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Table G -2. Allowable Herbaceous Cover Calculations - Aspen Reference Area, <br />Phase III, Seneca IIW Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2011 <br />PLANT SPECIES <br />Percent Foliar Cover' <br />- -- Sample Number-- - <br />11 12 13 14 15 <br />Standing dead <br />1 <br />2 <br />1 <br />Litter <br />6 <br />6 <br />5 <br />6 <br />5 <br />Bare soil <br />6 <br />6 <br />1 <br />4 <br />2 <br />TOTALS <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />100 <br />TOTAL VEGETATION COVER <br />87(53) <br />88(56) <br />92(43) <br />90(43) <br />92(69) <br />GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St.Dead) <br />94(53) <br />94(56) <br />99(43) <br />96(43) <br />98(69) <br />SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.) <br />38 <br />40 <br />35 <br />27 <br />27 <br />(AVERAGE= 40.1 Std.Dev.= 8.9) <br />TOTAL ALL HIT VEGETATION COVER <br />140 <br />144 <br />135 <br />133 <br />161 <br />Annual /Biennial subtraction factor <br />(No subtraction is made if value is negative) <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />0.00 <br />ALL HIT Non - Herbaceous cover subtraction (Shrubs) <br />84.0 <br />620 <br />25.0 <br />47.0 <br />50.0 <br />ALL HIT Noxious weed subtraction <br />2.00 <br />2.00 <br />2.00 <br />2.00 <br />2.00 <br />Total deduction per transect <br />86.00 <br />64.00 <br />27.00 <br />49.00 <br />52 00 <br />ALL HIT MEAN ALLOWABLE HERBACEOUS COVER <br />(Calculated using individual transect data) <br />54.0 <br />80.0 <br />108.0 <br />84.0 <br />109.0 <br />'P= Present within 1 m. on either side of cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered. <br />()= Data in parentheses represent other hits that are used in conjunction with first hits for cover all statistics. <br />Page 12 of 12 <br />