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Forest District: Rocky Mountain

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Range Unit: Frances Creek
Nearest Community: Radium Hot Springs

Year of Construction: Not known, estimated to be in the late 1950's.

Size and Fence Type:
30x40m, 6ft high wildlife fence.

Biogeoclimatic Unit:IDFun
Site Series: submesic
Elevation: 1006 m
Slope: 10% Aspect: SSW
Soils: Wycliffe Orthic Eutric Brunisol (Kelley and Holland, 1961)
Leading Plant Species: Inside: Festuca scabrella, Festuca idahoensis, Poa pratensis
Outside: Poa secunda, Stipa occidentalis, Antennaria microphylla, Symphoricarpus albus
Original Purpose: Not known
Years Monitored: 1993 (C. McCrae)

Comments: An adjacent plot, previously fenced, currently unfenced, contains remnants of a cultivated grass seeding trial established in 1978.

Reports:

For Further Information Contact:  Don Gayton, Ministry of Forests, Southern Interior Forest Region

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