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Plant Cover <br />Total plant cover on this site averaged 92.13 percent and litter averaged 6.74 percent (Table <br />2.04.10-15). <br />Perennial grasses dominated the plant cover on this site, contributing 56.33 percent of the total <br />cover or 61.36 percent of the total relative cover on this site. Perennial forbs contributed 34.33 <br />percent of the total cover and contributed 37.27 percent of the total relative cover on this site. <br />Noxious weeds contributed 1.27 percent or 1.37 percent of the total relative cover on this site. <br />No annuals or biennials were encountered in the plant cover sampling on this site. <br />Tall Fescue, an introduced planted pasture grass, was the dominant plant species growing on this <br />site, contributing 39.29 percent of the total relative cover on this site. Alfalfa, Orchard Grass, <br />Alsike Clover, and Kentucky Bluegrass were the other dominant species on this site, contributing <br />21.27, 10.34, 9.48 and 6.95 percent, respectively, of the total relative cover on this area. <br />The locations of the 15 cover transects sampled on this site are shown on Map 2.04.10-1The <br />sample adequacy calculations in Table 2.04.10-2document that the number of samples required <br />to describe the parameter of total plant cover on this site at the 90 percent confidence interval <br />was 0.3 transects. <br />Production <br />The results obtained from the 30 production transects sampled on this site are presented in Table <br />2.04.10-16. The average total production on this site was determined to equal 179.21 g/ 1 /4m2 or <br />6,387.0 pounds of air-dry forage per acre. Perennial grasses contributed an average of 102.33 <br />g/1/4m2 or 57.10 percent of the total herbaceous forage production. Perennial forbs, contributed <br />an average of 76.88 g/1/4m2 or 42.90 percent of the total herbaceous production. <br />Table 2.04.10-2, documents that forage production on this site at the 90 percent confidence <br />interval was determined to equal 4.1 transects. The locations of the 30 production transects are <br />shown on Map 2.04.10-1. <br />Shrub Density <br />As documented in Table 2.04.10-17, there were no shrubs or woody plants encountered in the <br />sampling of the fifteen cover transects. The average shrub density on this site is zero and as <br />shown in Table 2.04.10-2, sample adequacy at the 90 percent confidence interval was achieved <br />at zero transects. <br />Section 2.04. 10 Page 21 of 36 June 2016 (TR -14) <br />