2012-05-14_REVISION - C1980005

• Permit No: C1980005
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 5/14/2012
• Doc Name: Updates to the Vegetation Section
• From: Seneca Coal Company
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: SL5
• Email Name: JDM
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

INTRODUCED PERENNIAL FORBS
Taraxacum officinale
P
P
P
P
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL FORBS
NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Achnatherum nelsonii
P
1
P
P
P
1
Bromelica bulbosa
5(1)
7
8(1)
4(1)
11(3)
8
4(2)
7
1(2)
5(1)
10(2)
2(2)
Carex douglasii
1
P
14
1
Carex geyeri
1
Ceratochloa polyantha
P
P
P
Elymus lanceolatus fm. albicans
1
P
Elymus lanceolatus fm. dasystachya
4
1
2
Elymus trachycaulus
3
(1)
2
P
6
2
P
5(2)
4(1)
P
3
(1)
Festuca brachyphylla ssp. coloradensis
10(3)
14(1)
17
13(4)
6
18(1)
Festuca idahoensis
P
1
Festuca saximontana
10
24(1)
11(3)
3(1)
5
17(2)
Pascopyrum smithii
1
1
P
Poa ampla
P
P
(1)
Poa pratensis ssp. agassizensis
P
2(1)
3(1)
P
P
P
2
Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata
1
1
TOTAL NATIVE PERENNIAL GRASSES (c)
23(1)
20(4)
27(3)
28(2)
39(4)
21(3)
23(3)
26(6)
11(3)
12(2)
31(4)
23(4)
INTRODUCED PERENNIAL GRASSES (cool)
Bromopsis inermis
P
2
P
2
P
3(2)
5(2)
2
2
Phleum pratense
P
P
P
P
Thinopyrum intermedium
1
1
1
TOTAL INTRO. PERENNIAL GRASSES (c)
P
3
1
- --
2
P
1
3(2)
5(2)
2
--
2
NATIVE SHRUBS
Amelanchier alnifolia
P
1
2
2
P
1
P
3
2
P
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus
P
2
P
P
1
2
1
2(1)
2
1(1)
1
1
Ribes inerme
P
Seriphidium arbusculum ssp. longilobum
5
P
2
2
Seriphidium tridentatum
20
16
7
7
16
13
10
10
10
14
8
10
Symphoricarpos rotundifolius
7(1)
11(1)
13
6
7(2)
14(1)
14(1)
27
32
8(1)
9
9
TOTAL NATIVE SHRUBS
27(1)
30(1)
25
15
26(2)
29(1)
26(1)
39(1)
47
27(2)
18
22
Standing dead
7
6
3
3
1
3
6
Litter
17
16
25
19
10
15
20
15
16
19
25
26
Bare soil
6
4
5
5
1
17
8
8
6
7
3
6
TOTALS
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
TOTAL VEGETATION COVER
70(6)
80(6)
70(3)
70(5)
89(6)
65(4)
69(5)
77(12)
77(7)
71(4)
66(5)
68(4)
GROUND COVER (Litter +Rock +Veg +St Dead)
94(6)
96(6)
95(3)
95(5)
99(6)
83(4)
92(5)
92(12)
94(7)
93(4)
97(5)
94(4)
SPECIES DENSITY (# of species /100 sq.m.)
33
30
27
27
24
37
32
27
29
25
27
25
(AVERAGE= 28.7 Std.Dev.= 3.7)
Table 3a. Cover Data - Sagebrush Reference Area, Seneca II Mine, SCC, Routt Co., CO - 2010 4 of 4
PLANT SPECIES
Percent Foliar Cover*
-- Sample Number - --
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11
'P= Present within 1m. of either side of the cover transect, but not quantitatively encountered.
() =Data in parenthesis represent other hits that are used in conjunction with first hits for cover all statistics.
12
13
14
15