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Wigwam Flats
2-way total RRA

Forest District: Rocky Mountain

Range Unit: Wigwam
Nearest Community: Elko

Year of Construction: 1966

Size and Fence Type: 15x31m livestock proof.
Biogeoclimatic Unit: IDFdm2
Site Series: 03		 Elevation: 990m
Slope: 0%
Soils: Keeney (Orthic Eutric Brunisol)
Leading Plant Species: (1993): Festuca scabrella, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Prunus virginiana
Original Purpose: Wild sheep study
Years Monitored: 1966, 1984, 1993, 1998

Comments: No livestock in this Range Unit. A smaller exclosure also built in 1966, is situated a short distance west of this exclosure, in a forested site. High lichen abundance and diversity recorded in small exclosure in 1993. Douglas-fir encroachment is evident.

Reports: Demarchi, D., 1967. An Ecological Study of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Ranges in the East Kootenay Region of British Columbia.

Davidson, 1991. East Kootenay Bighorn Sheep Enhancement Project Completion Report.

McCrae, C., 1993. East Kootenay Exclosure Survey.

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

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