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to cover with 12.5 percent. Also observed in the area were the noxious weeds hound's tongue and bull <br />thistle. <br />Total average vegetation cover for first hits was 89.1 percent. Allowable all -hit herbaceous vegetation <br />cover was 88.9 percent (Table F -2). Cover by standing dead, litter, bare soil and rock averaged 0.3, 8.2, <br />2.4 and 0.0 percent, respectively (first hit). Average species density was 33.1 species per 100 sq. m. <br />2014 Mountain Brush Extended Reference Area <br />(Photographs 46 through 61) <br />COVER <br />(Table A -3) <br />Native shrubs were the predominant lifeform observed in the Mountain Brush Reference Area, <br />contributing 82.9 percent all -hit vegetation cover. Of this, Gambel's oak (Quercus gambeli6 contributed <br />31.1 percent, mountain snowberry (Symphoricarpos rotundifolius) contributed 23.4 percent, Saskatoon <br />serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) contributed 15.4 percent and chokecherry (Padus virginiana ssp. <br />melanocarpa) contributed 11.8 percent. Native perennial cool season grasses made a strong contribution <br />to all -hit cover, with 15.8 percent, of which the major components were elk sedge (Carex geyen) and <br />Agassiz bluegrass (Poa pratensis ssp. agassizensis). Also observed in the area was the noxious weed <br />hound's tongue (Cynoglossum officinale). <br />Total average vegetation cover for first hits was 83.8 percent. Allowable all -hit herbaceous vegetation <br />cover was 42.1 percent (Table F -3). Cover by standing dead, litter, bare soil and rock averaged 0.7, 11.2, <br />4.3 and 0.0 percent, respectively (first hit). Average species density was 29.7 species per 100 sq. m. <br />13 <br />