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INTENSIVELY MANAGED IRRIGATED PASTURE. <br />The years sampling results from this site are presented in the following discussion. <br />Plant Cover. Total plant cover on this site in 2011 averaged 94.00 percent and litter averaged <br />6.00 percent (Appendix Table 2.04.10B -1, Garvey Property 2011 - Intensively Managed <br />Irrigated Pasture - Plant Cover.) <br />Perennial grasses dominated the plant cover on this site, contributing 72.33 percent of the total <br />cover or 76.95 percent of the total relative cover on this site. Perennial forbs contributed 20.80 <br />percent of the total cover and contributed 22.13 percent of the total relative cover on this site. <br />Noxious weeds contributed 0.80 percent or 0.85 percent of the total relative cover on this site. <br />Annuals/biennials, contributed 0.07 percent of the total cover or 0.07 percent of the total relative <br />cover on this site (Appendix Table 2.04.10B -1, Garvey Property 2011 - Intensively Managed <br />Irrigated Pasture - Plant Cover.) <br />Tall Fescue, an introduced pasture grass, was the dominant plant species growing on this site, <br />contributing 55.82 percent of the total relative cover on this site. Alsike Clover, Kentucky <br />Bluegrass, Alfalfa, and Strawberry Clover, and were the other dominant species on this site, <br />contributing 7.80, 7.59, 6.95 and 6.74 percent, respectively, of the total relative cover on this <br />area (Appendix Table 2.04.10B -1, Garvey Property 2011 - Intensively Managed Irrigated <br />Pasture - Plant Cover.) . <br />The locations of the 15 cover transects sampled on this site are shown on Appendix Map <br />2.04.10 -6, Garvey Property 2011 - Intensively Managed Irrigated Pasture - Vegetation Transect <br />Map. The sample adequacy calculations reveal that the number of samples required to describe <br />the parameter of total plant cover on this site at the 90 percent confidence interval was 0.2 <br />transects. <br />When this site was sampled in 2009, total plant cover on this site averaged 92.13 percent and <br />litter averaged 6.74 percent. In the 2010 sampling, total plant cover averaged 95.33 percent and <br />litter averaged 4.47 percent. <br />Perennial grasses dominated the plant cover on this site in 2009, contributing 56.33 percent of <br />the total cover or 61.36 percent of the total relative cover on this site. In the 2010 sampling, <br />perennial grasses contributed 69.67 percent of the total cover or 73.09 percent of the total <br />relative cover on this site. In 2009, perennial forbs contributed 34.33 percent of the total cover <br />and contributed 37.27 percent of the total relative cover on this site. In 2010, perennial forbs <br />contributed 22.67 percent of the total cover and contributed 23.77 percent of the total relative <br />cover on this site. Noxious weeds in 2009, contributed 1.27 percent or 1.37 percent of the total <br />relative cover on this site. While in the 2010 sampling, noxious weeds contributed 3.00 percent <br />or 3.14 percent of the total relative cover on this site. No annuals or biennials, were encountered <br />in the plant cover sampling on this site in 2009 or 2010. . <br />Tall Fescue, was the dominant plant species growing on this site in all three sample periods, <br />contributing 39.29 percent of the total relative cover on this site in 2009, 48.96 percent of the <br />total relative cover on this site in 2010 and 55.82 percent of the total relative cover on this site in <br />2011. <br />Production. The results obtained from the 30 production transects sampled on this site in 2011 <br />6 <br />