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• Relative cover (MS): (Tables A8, BS) Once again, peremual fort species <br />diversity was higher than for other lifeforms. Again, however, the dominant lifeform <br />was the tree/shrub class. Annual species diversity dropped in the mixed shrub <br />community while the number of perennial grasses and grasslikes increased from 4 to 7 <br />from the JW baseline area to the MS baseline area. Although there was a noxious <br />weed species in the MS baseline area, both the ]W and the MS baseline areas had <br />eighteen perennial forb and eight shrub species present in the relative cover data. An <br />average of 8.6 species/transect (1.4 higher than the JW baseline area) was found in the <br />MS baseline area. <br />Only three species, perennial or otherwise, had relative cover values higher than <br />3%. All three, Gambel oak, snowherry, and serviceberry, were shrub species. <br />Gambel oak had the highest value at 46.6%, which would he an acceptable upper limit <br />• for a success standard. <br />Production (MS): (Tables A13, B7) Herbaceous production as expected was <br />very low. Due to the dense canopy created by the tightly arranged shrub species, <br />production was lower in this community than in the other two. Only 218 pounds per <br />acre of total production was measured, of which 180 pounds per acre were contributed <br />by perennial, non-noxious species. <br />Woody stem density (MS): (Tables A18, B8) Woody plant density was more <br />than double the value for the JW baseline community. Gambel oak, serviceberry, and <br />snowbenry showed dramatic density increases from the JW baseline area data, while <br />juniper densities dropped to nominal levels. <br />n <br />14 <br />