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<br />• VEGETATION INVENTGRY <br />The three mine sites inventoried have about the same <br />vegetative IDakeup. The Lariat Mine has more of a foot- <br />hills vegetation with shrubs and forbs dominating the <br />landscape. The North and South Chieftan Mines have more <br />o£ a plains vegetation as evidenced by the lack of a <br />shrub community except on the brews sites. Production <br />with all vegetation is higher on the Lariat Mine site, <br />The plant community is also more deversified at the <br />lariat Mine. All the plants on the three mine sites <br />could not be identified because many annual and some <br />warm season perennial grass will not show up until later. <br />Grasses Forbs and Shrubs on the North and South Chieftan Mines. <br />Grasses <br />Sixweeks Fescue <br />Western Nheat <br />Blue grams <br />Buffalo Grass <br />Sun Sedge <br />Cheatgrass <br />• Ring Muhly <br />Needle ~ Thread <br />Indian Ricegrass <br />(North Chieftan) <br />Little Bluestem <br />(North Chieftan) <br />Junegrass <br />Japanese Brome <br />Forbs Shrubs <br />Kochia Snakexeed <br />Russian Thistle Rabbit brush <br />Dandelion Yucca <br />Cudxeed Sage Mta. Mahogany <br />(No Chieftan.) <br />Curlq Cup Gumueed Prickly Pear. <br />Annual Sunflower Fringed Sage <br />Dotted Gap Feather Arkansas Rose <br />Penstomea Spp. <br />r~ <br />L <br />