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otherwise stated, all cover values reported below are for all -hit data. Percentages are rounded to one <br />decimal place to facilitate discussion of the results. <br />2016 Phase 11 BRB-2a <br />(Photographs 1 through 27) <br />(`nvFR <br />(Table A-1) <br />Cover data were collected at 27 samples in the BRB-2a. Native perennial cool season grasses were the <br />dominant lifeform with 22.4 percent cover. Of which, Western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii, 8.6 <br />percent), basin wildrye (Leymus cinereus, 5.2 percent), bottle brush squirrel tail (Elymus elymoides, 2.4 <br />percent), and Agassiz bluegrass (Poa pratensis ssp. agassizensis, 2.0 percent) were the dominant <br />species. Introduced perennial cool season grasses and introduced perennial forbs contributed 9.7 and <br />9.6 percent, respectively. Smooth brome (Bromopsis inermis, 4.5 percent), and Timothy (Phleum <br />pretense, 2.3 percent) were the dominant contributing species to introduced perennial cool season <br />grasses. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa, 9.0 percent) was the dominant contributing species to introduced <br />perennial forbs. Introduced annual and biennial forbs contributed 7.4 percent with twolobe speedwell <br />(Pocilla biloba, 3.8 percent) as the dominant species contributing to this total. Native shrubs contributed <br />3.8 percent to cover, with big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata, 3.6 percent) as the dominant contributing <br />species. Native annual and biennial forbs, native perennial forbs, introduced annual grasses, and <br />bryophytes contributed 1.7, 1.6, 1.1, and 0.1 percent to cover, respectively. <br />Also observed in the area were small amounts of the B-List noxious weeds: Canada thistle (Cirsium <br />arvense, 0.4 percent), hound's tongue (Cynoglossum officinale, 0.2 percent cover), and whitetop <br />(Cardaria draba, 0.2 percent). Bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) and dalmatian toadflax (Linaria genistifolia <br />ssp. dalmatica) were also present. The C-List species Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum, 0.1 percent) and <br />bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulboua) were also present in the BRB-2a in 2016. <br />Total average all -hit vegetation cover was 61.4 percent. Allowable all -hit herbaceous cover was 52.7 <br />percent (Table B-1). Cover by standing dead, litter, bare soil and rock averaged 0.4, 32.9, 10.5, and 2.4 <br />percent, respectively (first hits). Average species density was 24.4 species per 100 m2. <br />11 <br />