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e ESPEY, HUSTON b ASSOCIATES, INC. • Cover The vegetation of the mountain shrub community includes 72 species: 13 shrubs, 16 graminoids, and 43 forbs. Shrubs with a total cover of 41.2 percent represent the dominant life-form, followed by forbs (12.0 percent cover) and graminoids (11.9 percent cover). Total vegetation cover (shrubs plus herbs) was 65..1 percent; litter cover high at 41.9 percent; soil cover moderate at 20.2 percent; and rock cover moderate at 13.8 percent (see Table R-6). Serviceberry and snowberry aze codominant shrubs providing 12.2 and 11.1 percent cover, respectively. Other major shrubs present include Gambel oak (7.1 percent cover) which occurs most commonly at the higher elevations in the moister habitats and big sagebrush (95.8 percent cover). Less common shrubs aze: mountain mahogany (Cercocazpus montanus), rubber rabbitbrush, Douglas rabbit- brush, myrtle pachistima, chockcherry, antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata), • skunkbrush sumaz (Rhos trilobata), wax currant and Woods rose. • Cool season mid-grasses aze the dominant graminoids in the mountain shrub community. The dominants aze: native bluegrass (Pon agassizensis) (2.3 percent cover), western wheatgrass (2.0 percent cover) and slender wheatgrass (2.0 percent cover). Other common graminoids aze: elk sedge (Cazex cf. geyeri), Indian ricegrasa, quackgrass (Agropyron re ens), Lettermans needlegrass and Thurber fescue. Forb cover is not dominated by a pazticulaz species but is a hetero- geneous mixture of perennials. These aze: yarrow (1.5 percent cover), Pacific aster (1.5 percent), arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) (1.4 percent), and Oregon grape (Mahonia repens) (1.4 percent). Other common forbs aze prairie sage (Artemiaia ludoviciana), three-veined fleabane (Eri~_eron subtrinervis), bedstraw (Galium coloradoense), sweetpea (Lath_~us leucanthus) and mountain lupine. K-24