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<br /> <br />• The Introduced Pasture vegetation type tends to occur on soils <br /> of Mapping Unit V4-CD (Big Blue clay loam, U to 6 pex~ent slopes). The <br />soils of this mapping unit are deep, poorly drained, and fine textux•ed. <br />The soils' surface layers are dark grayish brown clay loam to silty clay <br />to approximately is inches in depth. The subsoil is gray silty clay <br />about 90 inches thick. 'these soils occur on nearly leuel to gently <br />sloping low terraces and valley bottoms. <br />The :oil Conservation Service in the tviountain Meadow range <br />site description indicate this site has an approximate ground cover of <br />70 pexceut. The percentage canpnsition by weight of the princilxil <br />native species may total as much as: <br />Tufted hairorass 50 <br />Nebraska sedge 3G <br />Slender wheatgrass 20 <br />Walhead sedge 15 <br />• Haltic rush 5 <br />Other sedges acid rushes 5 <br />Other grasses 5 <br />Yarrow ) <br />Iris ) 5 <br />Herbaceous cinquefoll 5 <br />False Hellebore 5 <br />Uther forts 10 <br />Willows 10 <br />Other shrubs 5 <br />The total annual production in pounds per acre (air-dry) is: <br />Favorable years 4000 pounds per acre (air-dry) <br />Unfavorable years 200G pounds per acre (air-dry) <br />I~:edian years 3GG0 powrds per acre (aix•-dry) <br />- 9 - <br />• <br />