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WETLAND <br />This vegetation type is primarily located in the bottoms of the drainages which flow across this <br />site, such as Chiles Draw, located on the northwestern portion of the site, Meehan Draw which <br />flows across the north -central portion of the property and on other areas that receive irrigation <br />tailwaters from up slope irrigated areas or which are associated with groundwater discharge <br />areas. This vegetation type is the sixth largest plant community type found within the NHN <br />permit area (Map 2.04.10-1). This area covers an area approximately 25.14 acres in size and <br />accounts for nearly 7.80 percent of the permit area. <br />Plant Cover <br />The results obtained from the sampling of the 15 plant cover transects on the Wetland <br />predisturbance area are presented in Table 2.04.10-18. Total plant cover on this site averaged <br />69.80 percent and litter averaged 27.73 percent. <br />Four plant life forms were encountered in the cover sampling of this site. Native perennial <br />grasses and grasslikes were the dominant plant life form encountered on this site, contributing <br />54.87 percent of the total plant cover and 78.61 percent of the total relative cover found on this <br />site. Shrubs were the second most dominant plant life form, contributing 6.07 percent of the <br />total plant cover and 8.69 percent of the total relative cover found on this site. Perennial native <br />forbs contributed 5.87 percent of the total plant cover and 8.40 percent of the total relative cover <br />found on this area. Annuals contributed 3.00 percent of the total plant cover and 4.30 percent of <br />the total relative cover found on this area. <br />Baltic Rush, a native grass like plant was the most dominant plant species encountered, <br />contributing 31.24 percent of the total relative plant cover found on this site. The other dominant <br />plants encountered were: Common Cattail, Spreading Bentgrass, Tall Fescue and Blackcreeper <br />Sedge contributed 14.23, 12.03, 6.78 and 5.64 percent, respectively, of the total relative cover on <br />this area. <br />The locations of the 15 cover sampled in the Wetland predisturbance area are shown on Map <br />2.04.10-1. The sample adequacy calculations in Table 2.04.10-2, document that the number of <br />samples required to describe this site at the 90 percent confidence interval was 2.2 transects. <br />Section 2.04. 10 Page 22 of 36 June 2016 (TR -14) <br />