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• success in reclaimed areas and do not apply toward standards based on reference areas. <br />These species are most important regarding success in the Disturbed Meadow and <br />Juniper Woodland communities and least important regarding the Mixed Shrub <br />community. <br />I. Juniper Woodland Community <br />*** JW Baseline Area *** <br />General Information (JW): Twenty-four cover transects were necessary [o <br />achieve adequacy because of the fairly wide range in the first hit cover data. Individual <br />transects ranged from 24% to 64% total vegetative cover. Higher amounts of variation <br />could be expected because the shrub understory species were not consistently present <br />throughout the community. In general, understory shrub species were more prevalent <br />• at higher altitudes where the vegetation transitioned into the mixed shrub community. <br />The lower portions of the community tended to be drier, had less of a shrub <br />understory, and had a higher annual forb component. <br />Table B9 shows that the twenty-four cover samples exceeded the sample <br />adequacy calculation of 18.5 (Table B9; based on total absolute cover), indicating that <br />an adequate cover sample was collected for the baseline area. The twenty-four cover <br />locations were also sampled for woody stem density. The maximum 50 production <br />plots were sampled. <br />Absolute cover (JW): (Tables A1, B1) Total vegetative cover was estimated <br />to be 46.0%, though the more important value, perennial, non-noxious vegetative <br />cover, upon which present and future comparisons are based, was 38.3%. Annual <br />• <br />8 <br />