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Annual Monitoring Report
FINAL
Project Name: East Fork Pigeon River Wetland
Monitoring Year 4
NCDMS Contract No.: 006035
NCDMS Project No.: 94203
Haywood County, North Carolina
Data Collected: 5/11/2017-10/20/2017
Date Submitted: 10/30/2017
Submitted to:
North Carolina Division of Mitigation Services
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
1652 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC

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November 13th, 2017
Mr. Paul Wiesner
Project Manager
NCDEQ Division of Mitigation Services
5 Ravenscroft Dr., #102
Asheville, NC 28801
Subject: East Fork Pigeon River Wetland Project (EEP Project #94203) - MY4 Final Report Comments
Dear Mr. Wiesner:
The North Carolina Division of Mitigation Services (DMS) contracted the services of Equinox to perform
project assessment and monitoring services for the East Fork Pigeon River Wetland Project Site, per
contract # 006035. Comments provided by DMS are listed below with the red text indicating how each
was addressed by Equinox within the final report.
• General: Please be sure that "draft" is removed from the report cover in the final report. Draft
has been removed from all footers in the final draft.
• Section 1.4 - "Results from the vegetation monitoring indicate only one of the three plots is
meeting the interim success criteria of 320 stems per acre." Please correct; the MY4 interim
success criteria is 288 stems per acre. Final report has been updated to show that the MY4
interim success criteria is 288 stems per acre.
• Table 1: The MY4 monitoring report needs to match the DMS internal project credit database.
Please update the report assets as follows: The preservation wetland WMUs should be 2.33
WMUs; the TOTAL WMUs should be updated to 3.46 WMUs. Table 1 has been updated to show
that the total preservation WMUs are 2.33 and that the total WMUs for the project are 3.46.
• Table 2: Please add the USACE Jurisdictional Determination to the table. The completions or
delivery date should be November 3, 2010. The USACE Jurisdictional Determination has been
added to Table 2 with the date of Nov 2010.
• Table 2: Please include all previous invasive treatments in the table. MY3 and MY4 invasive
treatments are currently missing. MY3 and MY4 invasive treatments have been added to table
2.
37 Haywood Street, Suite 100 Asheville NC 28801 828.253.6856 www.equinoxenvironmental.com

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The project manager for this project is Mr. Drew Alderman. His contact information is as follows:
Drew Alderman, Natural Resource Specialist
Equinox Environmental Consultation & Design, Inc.
37 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
828-253-6856 ext. 213 direct office line
828-253-8256 fax
The contracting entity forth is work is Equinox Environmental Consultation & Design, Inc., with federal
tax ID number55-0789032.
Sincerely,
Drew Alderman
37 Haywood Street, Suite 100 Asheville NC 28801 828.253.6856 www.equinoxenvironmental.com

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Table of Contents
1.0 Project Summary............................................................................................................................... l
1.1. Project History and Background
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1.2. Project Goals and Objectives........................................................................................................
2
1.3. Project Success Criteria................................................................................................................
2
1.4. Annual Monitoring Results...........................................................................................................
2
2.0 Methodology.....................................................................................................................................
3
3.0 References.........................................................................................................................................3
Appendix A General Tables and Figures......................................................................................................
5
Appendix B Visual Assessment Data...........................................................................................................
9
AppendixC Vegetation Data......................................................................................................................18

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1.0 PROJECT SUMMARY
1.1. Project History and Background
The East Fork Pigeon River Wetlands Project (EFPR) restoration site is located in the French Broad River
Basin (HUC8- 06010106) near Cruso in Haywood County, NC. It is a North Carolina Division of
Mitigation Services (DMS) site whose purpose is to provide wetland mitigation for unavoidable losses at
other locations within the basin. The site is situated between the right -descending bank of the East Fork
of the Pigeon River and Old Michael Road, off of Highway US 276.
The established goals for the EFPR site were as follows:
Enhance and protect existing wetlands and wildlife habitat along the East Fork Pigeon River.
Specifically, the target goal was to enhance the vegetative community of the wetlands by
removing identified invasive plant species through manual and/or chemical methods and by
replanting the site with native species.
Protect the wetlands on the site with a permanent Conservation Easement.
Preserve approximately 1,411 feet of the East Fork of the Pigeon River and approximately 664
feet of Perennial Stream with a permanent Conservation Easement.
The project did not require Clean Water Act Section 404 / Section 401 permits as no ground disturbing
activities within jurisdictional wetlands were anticipated or occurred on the site. Additionally, the project
was instituted prior to July 28, 2010 and did not require a mandatory IRT mitigation plan review.
On November 3, 2010, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved a wetland Jurisdictional
Determination (JD) on the project site. The JD was used to prepare a mitigation plan that would result in
enhanced wetland function. The mitigation plan for the project was completed by Mactec Engineering
and Consulting, Inc (Currently AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, Inc.) in March 2011
The control of nuisance plant species within the bottomland hardwood forest and shrub/understory open
areas on the site entailed the treatment of the seven invasive nuisance plant species: Bamboo
(Phyllostachys sp.), common cattail (Typha latifolia), multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), Japanese
knotweed (Reynoutria japonica), Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), kudzu (Pueraria montana),
and Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense).
A majority of the invasive species infestations were mapped in the 2011 mitigation plan; however
Chinese privet and multiflora rose were essentially scattered throughout the entire bottomland hardwood
forest. The control methods entailed the treatment of small -sized plants with foliar spray and larger stems
by hack and squirt. The chemical `aquatic glyphosate' was used for the herbicide applications. The cut
bamboo was placed in a slash pile and burned on the site. New shoots of bamboo, which developed after
the initial treatment, were treated with aquatic glyphosate. All invasive control treatments and planting
efforts were conducted by Habitat Assessment & Restoration Professionals (HARP; Charlotte, NC). The
nuisance plant species were treated for two growing seasons prior to the planting of the site. Upon
review, however, DMS postponed the planting of the site for a third growing season to allow for
additional nuisance species control before replanting. Spot treatments of invasive species will continue
through the scheduled 5 -year monitoring term.
The 2011 mitigation plan estimated the wetland planting area to be approximately 5.64 acres. Based on
2013 site conditions and the extent of the invasive plant treatment areas, approximately 2.26 acres of the
project's 13.95 acres were planted in December 2013. The wetland areas that were excluded from the
planting operation encompassed: (1) a deepwater wetland drainageway that occurred along the southern
shoulder of Old Michael Road and was determined to be an historical channel of the East Fork Pigeon
River; (2) the stream banks of East Fork Pigeon River (bankfull bench and spoil areas); and (3) the
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heavily forested portions of the bottomland hardwood forest. Therefore, the planting operation primarily
encompassed the areas of the bottomland hardwood forest that were open and lacking an overstory of
trees or a dense shrub component. The planting of trees (seedlings) within these open areas will
essentially restore the hardwood overstory of the wetlands.
The 2011 Mitigation plan and project implementation did not include any enhancement activities for the
East Fork Pigeon River or the unnamed perennial stream that occurs within the western portion of the site.
These surface waters are essentially unimpaired and provide suitable habitat for fish and benthic macro -
invertebrates. The proposed stream preservation assets have a minimum 30 -foot buffer from edge of bank
on both sides of the channel.
1.2. Project Goals and Objectives
The established mitigation goals for the EFPR site were to enhance and protect existing wetlands and
wildlife habitat along the East Fork Pigeon River. Specifically, the target goal was the vegetative
enhancement of the existing wetland community. The project objectives included:
• Enhance existing wetlands by removing identified invasive plant species through manual and/or
chemical methods and by replanting the site with native species.
• Protecting the wetlands with a permanent Conservation Easement.
• Preservation of 2,075 feet of perennial stream.
1.3. Project Success Criteria
The project success criteria are as follows:
Vegetation success within the wetland areas that were planted and proposed for Wetland
Enhancement (2.26 -acres) will be based on the criteria established in the USACE Stream
Mitigation Guidelines (2003). This document states that vegetation monitoring results indicate the
following planted stem density minimums in the corresponding monitoring years: 320 stems/acre
through year three, 288 stems/acre in year four, and 260 stems/acre in year five.
Vegetation monitoring will not be conducted in the wetland preservation areas; however, the
entire site will be monitored via yearly photo points. Invasive plant species and beaver
colonization will be suppressed on the entire site until project closeout; however, there will be no
success criteria linked to treatment of the invasive plant species or beaver removal.
1.4. Annual Monitoring Results
Monitoring Year 4 (MY4) data collection consisted of monitoring previously established vegetation plots
in three of the four planted areas. Results from vegetation monitoring indicate only one of the three plots
is meeting the interim success criteria of 288 stems per acre. However, all plots are currently meeting the
final MY5 success criteria of 260 planted stems per acre (Table 6). Planted stem density averaged 472
stems per acre across all plots. Stem density ranged from 283 stems per acre to 850 stems per acre.
When naturally recruited stems are included, densities ranged from 728 to 890 stems per acre with an
MY4 mean of 809 stems per acre across all plots. Seven woody species were documented in the
vegetation plots.
Visual assessments performed on May 11, 2017 and October 20, 2017 focused on planted stems outside
of the permanent vegetation monitoring plots and the status of invasive exotic vegetation. Although no
quantifiable data related to planted stems were collected during the visual assessment, observations
suggest that the planted stems are surviving throughout the easement. Dead stems were noted; however,
these were limited to isolated stems and not large areas.
In addition to planted stems, an inventory of invasive exotic vegetation was performed. Japanese
honeysuckle, oriental bittersweet, multiflora rose, and Chinese privet were documented throughout drier,
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upland areas of the easement and scattered in low densities throughout the easement (Figure 2). Along
the road in the northwestern portion of the easement, a patch of kudzu was documented. This infestation
has responded well to treatments and has been reduced to only a few small vines. Bamboo was also noted
in the wetter, more central portions of the easement. During a walkthrough in October, a small patch
bamboo was noted in and around vegetation plot 3. Treatments of invasive exotic vegetation during MY4
occurred in May and August 2017. During the May treatments, kudzu, multiflora rose, Japanese
knotweed, privet sp., and oriental bittersweet were treated with both a foliar spray of glyphosate in a 5%
solution and a cut and stump spray of a 50% solution of Garlon 3a. During the August treatments, basal
bark treatments of 15% Garlon 3a in diesel fuel were used on infestations of privet sp., multiflora rose,
and oriental bittersweet. Cut and stump spray treatments of a 50% solution of Garlon 3a was also used to
treat Japanese honeysuckle, privet sp., multiflora rose, oriental bittersweet, and Japanese knotweed.
Treatments showed good efficacy; however, populations of invasive -exotic vegetation still persist
throughout the easement (Figure 2).
Summary information/data related to the occurrence of items such as beaver or easement encroachment
and statistics related to performance of various project and monitoring elements can be found in the tables
and figures in the report appendices. Narrative background and supporting information formerly found in
these reports can be found in the Final Wetland Mitigation Report on NCDMS's website (NCEEP 2014).
All raw data, supporting tables, and figures in the appendices are available from NCDMS upon request.
2.0 METHODOLOGY
Vegetation plot monitoring data were collected following the standard CVS-EEP Protocol for Recording
Vegetation, Level II, Version 4.2 (Lee et al. 2008). A total of three plots were monitored for this project.
3.0 REFERENCES
Lee, Michael T., R.K. Peet, S.D. Roberts, and T.R. Wentworth. 2008. CVS-EEP Protocol for Recording
Vegetation, Version 4.2(http://cvs.bio.unc.edu/methods.htm)
NCEEP (North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program). 2014. Final Wetland Mitigation Report -
East Fork Pigeon River Wetlands Project. Haywood County, North Carolina. Raleigh.
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Appendix A
General Tables and Figures

Appendix A
Figure 1. Vicinity Map of the East Fork of the Pigeon River Wetland Site
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tum right onto NC -110. Follow NC l l0 for approxunately 5 miles,
4 Turn left onto US -276 and fallow for 2.3 miles, Slight right onto Old
215 Micheal Road, In approximately 0.3 miles easement ison right.
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NCDEQ Division of Mifigxtion Services (DMS) and is
encompassed by a recorded eonsrr ahon easement, but is
bordered by land under private ownership. Accessing the site may
require traversing arcs near or along the easement boundary and
therefore access by the genera] public is not permitted. Access by
1 - authorized personnel of state and federal agencies or their
designees/contractors involved it the development, oversight and
stewardship of Site restoration site is permitted within fire temts and
timeframes of thew defined roles. Any intended site visitation or
r ' I activity by any person outside of these previously sanctioned roles
- and .tcuvi6es requires prior -ordination with DMS.
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Date: October 2016 Sheet: 1 of 1
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Notes:
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4 0.5 1 2
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Appendix A
Table 1. Project Components and Summation
East Fork of Pigeon Wetland / Project No. 94203
Feature
Mitigation
Quantity (Linear
Ratio
Mitigation Units
Dec 2010
Approach
Footage/Acreage)
N/A
(SMU/WMU)
Stream
March 2011
Permit Date
N/A
N/A
Perennial Stream
P
664
5:1
133
East Fork of the
p
1,411
5:1
282
Pigeon River
Nov 2010
Initial Mitigation Plan / As -built
-
March 2011
Total:
2,075
Total:
415
Wetland
Nov 2012
Invasive Exotic Treatment
-
July 2013
Bottomland
E
2.26
2:1
1.13
Hardwood Forest
Wetland Planting
-
Dec 2013
Final Mitigation Plan (Year 0 Monitoring - Baseline)
Bottomland
p
11.69
5:1
2.33
Hardwood Forest
Oct 2014
Nov 2014
Year 2 Monitoring
Dec 2015
Total
13.95
Total
3.46
Table 2. Project Activity & Reporting History
East Fork of Pigeon Wetland / Project No. 94203
Activity or Report
Data
Collection
Com Tete
Actual
Completion
or Delivery
Land Acquisition
-
Dec 2010
Environmental Resource Technical Report
N/A
N/A
Restoration Plan
N/A
March 2011
Permit Date
N/A
N/A
Initial Wetland Delineation
-
Oct 2010
Initial Invasive Exotic Reconnaissance
-
Oct 2010
USACE Jurisdictional Determination
Nov 2010
Topographic Survey
-
Nov 2010
Initial Mitigation Plan / As -built
-
March 2011
Invasive Exotic Treatment
-
June 2012
Invasive Exotic Treatment
-
Nov 2012
Invasive Exotic Treatment
-
July 2013
Invasive Exotic Treatment
-
Nov 2013
Invasive Exotic Treatment
-
Dec 2013
Wetland Planting
-
Dec 2013
Final Mitigation Plan (Year 0 Monitoring - Baseline)
-
March 2014
Invasive Exotic Treatment
-
July 2014
Year 1 Monitoring
Oct 2014
Nov 2014
Year 2 Monitoring
Dec 2015
Dec 2015
Invasive Exotic Treatment (MY3)
-
Sep 2016
Invasive Exotic Treatment (MY3)
-
Oct 2016
Year 3 Monitoring
Oct 2016
Nov 2016
Invasive Exotic Treatment (MY4)
-
May 2017
Invasive Exotic Treatment (MY4)
-
Aug 2017
Year 4 Monitoring
Oct 2017
Nov 2017
Year 5 Monitoring
N/A - Item does not apply.
- Information Unavailable
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Appendix A
Table 3. Project Contacts
East Fork of the Pigeon Wetland / Project No. 94203
Designer
AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, INC.
4021 Stirrup Creek Drive, Suite 100
Durham, North Carolina 27701
Primary Project Design POC
Richard Harmon [phone]
Construction Contractor
N/A
N/A
N/A
Construction Contractor POC
N/A
Planting Contractor
Habitat Assessment and Restoration Professionals
301 McCullough Drive, 4th Floor
Charlotte, North Carolina 28262
Planting Contractor POC
[phone]
Seeding Contractor
Habitat Assessment and Restoration Professionals
301 McCullough Drive, 4th Floor
Charlotte, North Carolina 28262
Seeding Contractor POC
[phone]
Seed M ix Sources
_
Nursery Stock Suppliers
_
Monitoring Performers (YO) - 2013
AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, INC.
4021 Stirrup Creek Drive, Suite 100
Durham, North Carolina 27701
Monitoring POC
Richard Harmon [phone]
Monitoring Performers
Equinox
(Y1 -Y4) - 2015- 2017
37 Haywood Street, Suite 100
Asheville, North Carolina 28801
Monitoring POC
Drew Alderman [phone]
Invasive Control Contractor
Carolina Silvics
(Y2 -Y4) - 2015-2017
908 Indian Trail Road
Edonton, NC 27932
Invasive Contractor POC
[phone]
N/A - Item does not apply.
- Information Unavailable
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Appendix B
Appendix B
Visual Assessment Data

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as such.
-NCOnemap Aerial Imagery (2015).
-Planting Areas digitized/georeferenced from AMEC Mitigation Report (2014)

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Appendix B
*Inludes treated areas (marked with green cross hatch on CCPV)
N/A - Item does not apply.
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Table 4. Vegetation Condition Assessment
East Fork of the Pigeon Wetland / Project
No. 94203
Planted Acreage:
2.29
% of
Number of
Combined
Vegetation Category
Definitions
CCPV Depiction
Planted
Polygons
Acreage
Acreage
1. Bare Areas
Very limited cover of both woody and herbaceous material.
N/A
0
0.00
0%
Woody stem densities clearly below target levels based on MY3,
Stipple
2. Low Stem Density Areas
0
0.00
o
0%
4, or 5 stem count criteria.
Orange Dots White Background
Totals
0
0.00
0%
Areas with woody stems of a size class that are obviously small
3. Areas of Poor Growth Rates or Vigor
N/A
0
0.00
o
0 /o
given the monitoringyear.
Cumulative Totals
0
0.00
0%
Easement Acre age:
16.53
% Of
Number of
Combined
Vegetation Category
Definitions
CCPV Depiction
Easement
Polygons*
Acreage*
Acreage
4. Invasive Areas of Concern
Areas or points (if too small to render as polygons at map scale).
Cross Hatch
CrossHata
23
1.82
11%
(Red - Dense/Yellow -Present)
Stipple
5. Easement Encroachment Areas
Areas or points (if too small to render as polygons at map scale).
0
0.00
o
0%
purple Dots White Background
*Inludes treated areas (marked with green cross hatch on CCPV)
N/A - Item does not apply.
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Appendix B
Permanent Photo Station 1
East/Southeast
Permanent Photo Station 2
West
Permanent Photo Station 3
North
Permanent Photo Station 4
North
Permanent Photo Station 5
Upstream
Permanent Photo Station 6
Southwest
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Appendix B
Permanent Photo Station 7
East
Permanent Photo Station 8
South/Southeast
Permanent Photo Station 9
Southwest
Permanent Photo Station 10
South/Southwest
Permanent Photo Station 11
Southeast
Permanent Photo Station 12
East
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Permanent Photo Station 13
Upstream
Permanent Photo Station 13
Downstream
East Fork Pigeon River -Permanent Photo Station 14
East/Southeast
Permanent Photo Station 15
North
Permanent Photo Station 16
West
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Appendix B
Permanent Photo Station 17
Northwest
Permanent Photo Station 18
North/Northeast
Permanent Photo Station 19
South/Southwest
Permanent Photo Station 20
North
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Appendix C
Vegetation Data

Appendix C
Table 5. Vegetation Plot Criteria Attainment
East Fork Pi eon River Wetland / Project No. 94203
Vegetation
Vegetation Plot
Survival
Tract Mean
ID
Threshold Met?
1 Yes
33%
2 No*
3 No*
*Not meeting interim success criteria, however plots are meeting the final W5 success criteria of 260 stems/acre
Color for Density
Exceeds requirements by 10% MINI
Exceeds requirements, but by less than 10%
Fails to meet requirements, by less than 10%
Fails to meet requirements by more than 10%
Recruit Stems
'PnoLS: No livestakes included in tally; P -all: All planted stems included in tally; T: Total stems including recruitment.
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Table 6. Planted and Total Stem Counts (Species by Plot with Annual Means)
East Fork Pigeon River Wetland / Project No. 64203
Current Plot Data (MY42017)
Annual Means
Scientific Name
Common Name
Species Type
Plot 1 Plot 2 Plot 3
MY4 (2017)
MY3 (2016)
M (2015)
MY1(2014)
MYO (2014)
PnoLS P -all T PnoLS P -all T PnoLS P -all T PnoLS P -all T PnoLS P -all T PnoLS P -all T PnoLS P -all T PnoLS P -all
T
Acerrubrum
Red Maple
Tree
2
1
Acerrubrum var. rubrum
Red Maple
Tree
4
4
1
Aesculus
Buckeye
2
2
Aesculus flava
Yellow Buckeye
Tree
2
Alnus serrulata
Hazel Alder
Shrub
31
3
1
1
1
Cornusamomum
SiIkyDogwood
Shrub
1 1 1 1
11 11
1
11 11
1 4 4
4
4 4
4
4
4
4
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Green Ash
Tree
4 4 41 4 4 4 4 4
4
12 12
12
13 13
17 141 14
141
14 14
14
12
12
12
Linderabenzoin
Northern5picebush
Shrub
1
Lindero benzoin var. benzoin
Northern Spicebush
Shrub
1
Liriodendron tulipifera var. tulipifera
Tulip -tree, Yellow Poplar, Whitewood Tree
6
61
6
Morus rubra
Red Mulberry
Tree
4
1
1
Nysso sylvatica
Blackgum
Tree
5 5 5 1 1
1
6 6
6
6 6
6 10 10
10
101 101
10
12
12
12
Platanus occidentalis
American Sycamore
Tree
I I
I
1
1
Plotanus occidentalis var. occidentalis
Sycamore, Plane -tree
Tree
12 121 121 2 2 2 2 2
2
161 161
16
18 181
181 22 22
221
22 22
23
24
24
24
Salix caroliniona
ICoastal Plain Willow
Tree
3
Salix nigra
IBlackWilllow
Tree
1 6
11
18
18
22
22
Sambucus
Elderberry
Shrub
2
2
Sambucus canadensis
Common Elderberry
Shrub
1 1
1
1 1
1
1
1
1
Stem count
21 21 22 7 7 20 7 7
18
35 35
60
38 38
72 51 51
82
511 511
82
591
591
59
size (ares)
1 1 1 1
3
1
3
3
3
3
size (ACRES)
0.02 0.02 1 0.02
0.07
1
0.07
0.07
0.07
0.07
Species count
3
3 4
3 3
6
3 3
4
4 4
7
4
4
10 5
5
13
5 5
12
6
6
6
Stems per ACRE
850
850 890
2831
809
28317281
4721 47218091
5131
51319711
6881
688
1106
688111061
7961
796
796
Color for Density
Exceeds requirements by 10% MINI
Exceeds requirements, but by less than 10%
Fails to meet requirements, by less than 10%
Fails to meet requirements by more than 10%
Recruit Stems
'PnoLS: No livestakes included in tally; P -all: All planted stems included in tally; T: Total stems including recruitment.
East Fork Pigeon River Site 19 Equinox
NCDMS Project No. 94203 Annual Monitoring Report
Monitoring Year 4 of 5

Appendix C
Vegetation Monitoring Plot 1
Monitoring Year 4 — September 19, 2017
Vegetation Monitoring Plot 2
Monitoring Year 4 — September 19, 2017
East Fork Pigeon River Site 20 Equinox
NCDMS Project No. 94203 Annual Monitoring Report
Monitoring Year 4 of 5

Appendix C
Vegetation Monitoring Plot 3
Monitoring Year 4 — September 19, 2017
East Fork Pigeon River Site 21 Equinox
NCDMS Project No. 94203 Annual Monitoring Report
Monitoring Year 4 of 5