Field notebook : Wyoming and Colorado
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Line Transect 250 yds East of University of wyo. Summer Camp Medicine Bow Nat'l Forest - Albany County, Wyoming 6 Hundred yds long N.<- -> S. E.<- -> W. 10,000 ft thin rocky scree mummured 2. Rye grass (Leymus sp.) 3. Bluegrass (Poa sp.) 4. Wild onion (Allium triquetrum) 5. Red willow (Salix purpurea) 6. Huckleberry (Vaccinium scoparium) 7. Birch (Betula occidentalis) 8. Pine (Pinus contorta) 9. Spruce (Picea engelmannii) 10. Aspen (Populus tremuloides) 3,800 ft Shrubby Zone Soil forming and/or Riparian zone and alder 4. Clay - soil forming Scrub - shrub growing 9,800 ft Camp area North Slope 5. Spruce (Picea engelmannii) Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Shrubby currant (Ribes sp.) Willow (Salix spp.) Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) Rush (Juncus sp.) 6. 9,750 ft Transition area from spruce-fir to aspen fir 7. Spruce Fir Huckleberry 8. 19,000 ft Wind-swept spruce