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• Total vegetation cover was 37.8 percent. Cover by standing dead, litter, and bare soil averaged <br />7.5, 25.7, and 29 percents, respectively. Species density was 22.9 species per 100 sq.m. <br />PRODUCTION <br />(Table 17) <br />Total herbaceous production in the Alkali Sagebrush Reference Area in 2004 was 606.7 pounds <br />per acre. None of this was attributable to alfalfa. <br />Mountain Brush Reference Area <br />(Photograph 25, 27, & 28) <br />COVER <br />(Table 18) <br />Seventy percent of total vegetation cover was due to native shrubs. Approximately 1/3`d of total <br />vegetation cover each was due to Saskatoon serviceberry and Gambel's oak (Quercus gambeli~). <br />Snowberry also occupied significant cover. Native perennial cool season grasses and gramincids <br />and native perennial (orbs each contributed 11.6% to total vegetation cover. Dominant within the <br />graminoids was elk sedge (Carex geyen). There was not one species of perennial forb occupying <br />. a significant amount of cover. Dominants were nettle-leaf giant hyssop (Agastache urticifolia), <br />western aniseroot (Osmorhiza occidentalis), and violet (Viola sp.). Houndstongue and Canada <br />thistle were also observed in this area. <br />Total vegetation cover was 82.5 percent. Standing dead, litter, and bare soil each contributed <br />1.9, 9.4, and 6.2 percents. Species density averaged 36.1 species per 100 sq.m. <br />PRODUCTION <br />(Table 19) <br />Herbaceous production averaged 663.8 pounds per acre in 2004. No alfalfa was observed <br />Sagebrush Reference Area <br />(Photographs 26, 29, and 30) <br />COVER <br />(Table 20) <br />Native shrubs composed 42.2 percent of total vegetation cover in 2004. This total was nearly <br />split by snowberry and big sagebrush. Douglas rabbitbrush, Saskatoon serviceberry, and alkali <br />• '11 <br />