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<br /> <br />• ~IIII~~I~~I~~~~~II~ <br />sss <br /> <br />The three mine Bites inventoried have about the same <br />vegetative makeup. The Lariat Mine has more of a foot- <br />hills vegetation with shrubs and forbs dominating the <br />landscape. The North and South Chieftan Mines have more <br />of a plains vegetation as evidenced bq the lack of a <br />shrub community except on the break sites. Production <br />with all vegetation is higher on the Lariat Mine site. <br />The plant community is also more deversified at the <br />Lariat Mine. All the plants on the three mine sites <br />could not be identified because many annual and some <br />warm season perennial grass will not show up until later. <br />VEGETATION INVENTORY <br />Grasses Forbs and Shrubs on the Horth and South Chieftaa Mines. <br />Grasses <br />Sixweeks Fescue <br />Western Wheat <br />Blue grams <br />Buffalo Grass <br />Sun Sedge <br />Cheatgrass <br />Ring Mutely <br />Needle & Thread <br />Indian Ricegrass <br />(North Chieftan) <br />Little Bluestem <br />(North ChiePtan) <br />Junegrass <br />Japanese Brome <br />Forbs <br />%ochia <br />Russian Thistle <br />Dandelion <br />Cudweed Sage <br />Curly Cup Gumweed <br />Annual Sunflower <br />Dotted Gay Feather <br />Penstomen Spp, <br />Shrubs <br />Snakeweed <br />Rabbit brush <br />Yucca <br />Mtn. Mahogany <br />(No Chieftaa.) <br />Prickly Pear. <br />Fringed Sage <br />Arkansas Rose <br />• <br />