The Island Research Natural Area: guidebook supplement 35.

Reid Schuller; Ron Halvorson

doi:10.2737/PNW-GTR-762

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The Island Research Natural Area: guidebook supplement 35.

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Reid Schuller, Ron Halvorson

Year:

2008

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-762

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-762. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p.

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Abstract

This guidebook describes The Island Research Natural Area, an 84-ha (208-ac) tract established to represent examples of the western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass (Juniperus occidentalis/Artemisia tridentata/Pseudoroegneria spicata), and the western juniper/big sagebrush-antelope bitterbrush/bluebunch wheatgrass (Juniperus occidentalis/Artemisia tridentata-Purshia tridentata/Pseudoroegneria spicata) plant associations.

Keywords

Research natural area, Juniperus occidentalis, western juniper, Artemisia tridentata, big sagebrush, Purshia tridentata, antelope bitterbrush, Pseudoroegneria spicata, bluebunch wheatgrass, Festuca idahoensis, Idaho fescue, Texosporium sancti-jacobi, woven-spored lichen, relict vegetation, juniper invasion, sagebrush steppe

Citation

Schuller, Reid; Halvorson, Ron. 2008. The Island Research Natural Area: guidebook supplement 35. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-762. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p.