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4.5.3 Revegetation Success Criteria and Statistical Procedures - Reclaimed Irrigated <br />Pastureland <br />Revegetation will be deemed adequate if vegetation cover and herbaceous production at the <br />reclaimed site is at least 90% of the vegetative cover at the reference area and herbaceous <br />production is at least 90% of the reference area standard, after the weighted average soil <br />adjustment, in conformance with DRMS Regulation 4.15.8. The weighted average factor will be <br />applied to production only. One of the three statistical comparison methods in DRMS <br />Regulations 4.15.11(2) subsections (a), (b), or (c) will be used, according to the following <br />procedures. <br />For a quality standard, the following is proposed: <br />At least 75% of the relative production will be comprised of seeded species or species of <br />comparable quality as livestock forage. State listed noxious weed species and all annual and <br />biennial plants will not be counted toward the revegetation success standard for Irrigated <br />Pasture cover or production in any reclaimed or reference areas. For the purposes of this <br />demonstration, a statistically adequate production sample will be taken, or a minimum of 30 <br />observations. <br />Sample adequacy will be tested during field sampling using the formula in DRMS Regulation <br />4.15.11(2)(a), as follows: <br />t2s2 <br />nM (�)2 <br />where: <br />nm = minimum sample size <br />S = Sample variance (n -1 degrees of freedom) <br />d = Precision (0.10 for cover and production; 0.15 for woody <br />plant density) <br />x = Sample arithmetic mean <br />t = The (a =.10) t -table value for a 1 tail t -test, n -1 degrees of <br />freedom (infinite degrees of freedom may be used if n> 30) <br />n = Sample size <br />August 2013 PR -08 2.05.4(2)(e) - 31 <br />