Middle Waterway (Simpson/Trustees) Year 5 Riparian Cover
Years 1, 3, and 5 (2006) Riparian Development at Middle Waterway (Simpson/Trustees) – Cover
Cover Type	Year 1 (2002)			Year 3 (2004)				Year 5 (2006)
	Unbiased Average Quadrat Canopy Cover	90% Confidence Interval		Year 3 Targets	Unbiased Average Quadrat Canopy Cover	90% Confidence Interval		Year 5 Targets	Stratified Mean (Standard Estimate)	Stratified Mean (Bootstrap Estimate)	95% Confidence Interval (Bias-Corrected Bootstrap Estimate)
		Lower	Upper			Lower	Upper				Lower	Upper
		Bound	Bound			Bound	Bound				Bound	Bound
NATIVE
Herbs & Forbs	59.4%	42.5%	76.2%	>70%	64.0%	26.6%	101.5%	-	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Shrubs	39.7%	13.1%	66.3%	>30%	50.5%	0.0%	103.8%	>50%	20.1%	20.2%	12.7%	26.4%
Trees	27.1%	4.3%	49.8%	>25%	30.8%	6.2%	55.3%	>40%	31.2%	31.3%	23.3%	41.8%
TOTAL NATIVE	70.4%	40.2%	100.6%		55.4%	36.5%	74.4%		51.2%	51.2%	44.7%	57.8%
TOTAL NNI	51.7%	33.4%	70.1%	<2%	69.1%	28.6%	109.6%	<5%	12.0%	11.9%	7.3%	19.0%
n/a = Not assessed
Note:
It is not appropriate to compare directly the results from various years because the estimates were calculated differently.  Also note that the Years 1 and 3 results included herbs and forbs in the totals, while herbs and forbs were not a monitoring component in Year 5.