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Date: 3/16/17 <br /> Inventory for: Huerfano County Water Conservancy District Reservoir and Gravel Mine <br /> Richard Rhoades. Range and Reveg LLC <br /> Location: NE1/4 of the NE1/4 section 22 T26S R70W, Huerfano County, north part of <br /> proposed disturbance (reservoir and staging area) <br /> Soils: Neville fine sandy loam, 3 to 6% slopes (soil map number 51) <br /> Range Site: Loamy Foothills <br /> Warm, windy - squirrel tail and western wheatgrass just beginning to show some green up, <br /> inventory determined by last year's growth and plant remnants. <br /> Plant Percent Composition by weight (air-dry): <br /> Grasses <br /> Bouteloua gracilis, blue grama 52 <br /> Aristida purpurea, purple threeawn 3 <br /> Muhlenbergia torreyi, ring muhly 2 <br /> Sporobolus cryptandrus, sand dropseed 4 <br /> Bromus tectorum, cheatgrass T <br /> Pascopyrum smithii, wheatern wheatgrass 13 <br /> Elymus elymoides, bottlebrush squirreltail 3 <br /> Achnatherum hymenoides, Indian ricegrass 3 <br /> Forbs and Shrubs <br /> Eriogonum sp., buckwheat T <br /> Yucca glauca, yucca, small soapweed T <br /> Gutierrezia sarothrae, broom snakeweed 1 <br /> Opuntia polyacantha, plains prickly pear 5 <br /> Ericameria nauseosus, rubber rabbitbrush 2 <br /> Krascheninnikovia lanata, winterfat 2 <br /> Helianthus annuus, common sunflower 1 <br /> Kochia scoparia, kochia 1 <br /> Atriplex canescens, fourwing saltbush 7 <br /> annual forbs 1 <br /> T = trace <br /> Annual herbage production estimate (pounds per acre, air dry): 650 -800 <br /> Basal vegetation density estimate (%): 15 <br /> 091 <br />