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• taken in association with the cover transects, thirty more were located independently, making a <br />total of fifty (50) samples. <br />Production samples within each reclaimed area or reference area totaled as follows: <br />Area Number of 0 5 sq m. Plots <br />1983 Reclaimed Areas 2 0 <br />1987 Reclaimed Areas 2 0 <br />1990 Reclaimed Areas 20 <br />1992 Reclaimed Areas none <br />Wadge Pasture 50 <br />Mountain Brush Reference Area 1 5 <br />Sagebrush Reference Area 1 5 <br />Clipped material was returned to the ESCO laboratory and dried at 105 oC for 24 hours, then <br />weighed to the nearest 0.1 gm. <br />• Shrub Density Sam~g -Reclaimed and Reference Areas <br />Shrub density sampling was undertaken in all reclamation areas, and the two reference areas. <br />Shrub density in reclaimed areas was measured within 2 x 50 m quadrats ("belt transects") <br />oriented along the cover transect (where a cover sample was also taken). Shrub density <br />sampling intensity in the reclaimed areas was in some cases greater than cover sampling, so <br />that in addition to the twenty to twenty-five shrub density samples taken along the cover <br />transects, up to twenty-five (25) more were located independently, making a total of as many <br />as fifty (50) such samples in reclaimed areas. Additional shrub density plots were located <br />randomly as previously discussed. In the two reference areas, no shrub sampling was <br />conducted, since it had been sampled very extensively in previous years and resulting data <br />would not have an effect on a woody plant density performance standard. It should be noted that <br />all big sagebrush encountered were referred to Seraphidium tridentatum. <br />. 3 <br />