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• standard (36.0) and thus qualifies the site for next years <br />1 <br />`- bond release consideration. <br />Annual grasses and forbs contributed only 0.5 o absolute <br />cover. Noxious weeds contributed 0.6 ~ absolute cover and <br />were intercepted by sampling on only one of the fourteen <br />transects. Both of these values in conjunction with the fact <br />that annuals and noxious weeds composed only 3.1 o relative <br />cover are indicative that the reclamation efforts at the mine <br />sites have resulted in healthy, stable vegetation. Perennial <br />grass and forb cover were sampled at 26.0 o and 11.7 ~ <br />respectively. <br />• <br />Production (Table 2; summary in Tables 3A - 3C). <br />Total production was found to be 47.4 grams per 1/4 <br />square meter, or 1692 pounds per acre. Perennial, non-noxious <br />plant species composed the bulk of that total (94.7 ~) with <br />44.9 grams/1/4 square meter or 1603 pounds per acre. This <br />latter amount exceeds the standard of 1600 pounds per acre. <br />Table 3C lists the relative contributions of each life <br />form to the total production value. Perennial grasses and <br />forbs contributed 79.3 and 15.4 % respectively of the <br />• production, or 94.7 ~ combined. Annual grasses, annual forbs, <br />and noxious weeds all contributed individually less than 2.0 ~ <br />7 <br />