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CMP Part 3A. Environmental Protection Plan <br />Heibaceous <br />W40 Vegetation <br />}q Sparse <br />3 �p <br />Shnibland i -Vegetation <br />1% 0% <br />Woodland <br />2% Open Water <br />33% <br />Forests <br />_ <br />18%v 00) 14 <br />Planted. <br />Maintained Artificial <br />or Cultivated -Surface <br />Vegetation 20% <br />13% <br />Figure 3A-1 Land cover <br />Natural Resource Inventory Results. The Inventory identified 358 individual natural community <br />remnants, covering a total of 2,549 acres or approximately one-fourth of Orono's land area. These <br />included eight forest types, one woodland type, two shrub -land types, four herbaceous wetland <br />types, and one upland grassland type. Each of the remnants was categorized with regards to quality <br />as either high, good, moderate or low. <br />Nearly half of this acreage (1,148.2 acres) is encompassed in Maple -Basswood Forest remnants <br />ranging in size from 0.2 acres to 113.2 acres. Oak Forests comprise 369 acres, and Lowland <br />Hardwood Forests total 157 acres. Other forest types identified include Aspen Forest (4.4 acres); <br />Tamarack Swamps (25.4 acres); Floodplain Forests (14.5 acres); Black Ash Swamps (56.9 acres); <br />and Mixed Hardwood Swamp (3.1 acres). Oak Woodland/Brush-land totals 38.0 acres. <br />Shrub -lands identified in the inventory include Willow Swamp (30.4 acres) and Alder Swamp (2.8 <br />acres). Herbaceous wetlands documented in the inventory include 568 acres of Cattail Marsh <br />ranging from 0.1 acres to 106.1 acres in size; 11.9 acres of Wet Meadow; 2.5 acres of Poor Fen; <br />and 74.2 acres of Mixed Emergent Marsh. Upland grasslands include Mesic Prairie totaling 29.3 <br />acres. <br />Aggregate <br />Orono does not benefit from aggregate (Sand/ gravel) resources in a commercially viable scale. <br />Consequently, there are no plans to open or allow for aggregate mining within the city of Orono. <br />City of Orono Community Management Plan 2020-2040 Part 3A, Page 9 <br />