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and native shrubs. Also present were native perennial (orbs and native perennial warm season <br />•. grasses. <br />Total vegetation cover for the area was 43 percent. The remainder was shared by standing dead <br />(1.8%), litter (32.1%), bare soil (20.3%), and rock (2.8%). Species density averaged 19.3 species <br />per 100 sq.m. <br />PRODUCTION <br />(Table 11) <br />Total production in the PECOCO pasture grazing unit in 2003 was 2,237.6 Ibs/acre. Alfalfa <br />averaged 235.5 Ibslacre while all other herbaceous species added up to 2,003.9 Ibs/acre. <br />WOODY PLANT DENSITY <br />(Table 12) <br />An average of 226.6 stems of native shrubs per acre were observed in 2003. The most abundant <br />shrub observed was mountain snowberry with 198.3 stems/acre. Big sagebrush and Arkansas <br />rose were also observed with an average of 16.2 and 12.1 stems/acre, respectively. <br />Wadge Pasture Reclaimed Area <br />• (Photographs 17-20) <br />COVER <br />(Table 13) <br />Introduced perennial cool season grasses, composed of six species, averaged over 64% of total <br />vegetation cover in the Wadge Pasture in 2003. Three-fifths of the lifeform total was provided by <br />smooth brome while less than two-fifths of the total was attributable to intermediate wheatgrass. <br />Orchard grass, crested wheatgrass, and Kentucky bluegrass comprised the balance. Introduced <br />perennial forbs were also abundant in the area, occupying an average of 12.7% of total <br />vegetation cover, mostly by alfalfa (8.24% of total vegetation cover) and titer milkvetch (4.12%). <br />Introduced annual and biennial forbs accounted for 7.7 percent of total vegetation cover. Of this, <br />over half was occupied by Jim Hill mustard while the remaining half was shared by several <br />species, including salsify (Tragopogon dubius ssp. major) and pennycress. Composing 7.2 <br />percent of total vegetation cover were native shrubs. This lifeform was occupied predominantly <br />by big sagebrush (6.63 percent total vegetation cover) but mountain snowberry and douglas <br />rabbitbrush were also encountered quantitatively. Present with under 7 percent tptal vegetation <br />cover were native perennial forbs, native perennial cool season grasses, and introduced annual <br />• 10 <br />