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1 <br />' Herbaceous Production: <br />' Page 113ii indicates that one meter square quadrats would <br />be used in estimating total herbaceous productivity. However, <br />' the herbaceous component of the reclaimed areas was well <br />enough developed (or dominant) that quarter meter squared <br />' plots were used instead. All current annual herbaceous <br />production rooted within each randomly located quadrat was <br />' clipped, bagged and separated according to life form. The <br />' life forms included perennial and annual grasses, perennial <br />and annual forbs, and noxious weeds. (In the riparian area, <br />(~'•~•_;+~.Equisetum arvense was encountered, necessitating the <br />establishment of an additional category). Sample adequacy was <br />not determined in the field. Instead, the maximum 15 samples <br />were collected in each of the reclaimed areas. <br />Following completion of the field work, all production <br />t samples were initially air dried and then oven-dried at 105 <br />degrees Fahrenheit to a constant weight. <br />1 <br />' Species Diversity: <br />' Species diversity was determined from cover data. During <br />' cover sampling, all vegetation hits (first, second, third...) <br />were recorded for use in calculating relative species cover <br />upon which the species diversity standard was based and was to <br />4 <br />1 <br />