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• i <br /> <br />Species Planted Survived % Survival <br />Mondale Pine 160 0 0% <br />Ponderosa Pine 47 2 <<;o <br />Pi~~yon Nine 46 4 9`/; <br />Blue Spruce 40 1 3% <br />Gambol Oak 42 21 50'/ <br />Mountain Mahogany 96 7 7% <br />Three-leaf Sumac 46 15 33% <br />Aspen 64 0 0% <br />Oregon Grape 41 3 7% <br />Fringed Sage 74 22 30% <br />*Indian Ricegrass 32 0 0% <br />Fourwing S~ltbush 46 13 28% <br />4loods Rose 37 5 14% <br />Rubber R~bbit~rush 10 26% <br />Total 810 <br />*The figures for Indian Ricegrass are misleading when one ob- <br />serves the predominant plant cover in this area. Indian <br />Ricegrass is pechaps one of the frost conspicuous plants here <br />along with Rabbitbrush and Russian Thistle, It offers some <br />erosion control and is high in palatability as a food source <br />for wildlife. This grass is one of the i~~ost valuable forage <br />grasses in the :Jest.3 It apparently moves in r~ell on its own, <br />Low survival rates are probably due to drought conditions <br />throu;hout 19u0-81 seasons. Hoti•:ev~~r,tfie drought resistant grass- <br />leourne send mir.ture which ti:,:s sc•~•rn in 1980 has proc'uced suf`icient <br />plant cover to ci~ecF: erosion,and provide some forage for ~~rildlife, <br />The species predomine~nt in thfs reve~etated area (Section 1): <br />St<-.nclard Crested !•;heatnrass--~gropyron desertorum <br />l•!es*_ern "he;.tgr_ss--:'.gropyron smithi'i <br />5 <br />