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Transact Locations. All of the cover, production and shrub density transacts sampled in this <br />evaluation are shown on the enclosed map. The locations 15 cover, 30 production and 30 shrub <br />density transacts sampled are shown on Map 1, Raton Creek Mine - 2005 Vegetation Transact <br />Location Map. <br />RATON CREEK MINE RECLAMATION <br />Plant Cover. The results obtained from the sampling of the 15 plant cover transacts on this site <br />are presented in Table 3, Raton Creek Mine Reclamation - 2005 Plant Cover. Total plant cover <br />on this site averaged 35.27 percent (Table 3, Raton Creek Mine Reclamation - 2005 Plant <br />Cover). In 2004 total plant cover on this site was found to average 36.87 percent. <br />The revegetation success standard for this site is 25 % "allowable cover." Examination of Table <br />3, Raton Creek Mine Reclamation - 2005 Plant Cover, reveals that the total "allowable cover" <br />on this site in 2005 averaged 28.99 percent. In 2004, total "allowable cover" averaged 30.50 <br />percent. Since the ach~al "allowable cover" value values for 2005 (28.99 %) and 2004 (30.50 %} <br />for this reclaimed site both exceed the revegetation success standard for this site (25 %), it can <br />be concluded that the "allowable cover" in this reclamation block satisfies the revegetation <br />success standard for both years of monitoring. <br />Perennial grasses dominated the seeded vegetation on this site in 2005, contributing a total of <br />52.17 percent of the total relative plant cover on this site. In 2004, perennial grasses contributed <br />52.62 percent of the total relative plant cover. Western VJheatgrass, Blue Grams, Sideoats <br />Grams and Bluebunch Wheatgrass were the most commonly encountered grasses in the 2005 <br />sampling, contributing 34.39, 6.24, 3.77 and 1.89 percent, respectively of the total relative cover <br />on this reclauned site. <br />Perennial forts contributed 21.35 percent of the total relative cover on this site in 2005 and in <br />2004 contributed 21.08 percent of the total relative cover. Cicer Milkvetch was the most <br />commonly encountered perennial fort on this site in 2005, contributing 20.22 percent of the total <br />relative cover. <br />The locations of the 15 cover transacts sampled on this site are shown on Map 1, Raton Creek <br />Mine - 2005 Vegetation Transact Location Map. Copies of the individual field data sheets for <br />the plant cover sampling of this site are found in Exhibit A -Copies of Raton Creek Mine - 2005 <br />-Plant Cover Field Data Sheets. The sample adequacy calculations in Table 2, Raton Creek <br />Mine Sample Adequacy Calculations, document that the number of samples required to describe <br />this site at the 90 percent confidence intervat was detemuned to equal 13.2 transacts based on <br />"allowable cover." <br />Production. The results of the 30 production transacts sampled at the Raton Creek Mine are <br />summarized in Table 4, Raton Creek Mine - 2005 -Production. The average forage production <br />on tins site in 2005 averaged 29.33 g/1/4m~ or 1,045.3 pounds of air dry forage per acre. This <br />compared with an average production value in 2004 of 33.78 g/1/4m2 or 1,203.9 pounds of air <br />dry forage per acre. <br />