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Range Reference Areas
of the Southern Interior Forest Region

Sagebrush
2-way RRA

Forest District: Rocky Mountain

Range Unit: Forster-Horsethief
Nearest Community: Radium Hot Springs

Year of Construction: 1997

Size and Fence Type: 1 ha (100x100m) livestock-proof fence; 1 ha grazed control.

Biogeoclimatic Unit: IDFun
Site Series: subxeric
Elevation:
Slope:
Soils: Wycliffe Orthic Eutric Brunisol (Kelley and Holland, 1961)
Leading Plant Species: (1999 Inside livestock exclosure): Artemisia tridentata, Elymus spicatus, Koeleria macrantha.
Original Purpose: (FRBC Range Reference Areas Program) to determine Potential Natural Community; to determine seral stage and impacts of management on seral stage.
Years Monitored: 1998

Comments:  Shrub community dominated by sagebrush (Artemisia sp). No transects established in grazed control.

Reports:

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

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