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<br />Herbaceous Production: <br />The 1987 Findings Document indicates that quarter meter <br />• <br />square quadrats would be used in estimating total herbaceous <br />productivity. At each location, five plots (A through E for <br />each sample location) were placed randomly along the length of <br />a randomly oriented 25 meter transect. Thus, plots were <br />located on a stratified-random design and each individual <br />production plot was considered to be a single sample unit. <br />A11 current annual herbaceous production rooted within each <br />randomly located quadrat was clipped, bagged and separated <br />according to life form. The life forms included perennial and <br />annual grasses, perennial and annual forbs, and noxious <br />weeds. <br />Following completion of the field work, all production <br />samples were initially air dried and then oven-dried at 110 <br />degrees Fahrenheit to a constant weight. <br />Initially, it was assumed that, as outlined in the <br />• <br />Division's Vegetation Guidelines, a maximum number of <br />production plots would be sampled. Seventy plots were <br />sampled, exceeding the usual maximum of 50 samples. However, <br />the Division (and the 1987 Findings Document) required that <br />sampling acheive adequacy. When it was determined that <br />sample adequacy was not acheived from the seventy dried <br />samples already collected, the site was again visited on <br />3 <br />