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4.5.3 Revegetation Success Criteria and Statistical Procedures - Reclaimed Irrigated <br />Pastureland <br />Revegetation will be deemed adequate if vegetation cover and herbaceous production at the <br />reclaimed site is at least 90% of the vegetative cover at the reference area and herbaceous <br />production is at least 90% of the reference area standard, after the weighted average soil <br />adjustment, in conformance with DRMS Regulations 4.15.8. The weighted average factor will be <br />applied to production only. One of the three statistical comparison methods in DRMS Regulations <br />4.15.11(2) subsections (a), (b), or (c) will be used, according to the following procedures. <br />For a quality standard, the following is proposed: <br />At least 75% of the relative production will be comprised of seeded species or species of <br />comparable quality as livestock forage. County listed noxious weed species will not be counted <br />toward the success standard for cover or production in any reclaimed or reference areas. For the <br />purposes of this demonstration, a statistically adequate production sample will be taken, or a <br />minimum of 30 observations. <br />Sample adequacy will be tested during field sampling using the formula in DRMS Regulation <br />4.15.11(2)(a), as follows: <br />t 2 S 2 <br />n m - ( (H`2 <br />where: <br />n,,, = minimum sample size <br />s = Sample variance (n -1 degrees of freedom) <br />d = Precision (0.10 for cover and production; 0.15 for woody <br />plant density) <br />x = Sample arithmetic mean <br />t = The (a =.10) t -table value for a 1 tail t -test, n -1 degrees of <br />freedom (infinite degrees of freedom may be used if n >30) <br />n = Sample size <br />PR -06 June 2010 2.05.4(2)(e) - 31 <br />