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Page 2. <br />• Plot Farrative~ <br />The 0.1 acre plot location Sa situated is as area vhese the present vegeta- <br />tion is considered to bs most neatly 111ce that expected in climax caaditics <br />lane a Loaay Foothills range site. This does not imply that the present veg- <br />etatioa is sear climax. but only that the plant comasmity on the plot is <br />probably the cost poeodnetive and representatin as a lousy foothill site to <br />bs found la the area as the affected land sad leased land. <br />Qipping xas dose on three randomly selected 2.4 square toot plots vlthin <br />the 0.1 acre plot. Production fig~ses far the clippings are likely to ba <br />samerhst lover than they xonld be later is the fall. as the greases vese not <br />mature with sesdheada and light cattle gracing vas reawing available tarags. <br />Although mph at the vestexa xheatgrsss had headed out, only immatnre~ nn- <br />headed pleats xers found is the clipping Srams. The blue grams xas immature <br />throughout the site. <br />Description aS the pleat eomaimity remains essentially the same as xas des- <br />cribed Sa April, 1979. The percentage of air dry forage ptoduced by xestaa <br />• xheatgrasa should be revised doxm-axd to an average of 30%, rather than 507c. <br />Blue grams averages troy 50-609L. (~assea produce fran 85-90 of the total <br />air dry fa~rage en the site. Red tlaeeaxn, bottiebrash squirrel tail, ring <br />muhly and sand dropseed accoffit for about 10¢ of the grass production. <br />Farbea and shrubs make vp roughly 10¢ of the total air dry forage produced <br />each year. <br />Total production appears to be closer to 700 - 800 pbvads per acre rather <br />than 1000 - 1100 pounds per acre, sa originally estimated. Total pods <br />a[ forage produced is nearly lapoasible to verity as loasg as the area is <br />being graced by cattle sad gasses are at different stages of matia:ity xhc <br />clipped. Tine and policy does sot permit accurate monitoring of all vegetation <br />as the site at a mat~sa stage. SYea though paeaductiaa is lox fora loaq <br />foothill sits, the trend at the range appears to be npxard and the potential <br />to produce 1500 pounds per acre is these ii more productive gtaasea are rr <br />established through natural w artificial means. <br />Gass height should be revised upward to 36 inches rather than 15 inches. <br />• The site is still considered to have a mid grass aspect. <br />2-81 <br />