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Ecological Evaluation of Brovelli Woods P.C. Muick TABLE 2 : Summary of the Six Plots Sampled in the Western Oak Forest Total Total Average Average Average # Average # Stems Trees Diameter Height Seedlings Saplings SPECIES Inches Feet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Interior 43 33 11 . 0 39 3 0 Live Oak Valley 10 9 12. 7 33 2 + Oak Box Elder 3 3 5 . 1 28 0 0 Buckeye 0 0 --- -- 0 ------------------------------------------------------------- Eastern Forest Tentatively, the conservation easement for Brovelli Woods is planned to preserve the eastern section of the forest, an area estimated at 38 acres. The four survey plots located in the eastern forest totalled one-tenth of an acre for a . 003 percent sample . Surveying took approximately two hours. Interior live oak, valley oak , box elder , cottonwood , ash, walnut and buttonwillow were observed. A narrow stringer of oak forest bordering the southeastern segment of the Mokelumne River was not included in either the estimation or the sample, nor was the row of trees bordering the drainage channel from the southern lake. The tree canopy averaged 83 percent, the shrub layer covered an average of 32 percent of the ground area and the herbaceous ground cover was estimated at 61 percent. An average of three vines of grape and poison oak and an average of seven plant species were identified on each plot. The data from the plots is summarized in Table 3 . TABLE 3 : Summary of the Four Plots Sampled in the Eastern Oak Forest Total Total Average Average Average # Average # Stems Trees Diameter Height Seedlings Saplings SPECIES Inches Feet --------------------------------------------------------- Interior 14 10 11. 8 36 0 0 Live Oak Valley 4 4 25. 1 56 40 0 j Oak Box Elder 4 2 0 . 7 9 0 0 Buckeye 0 0 --- -- 0 0 -------------------------------------------------------- _ l 9