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EXHIBIT 5 <br />Plant Cover. The results obtained from the sampling of the 6 plant cover transects on this area <br />are presented in Table 2.04.10 -6, Wetland Predisturbance Area - Plant Cover. Total plant cover <br />on this site averaged 5 9. 00 percent and litter cover averaged 3 8.3 3 percent. <br />Native perennial grasses were the dominant plant life form encountered on this site, <br />contributing 55.17 percent of the total plant cover and 93.50 percent of the total relative cover <br />found on this site. Native perennial forbs were the second most dominant plant life form, <br />contributing 2.17 percent of the total plant cover and 3.67 percent of the total relative cover. <br />Native shrubs contributed 1.17 percent of the total plant cover and 1.98 percent of the total <br />relative cover. Noxious weeds contributed 0.80 percent of the total plant cover and 0.85 <br />percent of the total relative cover found on this area. <br />Desert Saltgrass, a native perennial grass was the dominant plant species encountered, <br />contributing 25.99 percent of the total relative plant cover found on this site. The other <br />dominant plants encountered were: Spreading Bentgrass, Tall Fescue, Nebraska Sedge, and <br />Reed Canarygrass which contributed: 17.23, 9.60, 8.76, 7.06 and 5.65 percent, respectively, of <br />the total relative cover on this area. <br />The locations of the 6 cover transects sampled in the Wetland Predisturbance Area are shown <br />on Map 3, Permit Area Vegetation Map. The sample adequacy calculations in Table 2.04.10 -2, <br />Loadout Area - Sample Adequacy Calculations, document that the number of samples required <br />to describe this site with respect to plant cover at the 90 percent confidence interval was 14.3 <br />transects. <br />Production. The results obtained from the sampling of 6 production transects on this area are <br />summarized in Table 2.04.10 -7, Wetland Predisturbance Area - Production. The average total <br />herbaceous forage production equaled 66.82 g/1 /4 m2 or 2,381.5 pounds of air dry-dry forage <br />per acre. Perennial grasses contributed 61.69 g/1 /4 m2 or 92.32 percent of the total herbaceous <br />forage. Perennial forbs, contributed 4.65 g/1 /4 m2 or 6.96 percent of the total herbaceous forage <br />production. Annual forbs, contributed 0.48 g/1 /4 m2 or 0.72 percent of the herbaceous forage <br />production. <br />The locations of the 6 production transects sampled on this site are shown on Map 3, Permit <br />Area Vegetation Map. The sample adequacy calculations in Table 2.04.10 -2, Loadout Area - <br />Sample Adequacy Calculations, document that the number of samples required to describe this <br />site in terms of total herbaceous forage production at the 90 percent confidence interval was <br />14.1 transects. <br />Shrub Density. The shrub density counts obtained from the 6 belt transects sampled in this <br />area are summarized in Table 2.04.10 -8, Wetland Predisturbance Area - Shrub Density. The <br />average shrub density was determined to equal 1.83 shrubs per one hundred square meters or <br />74.1 shrubs per acre. Greasewood and Saltcedar were the only shrubs encountered in the shrub <br />density transect sampling effort. <br />13 <br />