| Forest District: Central
Cariboo |
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| Range Unit: Summer
Range Creek |
| Nearest Community: Williams Lake |
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Year of Construction: 1994/1996
Size and Fence Type: 1,308 m 5-strand barbed wire livestock-proof
fence
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Biogeoclimatic Unit: IDF dk4
Site Series: |
Elevation: 1,100 m
Slope: 0% |
| Soils: Chimney-Williams
Lake (Orthic Dark Brown)/Williams Lake (Orthic Gray Luvisol) |
| Leading Plant Species: The
exclosure includes 14 communities - a dry grassland ridge, a grassland/riparian
transition zone, a riparian grassland community, a riparian willow
communities, two upland willow communities, an Arctostaphylos
uva-ursi community, two Suaeda depressa/Distichlis stricta
alkaline flats, a Carex rostrata wetland, and a Carex
aquatilus wetland. |
| Original Purpose: to determine
Potential Natural Community; to determine seral stage and impacts
of livestock management on plant communities and seral stage. |
| Years Monitored: 1995, 1997 |
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Comments: the original exclosure was increased in
size with the addition of a Carex fen and Spruce forest on the
south end in the winter of 1996. This is the largest and most
complex exclosure in the Cariboo Forest Region.
Reports:
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| For Further
Information Contact: Fred
Knezevich, Ministry of Forests, Southern Interior Forest Region
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