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e <br />ESPEY, HUSTON & ASSOCIATES, INC. <br />• <br />unit was approximately 40 feet), covered the entire study azea. A two-digit number <br />was used for each x and y value. Points were located on the map using two numbers <br />from a table of random numbers (Hodgman, 1960). <br />2.2.2 Collection andCollection and Anal~is of Cover Dataof Cover Data <br />Each plant community was quantitatively sampled during the months of <br />July, August and September, 1979• Aline transect and quadrat method was used. <br />The location of the sample site and the orientation of the line transect were both <br />randomly determined. The orientation of transects was determined by selecting a <br />three-digit number under 360 from a table of random numbers. A compass was then <br />used to align the transect in the compass direction of the selected number. <br />Cover was estimated using a 25-meter line transect. Shrub cover was <br />recorded per species by measuring to the neazest centimeter shrub canopy intercept <br />• along the 25-meter tape (Canfield, 1941). The height of the shrub intercept over <br />the transect was recorded from 25 "microplots" (20 x 50 centimeter) spaced at <br />1-meter intervals along the line transect. Percent cover was estimated indepen- <br />dently for each herb and for soil, litter, rock, and moss. Cover within the <br />microplots was estimated and analyzed according to quantitative techniques <br />developed by Daubenmire (1968). <br />At the time of sampling, slope, aspect and elevation were determined for <br />each cover site. An Abney inclinometer was used to determine slope, a compass was <br />used for aspect and a USGS map was used for elevation. The location of each <br />transect is plotted on the plant community map, Exhibit K-1'. Cover data for each <br />transect appeazs in the Appendix. <br />U <br />R-5 <br />