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4.0 SUMMARY <br /> A quantitative vegetation study was conducted during the 1981 growing <br /> season for Mid-Continent Resources' proposed Coal Canyon project in <br /> Mesa County, Colorado. , The study was designed in accordance with the <br /> "Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division, 1980" <br /> to establish a standard for measuring revegetation success. <br /> A vegetation map of thl �permit area was prepared. Vegetation types <br /> present included Sagebrush/Cheatgrass Shrubland, Shadscale Shrubland, <br /> Pinyon/Juniper Woodland„ Black Sagebrush Shrubland, Riparian Shrubland, <br /> and Salina Wildrye Grassland. The Sagebrush/Cheatgrass Shrubland is <br /> the only vegetation type that will be disturbed, and therefore was <br /> quantitatively sampled. The remaining vegetation types of the permit <br /> area were described qualitatively. <br /> Quantitative sampling of vegetation cover, production, and shrub density <br /> was completed in the S gebrush/Cheatgrass vegetation type. A statis- <br /> tically adequate sample was taken for cover and shrub density. Adequacy <br /> for production sampling in this extremely variable community was not <br /> achieved; however, the maximum number of samples established by CMLR <br /> personnel was taken. <br /> Plant species were collected throughout the 1981 growing season. None <br /> of the 103 species identified are listed by the federal government or <br /> the state of Colorado as threatened or endangered. One prohibited <br /> noxious weed was found on the study area. <br /> -27- <br />