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• Cover in the Mountain Brush Reference Area was dominated by Gambel's oak (14.5 percent <br />cover), serviceberry (13.2 percent cover), and mountain snowberry (10.9 percent cover). <br />The only other shrub present with any substantial amount of cover was chokecherry (2.5 <br />percent cover). The only herbaceous species making substantial individual contributions to <br />cover were elk sedge (1.2 percent cover), Agassiz bluegrass (10.1 percent cover), western <br />yarrow (1.9 percent cover), nettleleaf gianthyssop (1.5 percent cover), showy daisy (1.6 <br />percent cover), horsemint (4.8 percent cover), northern bedstraw (1.1 percent cover), and <br />Astoria violet (0.9 percent cover). Litter comprised 18.7 percent cover, while bare soil was <br />6.4 percent cover. <br />In the Sagebrush Reference Area, cover was dominated by the shrubs, basin and mountain big <br />sagebrush (15.2 percent cover) and mountain snowberry (5.7 percent cover); tour grasses <br />including sheep fescue (16.1 percent cover), Agassiz bluegrass (9.1 percent cover), slender <br />wheatgrass (3.1 percent cover), and Montana wheatgrass (2.3 percent cover), and the (orbs <br />Pacific aster (4.4 percent cover), fringed thistle (1.2 percent cover), and timber milkvetch <br />(1.6 percent cover). Litter was modestly abundant at 23.9 percent cover, and, bare soil <br />• comprised 6.1 percent cover. <br />Production <br />Production data from the 1992 monitoring studies are presented in Tables 11 through 18. Data <br />are summarized in Table 42, and graphically displayed in Figure 2. <br />Highest herbaceous biomass production was measured in the 1988 Wolf Creek area (3405 <br />oven-dry lbs. per acre), closely followed by Wadge Pasture '91 (3239 oven-dry lbs. per <br />acre), Wadge Pasture (3164 oven-dry lbs. per acre), and the 1985 Wolf Creek (3126 oven- <br />dry lbs. per acre). The 1985 and 1988 Wadge reclamation areas (1599 and 1950 lbs. per <br />acre, respectively) were distinctly lower than the other reclaimed areas. This reverses the <br />trend observed in recent years for the Wolf Creek production levels to be lower than those of the <br />Wadge reclamation. All reclaimed areas had production greater than either the Mountain Brush <br />or Sagebrush Reference Areas. <br />• to <br />