PERMFILE46563

• Permit No: M1980135
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Name: RANGE SITE DESCRIPTON FOR SANDY PLAINS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

RANGE SITE N0. 24 Page 2
SANDY PLAINS - ,
December 1975
Shrubs such as sand sagebrush, herbaceous sage and fringed sage-
brush, wormwood, small soapweed and bush buckwheat occur in very
low percentage. Plains prickly:Fpear and ball cactus are also
present in very small amounts. Trees are not native to this site
The optimum ground cover is 40$.
Native (potential) Vegetation and Guide for Determining Range
Condition.
Percentage composition by weight of the principal species may
total as much as:
'Side-oats grama 20
Needle-and-thread 10
Little bluestem 10
Thlckspike wheatgrass 10
Blue grama 10
Sand dropseed 10
Prairie sand reed 5
Junegrass 5
Sedges 5
• Sand bluestem
Switchgrass 1
1
Yellow lndiangrass l
Plants that•are most likely to increase when the range deteriorates
are western ragweed, bluestem prickly poppy, sand bur, sand paspalum,
lambsquarter, kochia, Russiar. thistle, sunflower, salt grass, rubber
rabbitbrush, broom snakeweed, little barley, cheatgrass brome,
tumblegrass, puncture vine. The native plant community of grasses
that will decrease will be needle-and-thread, little bluestem, side-
oats grama, prairie sand reed, sand bluestem, Junegrass, switchgrass.,
yellow Indiangrass, thickspike wheatgrass.under the first signs of
deterioration. Blue grama and sand dropseed increase to begin with
but~with further deterioration the invasion of the plants listed
as most likely to increase will come in and replace the blue grama
and sand dropseed.
4. Total Annual Production
Favorable years 2500 Pounds per Acre Air Dry
Unfavorable years 800 " " " " "
Median years 1600 " " " " "
•
:I
:. ~ ~ s.~
1
i
i
I
,.
li.
I
i
I
I
l~ -
~~~ '
:i

Rho l
J(\
Uc