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plot. Slender wheatgrass, Oregon checkermallow, cinqueibil, and western 

 yarrow, species of moderate to high value as sheep forage, were more 

 abundant on the ungrazed plot than on the grazed plot. However, the 

 character and value of the vegetation on both plots was very similar, 

 both areas having improved from a poor to a fair range condition. 



Table 2. — Average density 1 of vegetation by class and species in 1940 on 

 meadow A, gopher-free from 1931 to 1940, and on gopher-infested 



meadow B 





Gopher-free meadow A | Gopher-infested meadow B 



Class and species 



Ungrazed 

 plot 



Grazed Ungrazed 

 plot plot 



Grazed 

 plot 



Perennial grasses: 



Bluegrass, Kentucky 



Bluegrass. Sandberg 



Brome. mountain 



Fescue, red 



Xeedlegrass. Lemmon .... 



Oniongrass l little 



Wheatgrass, slender 



Other 



Percent 



1.69 



.03 



.97 



1.44 



.56 



.28 



1.47 



Percent 



2.00 



.44 



.16 



1.65 



.41 



2.25 



.22 



.41 



Percent 

 0.06 



(2) 



.09 

 .16 

 .34 



Percent 

 0.62 



.19 

 .44 

 .12 

 .31 



.38 

 .72 





Total 



Annual grasses 



Rushes 



6.44 

 .22 



7.54 

 1.18 



.65 

 .19 



2.78 

 1 .00 



Annual weeds: 



Collinsia. littleflower 



Tanveed. cluster 



Other 



.09 

 .40 



.22 



.28 



(2) 



6.63 

 2.00 



.12 



2.31 



.03 





Total 



.49 



.50 



8.63 



2.46 



Perennial forbs or weeds: 



Agoseris 



Aster 



Biscuitroot. bicolor 



Bistort, American 



Bluebell, small 



Buttercup. 



great straightbeak 



Checkermallow, Oregon . . 

 Cinquefoil 



2.63 



.78 



2.95 



.03 

 2.97 

 3.38 



1.62 



.03 

 .03 

 .16 

 .62 

 .16 

 2.00 

 .49 



2.41 

 .31 



2.34 

 .50 



(2) 



.22 



(2) 



2.25 



3.01 



1.06 



.19 



.44 



.31 



2.44 



.97 



.65 



.66 



1.00 



2.22 



.25 



.16 

 .19 



(2) 



.06 

 .03 

 .09 



(2) 



.84 

 .12 



1.22 



.72 

 5.70 



.06 

 03 



Clover, longstalk 



Dandelion, common 



Fleabane 



1.03 

 1.16 



Groundsel, Columbia 



Penstemon. roval 



Vetch 



Violet 



W\ethia. whitehead 



Yarrow, western 



.84 



(2) 



.72 



Other 



.25 







Total 



17.85 



17.10 



5.62 



11.73 



All vegetation 



25.00 



26.32 



15.09 



17.97 







1 Square feet per hundred of ground covered. 



2 Less than 0.005. 



