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• are not present now. The existence of several domestic plant species (including <br />Latlryrru latifolius and orange poppy) also underscores a more intense history of <br />association with human habitation, whether from the original townsite or from the large <br />house located at its center. However, in spite of these differences, visual inspection of <br />the two areas in July indicated a greater similarity than dissimilarity. Two photos of <br />the lower meadow are included in the Appendix B. <br />Ten and five cover samples were placed in the lower and upper meadows <br />respectively th proportion to their relative acreages (10.1 and 5.5 acres respectively). <br />Similarly, 20 and 10 woody stem quadrats were sampled. Two minor errors were <br />made in the production sampling. Only fifteen samples were collected in the upper <br />meadow, when 17 should have been. Thus the lower meadow is slightly <br />overrepresented. Also, only 49 samples were taken rather than 50. Both errors should <br />• have very minor impact on the results. Of greater concern regarding how the data may <br />relate to possible standards is the fact that it was collected in a high precipitation year. <br />According to of r do lim (published by the Colorado Climate Center, <br />Department of Atmospheric Sciences, CSU), June 1995 precipitation was 140% of <br />normal for Paonia. <br />Absolute cover (MEADOW): (Tables A5, B3) Overall, the community had <br />84.530 absolute vegetative cover, with less than half of that amount (35.3`% absolute <br />cover) being contributed by perennial, non-noxious species. <br />Relative cover (MEADOW): (Tables A10, Bfi) The relative cover data tend <br />to support the decision to consider the upper and lower meadows together as a single <br />• sampling unit. Eleven of the sixteen species that show up in the relative cover data for <br />18 <br />