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mountain snowberry contributed 5.1 percent. Native perennial cool season grasses and native perennial <br />forbs and made moderate contributions to cover, with 6.3 and 1.5 percent, respectively. Also observed in <br />the area was the noxious weed hound's tongue. <br />Total average vegetation cover for first -hits was 79.8 percent. Allowable first -hit herbaceous cover was <br />8.7 percent. Cover by standing dead, litter, bare soil and rock averaged 2.4, 15.4, 2.3 and 0.0 percent, <br />respectively. Average species density was 28.3 species per 100 sq. m. <br />PRODUCTION <br />(Table B -6) <br />Total herbaceous production in 2012 was 217.7 pounds per acre. Of this, 169.5 pounds were native <br />perennial cool season grasses, 23.2 were native perennial forbs, and 25.0 were native annual and <br />biennial forbs. Introduced perennial forbs was the only other lifeform present for production with only <br />traceable amounts of production. <br />2012 Sagebrush Reference Area <br />(Photographs 46 through 48) <br />COVER <br />(Table B -7) <br />Native shrubs were the predominant lifeform observed in the Sagebrush Reference Area, contributing <br />18.9 percent total first -hit vegetation cover. Of this, mountain snowberry and big sagebrush each <br />contributed 6.8 percent. Native perennial cool season grasses contributed 16.5 percent first -hit vegetation <br />cover. Of this, fescue (Festuca saximontana) contributed 13.4 percent. Additionally native perennial forbs <br />contributed 10.0 percent first -hit vegetation cover. <br />Total average vegetation cover for first -hits was 47.2 percent. Allowable first -hit herbaceous cover was <br />28.3 percent. Cover by standing dead, litter, bare soil and rock averaged 3.3, 42.7, 6.7 and 0.1 percent <br />respectively. Average species density was 31.9 species per 100 sq. m. <br />17 <br />