2013-04-15_PERMIT FILE - C1994082 ‎(6)‎

• Permit No: C1994082
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 4/15/2013
• Section_Exhibit Name: Tab 22 Revegetation Plan
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

The approach to re- establishment of the functional potential of woody plants in the vegetation
• of the reclaimed site is as follows:
1) Shrubs are planted as part of the general mix across the entire reclaimed surface. The
presence of shrubs at a basic, background level (240 stems per acre) will maintain the
opportunity for further shrub proliferation when conditions allow;
2) Development of shrubs on the reclaimed surface can be expected to be heterogeneous with
planted seed and naturally dispersed seed developing in patch -like fashion. Experience on
older sites such as the Seneca 11 Kline has shown that this cannot be predicted. Naturally
developed (unfenced) shrub concentration areas can be expected to be largely sagebrush
and snowberry along with varying amounts of competition and browsing- dwarfed tall
shrubs;
3) Within fenced planting areas, tall shrubs as well as trees will have the chance to achieve
full stature, providing values of cover and more importantly seed production and dispersal.
These islands of tall shrub presence provide on -going potential for proliferation of tall
shrubs across the reclamation surface as future conditions allow. The heterogeneous
patterns of life form: will benefit wildlife habitat needs by providing cover in a mosaic
fashion that offers frequent transition from tall to short and woody to herbaceous enhancing
the so- called "edge effect." As this heterogeneity develops, the current dominance of
herbaceous cover will continue to provide substantial foraging resources that are relatively
scarce in the general area so heavily occupied by thick woody cover.
SCC proposes five woody plant density standards, two mandatory standards for the overall
reclaimed land and three (secondary) standards for the concentrated shrub /tree establishment
sites of which two must be satisfied:
0 Mandatory Shrub Standard - -- Overall, non - fenced, reclaimed land - - - -- 200 stems per acre
Mandatory Shrub Standard - -- Volunteer (plus remnants of planting) shrub concentrations
(outside fences) - - -- 1000 sterns per acre on at least 10% of the unfenced acreage.
Q Secondary Standard NIo.l ---Woody plant establishment areas, upland, fenced - - -- 445
woody stems /acre average.
® Secondary Standard No.2 -- -Woody plant establishment areas, riparian, fenced, un- fenced --
-- 445 woody stems /acre average, riparian areas will contain at least 150 sterns /acre of tree
• or tail shrub species.
TR-48 47 09/11