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Total Vegetation Cover (%) or Total Herbaceous Production (g/sq.m) 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Figure 1. Comparison <strong>of</strong> Total Vegetation Cover and Total Herbaceous Production with Precipitation Regime in the Dry Meadow and Historic Record Vegetation Communities HRSA Total Vegetation Cover By Year Dry Meadow Total Vegetation Cover By Year HRSA Total Herbaceous Production By Year Dry Meadow Total Herbaceous Production By Year 1996 HRSA 1996 HRSA 1998 HRSA 1998 HRSA 1982 DMRA 1982 DM 1997 HRSA 1997 HRSA 1982 DMRA 1982 DM 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 October-May Precipitation (inches) 1995 DMRA 1995 DMRA
Table 2. Comparison <strong>of</strong> Vegetation Parameters in Graminoid Communities at the West Elk Mine Growing Season Herb. Production Total Date and Location Precipitation (in.) Mean Cover (%) (g/sq. meter) Species Number* 1982 Dry Meadow 11.42 40.97 278.86 13 1982 Dry Meadow Reference Area 11.42 46.85 363.91 15 1995 Dry Meadow Reference Area 14.23 65.20 344.50 21 1996 Historic Record Veg. Comm. 7.78 38.27 127.71 6 1997 Historic Record Veg. Comm. 11.15 66.80 184.94 15 1998 Historic Record Veg. Comm. 8.94 50.67 174.06 12 * note: species number reflects species with cover equal or greater than 0.1 %
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Page 17 and 18: METHODS Six mining companies submit
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compared to show the relationship o
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the last quarter of the 19 th Centu
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DISCUSSION The PDSI has several adv
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Mock, C. J. 1991. Drought and preci
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2000 Billings Land Reclamation Symp
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size delineation is approximately t
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Table 1. Comparison of Williams & B
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least 2 of the 3 years that product
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This reclaimed mineland study was d
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surface traffic which followed the
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Another factor that may have contri
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since the plots were only fertilize
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successive pit is then placed on to
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gave the trees moisture retaining s
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INTRODUCTION While numerous studies
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In desert ecosystems of North Ameri
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Physically, the reconstructed soil
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small percentage of inhibitory soil
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INTRODUCTION In order to address co
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areas by soil depth were also gathe
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T52N Powder River Coal- Rawhide T50
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Table 2. Study Area Compared to Bre
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STUDY AREA The study area is Seneca
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Plant competition did not significa
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Tilman, D. and D. Wedin. 1991. “D
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INTRODUCTION The Montana Strip and
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livestock. The environmental charac
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In Montana, as well as much of the
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REFERENCES Econ, Inc. 1983. Vegetat
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INTRODUCTION In 1996, owners of a s
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Table 1. Physical and chemical char
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surface soils collected from both b
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The Book Cliffs lie within the Pric
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Rock Outcrop Rubbleland Topsoil Sto
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pinyon/juniper, Douglas fir/Rocky M
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Construction and Reclamation Sequen
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LEGEND: Cap Layer Material Excess I
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Step 7: LEGEND: Cap Layer Material
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A North Slope Rock, rubble Sideslop
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Approximate Original Contour Restor
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Regulatory Concerns with the Experi
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Nyenhuis, J. H. 1997. Soil resource
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INTRODUCTION Management of soils on
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Soil samples were collected from th
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situ soil. Data from the Irigaray R
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The data on soil microbial biomass
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Coal Basin is characterized by uniq
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A problem developed the summer foll
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delivered to the DMG over one thous
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A variety of containerized shrubs (
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TABLE 3. OUTSLOPE SEED MIXTURE SPEC
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INTRODUCTION Hard rock mines in the
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Coversoil an
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Table 2. Effect of coversoil thickn
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Brady, Nyle C. and R.R. Weil. 1996.
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2000 Billings Land Symposium SUCCES
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Traditional approaches to revegetat
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Table 1. Survival and mean vigor ra
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Survival (%) 100 80 60 40 20 0 �
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Seven planting sites were evaluated
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Table 5. Summary survival and parti
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SPECIES SELECTION Once the NPS made
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There is some question as to how mu
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Restoration within Yellowstone and
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Altitude Revegetation Workshop, No.
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INTRODUCTION The legacy of Montana
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METHODS AND MATERIALS The project d
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elt seeder based on a seeding rate
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Table 2. Anaconda Initial Evaluatio
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Planting begins with seedbed prepar
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REFERENCES Bradshaw, A.D.; McNeilly
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