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<br /> <br /> Cover in Percent <br />' 1994 Area 1988 Area Combined <br /> SQ 50 v9 <br />' Total Vegetation Cover <br />Litter and Rock Combined 26.7 <br />39.7 +/- <br />+/- 5.16 <br />1.51 32.9 <br />47.0 +(- <br />+/- 7.87 <br />9.50 31.0 <br />44.8 +f- <br />+/- 7.61 <br />8.62 <br /> Bare Soil 33.7 +/- 4.27 20.1 +/- 8.47 24.2 +/- 9.71 <br /> Total Ground Cover (Total <br />' Vegetation + Litter) 66.3 +/- 4.27 79.9 +/- 8.47 75.8 +/- 9.71 <br />' In 1995 the dominant species on the reclaimed areas were Rueeian <br />' wildrye (Elymus junceus), thickspike wheatgraes (Agropyron <br />dasystachyum), big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) and green <br />needlegrase (Stipa viridula). For the combined data for the two <br />' reclaimed areas (Table 5), these four species accounted for 95.8 percent- <br /> of the cover by all species. In all, 27 species were observed in the <br /> reclaimed areas. There are some differences between the areas reclaimed <br /> in 1984 and 1988. In the 1984 area, green needlegraes_and_big_eagebrueh <br />' are more abundant than in the 1988 area. Rueeian wildrye and thickspike <br /> wheatgraes are more abundant in the 1988 area than they are in the 1984 <br /> area. The greater abundance of big sagebrush in the 1984 area may be <br />' related to the differences in ages of the two areas, however the cover <br /> data collected over the past seven years suggests that big sagebrush is <br /> increasing in cover very slowly in the 1988 area. In 1995, big <br /> sagebrush was the major species in the area seeded in 1984 and accounted <br /> for 64.9_percent of the cover by all species in that area. Mean cover <br />' for big sagebrush increased from 8 percent in 1993 to 20 percent in 1994 <br /> and decreased slightly to 17.3 percent in 1995. While this difference <br />' may be related to alight differences in sample traneect location, it ie <br />1 <br />-3- <br />