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• higher than cover values for the reference areas. <br />Total production in the areas seeded in 1978 was 494.8 g/m2. <br />Alfalfa accounted for 38.3 percent of the total, cicer milkvetch <br />accounted for 13.7 percent and introduced perennial grasses accounted <br />for 44.6 percent. Native perennial grass ea and other forbs accounted <br />for less than 5 percent of the total (Table 15). Total production <br />was greater than total production in either of the reference areas. <br />Total shrub density in the 1978 areas was 1040 shrubs per <br />hectare (421 shrubs per acre) (Table 16). Approximately 90 percent <br />of the density was attributable to big sagebrush. Mean height for <br />big sagebrush was 57 cm. <br />Areas Seeded in 1979. The areas seeded in 1979 (Figure 5) were <br />seeded with the mix presented in Table 17 and were planted with <br />• shrubs listed in Table 18. Of the grass and forb species that were <br />planted, all were observed except for western wheatgrass and•Russian <br />wildrye (Elymua junceua). Of the shrubs that were planted only <br />mountain snowberry was observed. Mountain big sagebrush occurs on <br />the reclaimed areas, however they have become established from seeds <br />from the surrounding native vegetation. In all, 50 species were <br />observed growing in the areas seeded in 1979 (Table 19). The ~ <br />dominant species on the 1979 areas was alfalfa (32.5 percent mean <br />cover; 93.3 percent frequency). The cover values for alfalfa were <br />the highest for any of the reclaimed areas. Smooth brome (10.7 <br />percent mean cover; 100.0 percent frequency), intermediate wheatgrass <br />(5.7 percent mean cover; 73.3 percent frequency), cicer milkvetch <br />(5.6 percent mean cover; 60.0 percent frequency) and Kentucky <br />• bluegrass (2.1 percent mean cover; 73.3 percent frequency) were the <br />39 <br />