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~ • • <br /> <br />VEGETATION INVENTORY <br />' <br /> Potential of Site <br />' This site is called an Overflow range site. It is found <br /> along etrq¢meidea, are gently eloping to nearly level with <br /> elevatioa~ ranging from 3,000 to 6,000 feet. The potential <br />' native vegetation coneistes of big blueetem, avitchgrase, <br /> indimgrnee and prairie eendreed. Yestera vheatgrase produces <br />' the greatest percent of the composition. Blue grams, side-Data <br /> grams, slender vhentgresa end buffelograee are often abundant. <br />' Cnnnda xildrye, send dropeeed, red three-awn end squirrel tail <br /> occur leas ~equently. A thick growth of the above plants <br /> forme a gro~d cover of 50 to 55 percent. Annual prod}tcticn <br /> is median years could be 2,500 pounds per acre of air dry <br /> naterial. <br />t Plante goat likely to invade when site deteriorates ere: <br /> Kochia, Ruesiea thistle, chentgrass, Russian knapveed, stick- <br />' seed, CanaQn thistle and pibnreed. <br /> Canel~~{i pn <br />' Present Site Coaduc~ree <br /> Sea attached Range Condition Inventory. <br /> This vegetative inventory ie based on the species identifiable <br /> this tine of year. <br /> <br />based on the Boils end the <br />This Bits is in poor GO ~ *~ ~~ <br />' potential of the site. Forty-five percent of the annual <br /> production ie made up of invader species. These.nanuals are of low <br />' value for soil protection or ns forage for livestock. The <br /> reproduction of d9airable species ie good as is the amount of <br />' litter staying on the site. Plants of the potential plant <br /> community make up a low percentage of the present community. <br /> This could be improved with proper management. The vigor of <br /> all existing vegetation 1s about what would be expected for <br /> this site. There is not m erosion problem except when high <br />' eater from the stream floods the site. This has kept the <br /> [an ~tfeh <br />Bite in poor <br />1 <br />1 <br />-- - - - - --- _'- - ' - ...- . a i <br />