| Forest District: Rocky Mountain |
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| Range Unit: Ta-Ta
Skookumchuk |
| Nearest Community: Skookumchuk |
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Year of Construction: 1991
Size and Fence Type: 65 ha Cattle only (8ft wildlife fence);
65 ha Wildlife only (livestock fence);
65 ha Grazed Control; 0.7 ha Total Exclosure (8ft wildlife fence).
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Biogeoclimatic Unit: PPdh2
Site Series: 02b |
Elevation: 810m
Slope: 0% |
| Soils: Elko, Fishertown,
Saha (Orthic Eutric Brunisols) |
| Leading Plant Species: Total Excl.,
1994: Poa pratensis, Poa compressa, Purshia tridentata, Festuca
scabrella Wildlife Only Excl., 1994: Festuca idahoensis,
Purshia tridentata, Koeleria cristata, Agropyron cristatum Cattle
Only Excl., 1994: Purshia tridentata, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi,
Pinus ponderosa, Festuca idahoensis Grazed Control, 1994: Purshia
tridentata, Poa compressa, Poa pratensis, Agropyron spicatum |
| Original Purpose: Established by
the East Kootenay Trench Agriculture/Wildlife Project as part of
the Vegetation Monitoring Program, to determine relative impacts
of livestock and wildlife on Crown range. |
| Years Monitored: 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994, 1998 |
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Comments: Cattle are rotated through "Cattle Only"
exclosure in accordance with the rotation set for this Range Unit.
Detailed data on this exclosure (plant cover, forage and shrub
usage and ungulate diets) available in Ross 1997.
Reports: Ross, 1997. Vegetation Monitoring Program Final
Report for the East Kootenay Trench Agriculture/Wildlife Committee.
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| For Further
Information Contact:
Don Gayton, Ministry of Forests, Southern Interior Forest Region
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