REP47849

• Permit No: C1980005
• 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

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Table 7. Cover Data - 2002 Reclaimed Area, Seneca II Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2004 '
RELATIVE RELATIVE
PLANT SPECIES AVERAGE VEGETATION AVERAGE VEGETATION
COVER FREQUENCY COVER COVER-ALL COVER-ALL
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Percent Foliar Cover'
---Sample Number---
1 2 3 4
NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) (coot)
Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya 1.00 66.67 3.76 1.07 3.97 1 P 1 P i
Elymus longifolius 0.00 13.33 0.00 0.00 0.00
Elymus trachycaulus 1.00 100.00 3.76 1.00 3.72 P 2 4 P 1
Leymus cinereus 0.00 26.67 0.00 0.00 0.00 P
Nassella viridula ~ 0.40 66.67 1.50 0.40 1.49 P 1 P 1
Pascopyrum smithii 0.80 80.00 3.01 0.60 2.98 2 P 2 2
Poa agassizensis 0.07 33.33 0.25 0.07 0.25 1 ~ P P
Poa secunda 0.07 20.00 0.25 0.07 0.25 1 P
Poa compressa 0.00 13.33 0.00 0.00 0.00 P P
Pseudoroe neria spicata ssp. spicala 0.47 53.33 1.75 0.47 1.74 1 1 2 P
TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 4.6~ 100.0 17.3 4.7 17.4 1 7 10 4 6
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Bromopsis inennis 0.40 66.67 1.50 0.40 1.49 ~ P P P 1
Dactylis glomerata 1.40 73.33 5.26 1.47 5.46 1 6(1) 1 4
Festuca ovina var, duriuscula 0.00 6.67 0.00 0.00 0.00 P
Thino rum intermedium 0.27 40.00 1.00 0.27 0.99 P P P
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 2.1 93.3 7.8 2.1 7.9 P 1 6(i) 1 5
NATIVE SHRUBS
Amelanchier alnifolia 0.00 6.67 0.00 0.00 0.00 P
Cercocerpus montanus 0.00 6.67 0.00 ~ 0.00 0.00
Purshia tridentata ~ 0.00 40.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 P P
Rosa woodsii 0.00 13.33 0.00 0.00 0.00
Seriphidium tridentatum 0.00 46.67 - 0.00 0.00 0.00 P P P P
S mphoricarpos rotundifolius 0.00 13.33 0.00 0.00 0.00 P
TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS 0.0 73.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 P P P P P
Standing dead 2.47 73.33 2.47 2 6 8 4
Litter ~ 13.53 100.00 13.53 14 13 14 16 8
Bare soil 46.60 100.00 46.60 64 47 23 47 55
Rock 10.80 100.00 10.80 2 14 6 4 10
TOTALS 100.0 100.3 100 100 100 100 100
TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 26.6 (s=9.5) 100.0 26.9 (s=10.1) 100.0 20 24 51(3 25 23
GROUND COVER (Litter+Rock+Veg+St.Dead 53.4 ~ 53.7 36 53 77(3) 53 45
SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.) 23 27 29 31 29
(AVERAGE=24.3 Std.Dev.= 6.6)
'P= Present within 1 m. of either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered.