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Chidde
1957
Transsect #4
22 June Pitmegea River, Cape Sabine, Alaska
Tedrow and I set this line out in the
well developed tussock area on the
slope to the outcrop to SW of Loon Marsh.
13 July Surveyed last community etc. This line starts at the edge
of a broad finger of Sedge Wet Meadow which runs
up toward Owl Ridge in a band 20-30' across and
is the largest of the sedge fingers in the area. By
0.2 The line is in very well developed tussock
up to 15" in height and closely spaced. The tussocks
are by far the dominant vegetation but there
is a sprinkling of erect and prostrate willows,
S. angustifolia and Arctostaphylos, as well as
Vaccinium vitis-idaea and Ledum, at 5.6 north
Sedge finger and then a relatively barren area
of muddy wet meadow. There is an angle of __° at
5.0. The remainder of the line is a mixture
of Tussock and Sedge Wet Meadow as the
line runs along the intersection of the two
types, one higher and one lower in the drainage.
The tussocks are by far the best developed in the
area.