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APPENDIX VI

Plants averaging 5 percent or more of the recorded use or used at 25 percent or more of the elk feeding sites on the valley meadow type (percent/frequency).

Plants	Winter	Spring	Summer	Fall

Sedge	34/75	18/95	6/44	1/33
Bluegrass	21/75	37/79		91/100
Rush	9/62
Reedgrass	1/25
Bentgrass			11/22
Total grass	71	60	23	93

Dandelion		11/79	1/33
Clover		7/53
Agoseris		5/26
Aster		4/68	1/56	4/66
Elk thistle				*/66
Total forbs	2	36	7	5

Willow	21/75	3/26	70/89	2/66
Shrubby cinquefoil	1/50
Total shrubs	27	4	70	2

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