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The potential plant community consists of about 85 percent grasses, 5 percent <br />forbs, and 10 percent half shrubs, air dry weight. <br />Actual Vegetation Present <br />The proposed clay pit site was visited in early September of 1997 by Leon Kot <br />of the Natural Resources Conservation Service for the purposes of determining the <br />actual vegetation present. Attached is a copy of the vegetation inventory for the site <br />listed on form CO-ECS-2. As indicated on the form, the site was determined to be in <br />fair condition from an ecological standpoint. The plant community was determined to <br />be approximately 46 percent grasses and sedges, and 54 percent forbs and shrubs. <br />The mean vegetation density was estimated to be 37 percent. The current total annual <br />vegetation production was estimated to be about 775 pounds per acre, air-dry; the <br />annual usable yield was estimated to be about 225 pounds per acre, air-dry, and the. <br />annual palatable yield estimated to be about 550 pounds per acre, air-dry. <br />-21-