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RESULTS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br />ABSOLUTE COVER (First hit data): Tables 3 and 4 <br />First hit cover data for each of the 26 transects is listed in Table 3. Total <br />vegetative cover was estimated at 60.9%. Total perennial, non-noxious vegetative <br />cover was only slightly lower at 59.1 %, which constitutes 97 % of the total amount of <br />cover. This indicates that the overwhelming majority of the established vegetation is <br />not annual, biennial, or noxious in nature. Noxious weeds summed to 0.7% absolute <br />cover while annual and biennials summed to 1.2%. Both the total and the total <br />perennial, non-noxious cover values exceed the success threshold of 58.62%, indicating <br />that the mine area has been successfully revegetated from the standpoint of absolute <br />cover. <br />Table 4 summarizes the cover data by subunit. Although there are variations in <br />the quantities of individual species across the reclaimed subunits, the consistencies <br />predominate. The Rienau No. 2 data is the lowest at 51.7% as would be expected <br />considering how late in the season it was collected. Had it been collected with the <br />other data, it could have been expected to have a more typical value (closer to 60%), as <br />was the case in the 1992 .data. <br />SPECIES DIVERSITY (Multiple hit data): Tables 5 and 6 <br />Over the entire site, perennial non-noxious species predominated. Of the 36 <br />plant species encountered during multiple hit cover sampling, only 2 noxious and 7 <br />annual/biennial species were intercepted. The number of vegetative hits per transect <br />7