Black Canyon Research Natural Area: Guidebook Supplement 52

Reid Schuller; Sarah Canham

doi:10.2737/PNW-GTR-969

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Black Canyon Research Natural Area: Guidebook Supplement 52

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Authors:

Reid Schuller, Sarah Canham

Year:

2019

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-969

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-969. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 25 p.

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Abstract

This guidebook describes major biological and physical attributes of the 2686-ha (6,637-ac) Black Canyon Research Natural Area (RNA), Wheeler County, Oregon. The RNA contains high-quality examples of native plant associations’ representative of the foothills of the Blue Mountains ecoregion.

Keywords

Research natural area, area of critical environmental concern, big sagebrush, western juniper, Idaho fescue, antelope bitterbrush, arrowleaf thelypody, threatened plant species population, Thurber’s needlegrass, bluebunch wheatgrass

Citation

Schuller, Reid; Canham, Sarah. 2019. Black Canyon Research Natural Area: Guidebook Supplement 52. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-969. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 25 p.