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RANGE SITE No. 303 Page 2 <br />LOAMY SLOPES <br />August 1975 <br />Native (potential) Vegetation and Guide for Determining Range <br />' Condition. <br />' ~:. <br />r'~ _.* .,o,.., <br />~~~~A } <br />,~'F r.~ <br />rr'~~.~, <br />r-~S ~~ <br />... <br />4 <br />Percentage composition by weight of the principal species may <br />total as much as: <br />Grasses and grasslike: <br />Bluebunch wheatgrass 10 -/S <br />Vestern wheatgrass 10 <br />Prairie Junegrass 10 <br />Indian ricegrass 10 <br />Bottlebrush squirrel[ail 5 <br />• Hut[ong rass+ er~icr i:.. *~.4 ~.ir.!'. :-JAI/-l.. 5-/~% <br />Needle-and-thread and other natives 5-~a <br />Forbs: <br />Indian paintbrush ) <br />Arrowleaf balsamroot ) <br />Low larkspur } <br />Longleaf phlox _ ) 10 <br />Buckwheat ) <br />Fremont penstemon ) <br />Scarlet globemallow ) <br />Shrubs: <br />Hountain mahogany 15 <br />Antelope bitterbrush IS <br />Serviceberry 10 <br />Big sagebrush 10 <br />Douglas rabbltbrush S <br />Snowberry and other nattives 5 <br />~cl~d.::g cak <br />This site may have scattered pinyon pine and/or Utah juniper. <br />Optimum ground cover is 25 percent. <br />Invaders of Ch is site are chea[grass, cactus, thistle species, <br />plus numerous other annual species ~+hich move in as the plant <br />community deteriorates. <br />Total Annual Production <br />Favorable years 1200 Pound per Acre Air Dry <br />Unfavorable years 500 " <br />Median years 900 " " " <br /> <br />• <br />~~ <br /> <br />