PERMFILE118599

• Permit No: C1981026
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: VEGETATION INFORMATION
• Section_Exhibit Name: APPENDIX F
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

• Hoods phlox and longleaf aster are the dominant forbs while alkali
sage and douglas rabbitbrush are the dominant shrubs.
Cover. A summary of vegetative cover for lifeform for the
1979 and 1980 growing seasons for the permit area and reference area
is presented in Table 2F. For the 1979 growing season grasses
comprised 128 of the total cover, forbs 1.58, half-shrubs 3,08
shrubs 12.0$, succulents 0.58, xanthoparmelia 3.58, litter 6.08
and bareground 61.58. For the 1980 growing season grasses comprised
16.08 of the total cover, grasslike 1.08, perennial forbs 3.08,
half-shrubs 6.58, shrubs 12.58, 148 litter, 468 bareground and 18
rock. Total vegetative cover for the 1979 and 1980.
Species composition is sported in Table 7F. These values
represent relative cover estimates taken during 1980. Cover data
by species is reported for the permit area and 2.0 acre reference
area. Letterman needlegrass is the dominant grass comprising 8.08
• of the cover of the reference area and 9.08 of the permit area.
Prairie junegrass cover was estimated at 5.08 and 3.58 of the
reference area and permit area respectively. Western wheatgrass's
cover was 3.08 and 2.58 for the reference area and permit area.
Squirreltail had a relative cover of 2.58 in the reference area and
1.08 in the permit area.
Hoods phlox had a relative cover
rabbitbrush and alkali sagebrush were
Douglas rabbitbrush comprised 6.08 of
reference area and 6.58 on the permit
comprised 9.08 of the relative cover ~
on the permit area.
of 2.08 in both areas. Douglas
the only shrubs recorded.
the relative cover on the
area. Alkali sagebrush
~n the reference area and 12.58
Production. A summary of alkali sagebrush production for
two growing seasons is presented on Table 4F. A summary of statis-
tical analysis for production is presented on Tables 1GF and 11F.

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