2012-04-02_REPORT - C1982057 ‎(13)‎

• Permit No: C1982057
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 4/2/2012
• Doc Name: 2011 Revegetation Monitoring Report ‎(Part 4 of 4)‎
• From: Seneca Coal Company
• To: DRMS
• Permit Index Doc Type: Reveg Monitoring Report
• Email Name: SLB
• Email Name: SB1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table G -2. Allowable Herbaceous Cover Calculations - Aspen Reference Area,
Phase 111, Seneca IIW Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2011
PLANT SPECIES
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Percent Foliar Cover*
- -- Sample Number-- -
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Standing dead
1
1
Litter
6
7
4
3
10
3
3
4
6
4
Bare soil
4
1
1
8
1
4
2
2
5
TOTALS
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
TOTAL VEGETATION COVER
90(49)
92(28)
95(51)
97(73)
81(58)
96(108
92(63)
94(66)
92(57)
91(35)
GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St.Dead)
96(49)
99(28)
99(51)
100(73)
92(58)
99(108
96(63)
98(66)
98(57)
95(35)
SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.)
50
40
51
35
50
49
53
33
43
30
(AVERAGE= 40.1 Std.Dev.= 8.9)
TOTAL ALL HIT VEGETATION COVER
139
120
146
170
139
204
155
1
%,
,~ 1-
(No subtraction is made if value is negative)
'
ALL HIT Non - Herbaceous cover subtraction (Shrubs)
54.0
37.0
57.0
57.0
61.0
87.0
59.0
52.0
65.0
25.0
ALL HIT Noxious weed subtraction
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
Total deduction per transect
56.00
39.00
59.00
59.00
63.00
89.00
61.00
54.00
67.00
27.00
ALL HIT MEAN ALLOWABLE HERBACEOUS COVER
(Calculated using individual transect data)
83.0
81.0
87.0
111.0
76.0
115.0
94.0
106.0
82.0
99.0
*P= Present within 1 m. on either side of cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered.
()= Data in parentheses represent other hits that are used in conjunction with first hits for cover all statistics.