| Forest District: Rocky Mountain |
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| Range Unit: Pickering
Hills |
| Nearest Community: Wardner |
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Year of Construction: 1991
Size and Fence Type: 0.7 ha (70x100m) 8ft wildlife fence;
0.7 ha grazed control.
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Biogeoclimatic Unit: IDFdm2
Site Series: 03 |
Elevation: 975m
Slope: |
| Soils: Flatbow and
Wycliffe (Orthic Eutric Brunisols) |
Leading Plant Species: Inside,
1994: Stipa occidentalis, Poa pratensis, Purshia tridentata
Outside, 1994: Poa pratensis, Purshia tridentata, Stipa occidentalis |
| 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: Detailed data on this exclosure (plant
cover, forage and shrub usage and ungulate diets) is 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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