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Appendix 1 -Table 7, Irrigated Pasture Reclaimed Area IP -4 - Plant Cover found on page 23 of the 2010 report. "Allowable plant cover" averaged 81.00 percent. According to the sample adequacy equation found in Rule 4.15.11(2)(a), sample adequacy at the 90 percent confidence level, for "allowable plant cover" was achieved with 0.5 transects and 15 transects were sampled. The plant cover data for the Irrigated Pasture Reference Area are found on Appendix 1 - Table 3, Irrigated Pasture Reference Area - Plant Cover found on page 19 of the 2010 report. The data relative to the percent absolute cover by species, rock, bare ground, litter and relative cover data are found in Appendix 1 - Table 3, Irrigated Pasture Reference Area - Plant Cover found on page 19 of the 2010 report. "Allowable plant cover" averaged 58.87 percent. According to the sample adequacy equation found in Rule 4.15.11(2)(a), sample adequacy at the 90 percent confidence level, for "allowable plant cover" was achieved with 12.2 transects and 15 transects were sampled. The production data for the second years' sampling of Irrigated Pasture Reclaimed Area (IP -3) are found in Table 6, Irrigated Pasture Reclaimed Area IP -3 - Production, found on page 22 of the 2010 report. The production of desirable perennial grasses and perennial forbs are found in Appendix 1 - Table 6, Irrigated Pasture Reclaimed Area IP - 3 - Production. The production of desirable plants averaged 82.64 grams per quarter square meter or 2,945.3 pounds of air -dry forage per acre. According to the sample adequacy equation found in Rule 4.15.11(2)(a), sample adequacy at the 90 percent confidence level, for "desirable forage production," was achieved with 17.5 transects and 30 transects were sampled. First year's forage production from the Irrigated Pasture Reclaimed Area (IP - 4) are found in Appendix 1 - Table 8, Irrigated Pasture Reclaimed Area IP - 4 - Production found on page 24 of the 2010 report. The production of desirable perennial grasses and perennial forbs are found in Appendix 1 - Table 8, Irrigated Pasture Reclaimed Area IP - 4 - Production. The production of desirable plants averaged 73.33 grams per quarter square meter or 2,613.5 pounds of air -dry forage per acre. According to the sample adequacy equation found in Rule 4.15.11(2)(a), sample adequacy at the 90 percent confidence level, for "desirable forage production," was achieved with 10.6 transects and 30 transects were sampled. Forage production data from the Irrigated Pasture Reference Area are found in Appendix 1 - Table 4, Irrigated Pasture Reference Area - Production found on page 20 of the 2010 report. The production of desirable perennial grasses and perennial forbs averaged 73.50 grams per quarter square meter or 2,619.54 pounds of air -dry forage per acre. According to the sample adequacy equation found in Rule 4.15.11(2)(a), sample adequacy at the 90 percent confidence level, for "desirable forage production," was determined to equal 48.3 transects and 30 transects were sampled. 2011 Phase III Revegetation Monitoring SL -14 03DEC12.wpd 46