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AMENDMENT <br />Coddle Creek Reservoir' <br />October 22, 1993 <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />Monitoring of the above parameters will be required at the beginning, <br />middle and end of each growing season for the first 4 years, and at the <br />beginning and end of each growing season for years 5 through 7. This <br />results in a total of 18 monitoring events. In addition, the 404 permit <br />requires a baseline evaluation of the preservation areas. <br /> <br />Quantitative monitoring will be done in 20 of the planting areas using <br />standard ecological assessment techniques. The remaining planting areas <br />will be qualitatively assessed for survivorship, percent area coverage of <br />recruited vegetation (inc. luding nuisance species), and depredation~, <br />vanclal~sm or other problems. <br /> <br />1.6.3.1.1. <br /> <br />Administration and Set-up. Implementation of the post- <br />planting monitoring program will require a number of <br />preliminary efforts, including development of a detailed <br />monitoring program for submittal to, and approval by, the <br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NC Wildlife Resources <br />Commission. Extensive work will be required to set up <br />monitoring stations in each of the 20 quantitative sites, as <br />well as in the preservation areas and at fish sampling <br />stations. <br /> <br />1.6.3.1.2. <br /> <br />Habitat Creation Areas. Wetland and upland planting <br />areas delineated in the Planting Area Drawings (#1 through <br />#1 I) developed by HDR as support for contract documents, <br />and any subsequent areas illustrated in site-specific <br />mapping developed by NCSU, will be monitored for <br />survivorship of planted species of vegetation, recruitment <br />of native species of vegetation, percent coverage of planted <br />and recruited vegetation, and growth of all vegetation. <br /> <br />Methodology - A specific monitoring program using <br />standard techniques, including regularly spaced parallel <br />transects6, shrub and herbaceous quadrats7, photographic <br /> <br />5 vegetation damage and/or mortality from animal feeding <br /> <br />6 linear path along which data are collected <br /> <br />7 an imag/nary square used to physically define an area to be studied <br /> <br /> <br />