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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