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Total percent vegetation basal cover on the revegetation plot was 9.38 <br />while total canopy rover was 29.4$. Bare c~round accounted for 28.9 <br />weer while litter-rock contributed 37.68. A total of 27 sp=_cies were • <br />enwuntere3 in cover quadrats; Shannon-Weiner species diversity index <br />was 2.10. The forb stratum accounted for 68.88 of the total vegetation <br />basal Dover and 78.98 of the canopy Dover. The grass and shrub stratum <br />was represented by 2.78 basal rover (29.08 of total vegetation rover) <br />while shrub Dover wntributed 0.2~ basal Dover and 2.1~ total rover. The <br />forb stratum was dominated by alfalfa which accounted for allmst 60~ <br />of the forb stratum basal cover. This species was enwuntere3 in 57~ <br />of the quadrats surveyed. Other wcmion fo:cb species enwuntere3 were <br />yellow sweetclover (0.58 basal rover), cocnron Russianthistle (Salsola <br />kali) (x.08 basal wver),and European stickseed (I,appula echinata) (0.3$ <br />basal cover). Smooth brcme was the most wtnron grass species occurring <br />in 28.08 of the quadrats and accounting fo:r 1.4~ basal rover (51.45 <br />total grass Dover). Desert wheatgrass (A~c~ropyron desertorum), quackgrass <br />and Japanese brave (Hram~s japonicas) were also common grasses accounting <br />for 0.9, 0.4 and 0.38 basal cover, respectively. Three shrubs were <br />Enwuntered in Dover quadrats; Basin big sagebrush (Artsnisia tridentata <br />v. tridentata, rubber rabbitbrush (C sothaRmus nauseosus) and mountain • <br />snowberry (Syr~horicarpos oreophilus). A1:L were seedlings or younc plants <br />and accounted for 2.18 of the total basal rover. <br />Total production on the site was high, 195!3.4 lbs/acre. The forb stratum <br />accounted for 78.08 of the total production while grasses an3 shrubs <br />wntributed 21.9 and 0.28, respectively. Alfalfa was by far the most <br />productive species on the site acwunting for 83$ of the forb production <br />and 64.78 of the total production. Other (orbs well represented in <br />production samples were oomron Russianthistle (4.28 of total production), <br />yellow sweetclover (3.58) and prickly lettuce (Lactuca scariola) (2.28). <br />The most productive grass species was smooth. brume which accounted for <br />90.0$ of the grass production and 8.88 of i1-ie total production. Other <br />comron grasses included quackgrass (5.28 of- total production), desert <br />wheatgrass (3.7$), orchardgrass (0.98) and :intermediate wheatgrass (0.9~). <br />Average percent moisture ~,ras 49.08 for grasses and 58.2 for forbs. <br />• <br />-16- <br />