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Range Reference Areas
of the Southern Interior Forest Region

Sun Lakes
3-way RRA

Forest District: Rocky Mountain

Range Unit: Dutch-Findlay
Nearest Community: Canal Flats

Year of Construction: 1997

Size and Fence Type: 1 ha (100x100m) livestock-proof; 1 ha wildlife-proof (8 ft fence); 1 ha grazed control.

Biogeoclimatic Unit: IDFun
Site Series:
Elevation: 960m
Slope:
Soils: Marmalade (xeric) Orthic Eutric Brunisol
Leading Plant Species:
Original Purpose: (FRBC Range Reference Areas Program) to determine Potential Natural Community; to determine seral stage and impacts of management on seral stage; to separate livestock and wildlife impacts on plant communities.
Years Monitored: 1998

Comments:  Part of 1995 Spen Fire..

Reports:

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

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