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reclaimed unit and counting the number of emergent plants by life form within <br />each quadrat. Conversion to the number of emergents per square foot facilitates <br />an assessment of the eventual success of the seeding effort. <br />During the second and fourth growing season of a reseeded area, herbaceous <br />cover and woody plant density information will be gathered. This information <br />will be gathered at the species level and will reflect the effectiveness of the seed <br />mixture and volunteer species. Colowyo will also monitor areas seven years old <br />and every third year thereafter (year 10, 13, etc.) to assess their status toward <br />approaching the maturity necessary for bond release testing. Seven year and older <br />monitoring will also utilize ground cover and density sampling, but will include a <br />modest current annual production sampling effort to facilitate evaluation of <br />progress toward meeting this variable and to allow a determination of carrying <br />capacity should a program of livestock grazing be implemented. After 7 years of <br />growth and where practicality dictates, revegetation units may be combined into <br />logical management units for sampling / monitoring purposes, rather than <br />remaining autonomous. Monitoring will cease following Phase III bond release. <br />4. The data and an assessment of the monitoring results will be submitted in the <br />Annual Reclamation Report. A map will be included to delineate the reclaimed <br />areas being sampled each year. The Annual Reclamation Report will also provide <br />details regarding restricted interseeding or other mitigative measures implemented <br />. as a result of the vegetative monitoring program. <br />4.15.2 Use of Introduced Species <br />For pre -2008 revegetation, (especially pre -2002 revegetation) an examination of the seed <br />mixture approved for the reclamation of rangeland indicates that Colowyo included some <br />introduced species in the mixture for which regulatory approval was obtained. <br />Introduced species included in the seed mixture were: <br />(1) Intermediate Wheatgrass (Agropyron intermedium) <br />(2) Siberian Wheatgrass (Agropyron sibericum) <br />(3) Pubescent Wheatgrass (Agropyron trichophorum) <br />(4) Smooth Brome (Bromus inermus) <br />(5) Orchard Grass (Dactylus glomerata) <br />(6) Vinall Russian Wildrye (Elymus junceus) <br />(7) Durar Hard Fescue (Festuca ovina duriscula) .(Actually Native) <br />(8) Timothy (Phleum pratense) <br />(9) Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis) (Naturalized Taxon) <br />(10) Lutana Cicer Milkvetch (Astragalus titer) <br />(11) Blue Flax (Linum lewisii) (Actually Native) <br />(12) Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) <br />Of the 31 species approved, 21 species are native. On a seed weight basis, 65% of the <br />seeds to be planted are native species seed.. <br />4.15 -2 Revision Date: 6/21/11 <br />Revision No.: TR -84 <br />