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cool season grasses were the second most abundant group (15.6% cover), <br />• dominated by Agassiz bluegrass (7.1 % cover) and slender wheatgrass (3% <br />cover). Native perennial forbs were the third most abundant lifeform (9.9% <br />coverj, having numerous species with low percent cover values and no dominant <br />species. Tailcup lupine, American vetch (Vicia americana), and Northern <br />bedstraw (Galium septentrionale) had the highest percent cover values of this <br />group (2.0%, 1.7%, and 1.4%, respectively). In general, this area was heavily <br />vegetated, with little bare ground or rock. <br />Total average vegetation cover, for first hits, was 65.4%. Herbaceous vascular <br />plant cover, for all hits, was 28.8%. Standing dead, litter, bare soil, and rock <br />each had 1.5%, 19.9%, 12%, and 1.2% cover, respectively (first hits). Average <br />species density was 28.3 species/100 sq.m. <br />PRODUCTION <br />(Table 10) <br />. No alfalfa was present in our sample. Total average production of all other <br />species was 1,366.841bs/acre. <br />Sagebrush Extended Reference Area <br />{Photographs 17-20) <br />COVER <br />(Table 11) <br />Native shrubs were most abundant in the Sagebrush Reference Area, making up <br />37.4% of the total 62% vegetation cover. Within this group, alkali sagebrush and <br />mountain snowberry were most common, having 19.1 % and 14.9% total cover, <br />respectively. Native perennial forbs were the second most common life form <br />(11.7% cover), comprised by numerous species with low percent cover values <br />and lacking dominant species. Weedy milkvetch (Astragalus miser var. <br />• oblongifolius), taik:up lupine (Lupines caudatus), chokecherry lupine (Lupines <br />prunophilus), and arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) had the highest <br />percent cover values of the native perennial forbs (2.9%, 2.4%, 1.4%, and 1,2%, <br />11 <br />