Graminoid cover averaged 82 percent for three transects sampled in the 

 type. Dominants were rough fescue (34 percent cover), Idaho fescue 

 (17), sedge species (7), prairie junegrass (5), threadleaf sedge (5), 

 Kentucky bluegrass (4), Liddon sedge ( Car ex petasata, 3), bluebunch 

 wheatgrass (3) and blunt sedge ( Car ex obtusata, 2). Forb cover 

 averaged 70 percent, including common yarrow (13), silky lupine (12), 

 ballheed sandwort (6), prairiesmoke (6), diverse-leaved cinquefoil (4), 

 field chickweed (4), common dandelion (4) and Rocky Mountain douglasia 

 (Dou^lasip montane, 3). Other forbs averaging more than one percent 

 cover included pale agoseris, weedy milkvetch, kittentail (fres seye 

 wvomingensis ) , giant frasera ( F r a se r a speciose ) , nineleaf lomatium 

 ( Lorrictium triternetur ,) and oblongleaf bluebell ( Mertensia 



oblongifolia ). 



Reported production values for the Fes sea/Fes ida habitat type range 



2 

 from 120.2 to 267.3 grams/meter , with most values everaginq 135 to 165 



2 

 arams/meter (Table 3). 



The Fes sea/Fes ida habitat type occurred on the Ac gravelly silty loam 

 soil, 15-50 percent slope. 



Tufted Hairgrass/Sedge (Pes ces/Carex) Habitat Type . This is the most 

 mesic grassland habitat type recognized for Montana (Mueggler and 

 Stewart, 1980). It was found at only one location in the permit area, 

 a gently sloping head of drainage, and appeared to be flooded for the 



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