensis 1.50 90.00 2.64 2.40 3.63
Poa ample 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Poa compressa ~ 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Poa secunda 0.10 10.00 0.18 0.10 0.15
TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES c 7.3 100.0 12.8 10.5 15.9
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Bromopsis inermis 1.10 20.00 1.93 1.80 2.72
Phleum pretense D.00 10.00 0.00 0.00. 0.00
Thino rum intermedium 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES c 1.1 ~ 20.0 1.9 1.8 2.7
NATIVE SHRUBS
Amelanchier atnifolia 0.70 60.00 123 0.70 1.06
Chrysothamnus viscidi0oms 2.30 70.00 4.04 3.30 4.99
Padus virginiana ssp. melanocarpa 0.10 20.00 0.18 0.20 0.30
Purshia tddenlata 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Quercus gambelii 0.40 20.00 0.70 0.40 0.61
Ribes wolfii 0.10 10.00 0.18 0.10 0.15
Seriphidium tndentatum 15.70 ~ 90.00 27.59 15.80 23.90
S m horira os rotundifolius 19.80 100.00 34.80 21.30 32.22
TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 39.1 100.0 68.7 41.8 632
MOSS
Moss 0.20 20.00 0.35 0.20 0.30
TOTAL MOSS 0.2 20.0 0.4 0.2 0.3
SUCCULENT
O untie of acantha 0.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
TOTAL SUCCULENT 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Standing dead 4.60 90.00 4.60
Litter 26.60 100.00 26.60
Bare soil 11.70 ~ 100.00 11.70
Rock 0.20 10.00 0.20
TOTALS 100.0 109.2
TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 56.9 s=9.3 100.0 66.7 s=12.9 100.0
GROUND COVER (Litter+Rock+Veg+St.Dead) 88.3 ~ 97.5
SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.)
AVERAGE= 25.7 Std.Dev; 2.9
'P= Present within 1 m. of either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered.