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Table 8 Honeywood - Vegetation Cover - 2009 <br />Sagebrush Reference Area - South <br /> Percent Ground Cover Based on Point-Intercept Sampling <br /> Transect No.> 1 2 3 4 5 Average Relative <br />Freq. <br />Grasses and Grass-likes Cover Cover <br /> <br />Nw P Bouteloua gracilis Blue Grama 4 3 1 1.60 7.84 60 <br />N P Oryzopsis hymenoides Indian Ricegrass 2 0.40 1.96 20 <br />N P Sitanion hystrix Bottlebrush Squirreltail 2 <br />.............. <br />..... 0.40 .1;96 20 <br />.......................................................... <br />N P Stipa comata Needle and Thread 1 1 6 1 1.80 8.82 80 <br />Forbs <br />None 0.00 0.00 0 <br />Shrubs, Cacti & Trees <br />N P Artemisia tridentata var wyo. Wyo. Big Sagebrush 15 13 16 19 15 15.60 76.47 100 <br />N P Gutierrezia sarothrae Broom Snakeweed 1 1 1 0.60 2.94 60 <br /> Man <br /> Total Plant Cover 18 17 26 24 17 20.40 <br /> Rock 1 0.20 <br /> Litter 34 32 26 26 39 31.40 <br /> Bare ground 48 51 48 49 44 48.00 <br /> Total Perennial Cover 18 17 26 24 17 20.40 <br /> Plant Cover Mean = 20.40 t= 1.5332 n= 5 <br />Sample Adequacy Calculations Variance = 1 nmin - 10.34 <br /> No. of Perennial Grasses (3% - 50% Rel. Cover) = 2 <br />Diversity <br />L_ No. of Perennial Forbs 3% - 50% Rel. Cover = 0 <br />r Table 9 Hone ood - Vegetation Cover - 2009 <br /> <br /> Grassland Reference Area - South <br /> Percent Ground Cover Based on Point-Intercept Sampling <br /> Transect No.-> 1 2 3 4 5 Average Relative <br />Freq. <br />Grasses and Grass-likes Cover Cover <br /> <br />Nw P Bouteloua gracilis Blue Grama 6 8 8 5 7 6.80 27.20 100 <br />I A Bromus tectorum Cheatgrass 2 1 0.60 2.40 40 <br />Nw P Hilana jamesii lle <br />ta <br />James' Ga <br />1 .. 1 ..... ... 1 ...... ....... ..... 0..40 ...... ...... 1..60. <br />. <br />40.... <br />. <br /> <br />......... Py ........ <br />.. <br />Stipa com.....................ata .............................. . <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />.................... Needle ................. and ... Thread ..... <br />........ <br />14 <br />............ <br />18 13 <br /> <br />17 <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />14.80 <br /> <br />59.20 <br /> <br />100 <br />Forbs <br />N P Enogonum sp. Buckwheat 1 0.20 0.80 20 <br />N P Phlox longifolia Longleaf Phlox 1 1 1 0.60 2.40 60 <br />N P Sphaeralcea coccinea Scarlet Globemallow 3 1 2 1 1.40 5.60 80 <br />Shrubs, Cacti & Trees <br />N P Opuntia polyacantha Prickly-Pear 1 0.20 0.80 20 <br /> Mean <br /> Total Plant Cover 24 29 27 24 21 25.00 <br /> Rock 1 1 4 2 2 2.00 <br /> Litter 26 36 28 27 34 30.20 <br /> Bare ground 49 34 41 47 43 42.80 <br /> Total Perennial Cover 24 29 25 23 21 24.4 <br /> Plant Cover Mean = 25.00 t = 1.5332 n = 5 <br />Sample Adequacy Calculations Variance = nmin ° 3.57 <br /> No. of Perennial Grasses (3% - 500/o Rel. Cover) = 0 <br /> Diversity No. of Perennial Forbs 3% - 500/o Rel. Cover = 0 <br />CEDAR CREEK ASSOCIATES, Inc. Page 21 Hamilton Mine - Revegetation Evaluation - 2009