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Table 1. Cover Data - 2002 Reclamation Area, Yoast Mine, SCC, CO - 2009 <br />0 PLANT SPECIES <br />• <br />• <br />Percent Foliar Cover' <br />---Sample Number--- <br />3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 <br />NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Agrostis spp. (1) <br />Bromopsis ported P <br />Carex sp. P <br />Ceratochloa polyantha 5 P 1 P 6(2) <br />Critesion jubatum P P P P <br />Elymus elymoides P <br />Elymus lanceolatus fm. albicans 1 1 <br />Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya 5 7 4 7 3 1 1 P 6(1) 4 <br />Elymus trachycaulus 4(1) 9 1 6 5 <br />Festuca arizonica P <br />Festuca brachyphylla ssp. coloradensis P P <br />Festuca saximontana 2 3(1) 2(1) 5 1 3 3 8 <br />Leymus cinereus 3(1) 5 2 9 15(1) 36 15 13(1) <br />Nassella viridula 1 P P <br />Pascopyrum smithii 1(1) 1 7(1) 3 3 11 1 1 10 3 <br />Poa agassizensis 2 P P <br />Poa compressa 6 1 P 4 1 3 7 5 3 <br />Poajuncifolia 2 3 1 4(1) 3 P 2 P (1) P <br />Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. inermis 1 P <br />TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 29(3) 30(1) 18(2) 30(1) 31(2) 52 13 19(2) 39(2) 31(1) <br /> <br />INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool) <br />Bromopsis inermis P <br />Dactylis glomerata 8 3 5 3 9(1) 4 7 <br />Phleum pratense P P P <br />TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c) 8 3 5 3 9(1) --- --- 4 7 <br />NATIVE SHRUBS <br />Amelanchier alnifolia P <br />Seriphidium tridentatum P 1 2 P P <br />TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS P 1 2 P --- --- --- P --- --- <br />BRYOPHYTES <br />Moss 6 P P <br />TOTAL BRYOPHYTES 6 P 3 --- --- --- P --- --- --- <br />MUSHROOMS <br />Basidiomycete fungus P <br />TOTAL MUSHROOMS --- --- P ___ --_ -__ _-- --- --- <br />Standing dead 2 1 1 2 3 1 6 3 <br />Litter 35 32 35 27 23 17 38 20 25 28 <br />Bare soil 5 15 15 14 11 5 21 40 4 6 <br />Rock 1 3 2 2 1 <br />TOTALS 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER 58(5) 51(5) 46(3) 55(1) 66(5) 75(7) 41(1) 37(3) 65(3) 62(11) <br />GROUND COVER (Litter+Rock +Veg+St.Dead) 95(5) 85(5) 85(3) 86(1) 89(5) 95(7) 79(1) 60(3) 96(3) 94(11) <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species/100 sq.m.) 29 35 36 34 32 27 30 21 22 25 <br />(AVERAGE= 29.1 Std.Dev.= 5.3) <br />'P=Present within 1 m. of either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered. <br />()=Data in parenthesis represent other hits that are used in conjunction with first hits for cover all statistics. <br />Page 4 of 4