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it <br />APPendu A -Vegetation Sampling jor 1998 <br />reference area, and 3.72 and 9.53 percent of the disturbed area for June and September, <br />' respectively. The values presented for the June sampling on the reclaimed area are derived from <br />the revised data set on Table A-6. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Table A-3 <br />Summary of Relative Cover Values <br />CCM#1 - 1998 Point-Intercept Transects <br />Reclaimed <br />Area Sampling <br />Event <br /> <br />Perennial Grasses <br />Relative <br />Cover <br />Perennial <br />Forbs & Shrubs <br />Relative <br />Cover <br />June Russian wild-rye 26.97 Alfalfa - 3.75 <br /> Slender wheatgrass 14.98 Scarlet globemallow 0.75 <br /> Western wheatgrass 14.61 Common horehound 0.37 <br /> Smooth brome 11.61 Curlycup gumweed 0.37 <br /> Crested wheatgrass 8.99 Winterfat 3.37 <br /> Thickspike wheatgrass 4.87 g • ~ S <br /> Blue grams 3.00 <br /> ,,r <br />$G.~ <br />September Russian wild-rye 27.51 Alfalfa 3.70 <br /> Blue grams 13.76 Cicer milkvetch 0.53 <br /> Slender wheatgrass 10.58 Common horehound 0.53 <br /> Smooth brome 8.47 Curlycup gumweed 0.53 <br /> Side-oats grams 6.88 Winterfat 4.76 <br /> Western wheatgrass 5.82 io,o~ <br /> Green needlegrass 4.23 <br /> Sand dropseed 1.5~ <br />' ~ S0~`+~ <br />During the June sampling event, unmanaged grazing on the disturbed area led to the mis- <br />identification of vegetative species encountered. In particular, side-oats grams was incorrectly / <br />' identified as grazed wheatgrasses. The September sampling event detected a total of ten grasses <br />on the disturbed area. Of those grasses, seven were cool-season and three were warm-season. <br />A total of seven out of the ten grasses surveyed comprised a relative cover of 3.0 percent or <br />greater. Blue grams and side-oats grams comprised 13.76 and 6.88 percent of the relative <br />Bond053 1999-OSJ.wpolFebrwry 26,1999 A-9 <br /> <br />