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Hungry Valley
RRA

Forest District: Central Cariboo

Range Unit: Hungry Valley
Nearest Community: Clinton

Year of Construction: 1996

Size and Fence Type: (750 m) 5-strand barbed wire livestock-proof fence.

Biogeoclimatic Unit: MS xv
Site Series:
Elevation: 1,690 m 
Slope: 5% Aspect: S
Soils: Elliot-Chaunigan Lake (Carbonated Rego Humic Gleysol)
Leading Plant Species:  1997: The grassland is dominated by Danthonia intermedia, Festuca saximontana, Cerastium arvense, and Geum triflorum. The Carex meadow is dominated by Carex utriculata, Carex aquatilis, Agropyron trachycaulum, Calamagrostis stricta, and mosses. The willow community is dominated by Salix maccaliana, Salix planifolia, Betula glandulosa, Carex aquatilus, and mosses. The shrub carr is dominated by Betula glandulosa, Danthonia intermedia, and mosses.
Original Purpose: to detrermine PNC; to determine seral stage and impacts of livestock management on plant communities and seral stage.
Years Monitored: 1997

Comments: the exclosure includes a dry grassland, a shrub carr, a willow community, and a Carex meadow.

Reports:

For Further Information Contact: Fred Knezevich, Ministry of Forests, Southern Interior Forest Region

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