^arch 12, 1996 



MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



FScientific Name: CAREX GRAVIDA 

 Common Name: PREGNANT SEDGE 



Global rank: G5 

 State rank: SI 



Forest Service status: 

 Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: PMCYPOSSGO . 002 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: HAY CREEK 



EG rank: 

 EO rank comments: 



County: ROSEBUD 



USGS quadrangle: POKER JIM BUTTE 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments; 

 005S 044E 33 SE4SW4 



Precision: S 

 Survey date: 



First observation: 1955-07-21 



Last observation: 1995-07-06 



Elevation: 3880 - 

 Slope/aspect: LEVEL 

 Size (acres) : 10 



Location: 



(CA. 8 MILES EAST OF 

 RANCH. 



ilRNEY) NEAR THE HEAD OF HAY CREEK AT FLETCHER 



Element occurrence data: 



1995: UNCOMMON WITH 8 VIGOROUS CLUMPS IN NARROW BAND OF HABITAT. 1955; 

 IN FRUIT. 



General site description: 



MOIST SOIL IN BOTTOM OF STEEP-SIDED OLD GROWTH PINE DRAW. ASSOICATED 

 SPECIES: CAREX SPRENGELII, POA PRATENSIS, PRUNUS VIRGINIANA, AND LOW 

 AMOUNTS OF MEDICAGO LUPULINA FROM LIMITED CATTLE TRAILING. 



Land owner/manager: 



PRIVATELY OWNED LAND (INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE) 

 CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST, ASHLAND RANGER DISTRICT 



Comments: 



SITE IS MOST INTACT OF MESIC HABITAT IN SW4 , 

 YEARS . 



BURNED WITHIN LAST 20 



Information source: 



HEIDEL, B. L. AND H. MARRIOTT. 1996. SENSITIVE 

 PLANT SPECIES SURVEY OF THE ASHLAND DISTRICT, 

 CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST, POWDER RIVER AND ROSEBUD 

 COUNTIES, MT. UNPUBLISHED REPORT TO THE U.S. 

 FOREST SERVICE. MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM. 

 PP. 



Specimens: BENNETT, H. R. (S.N.). 1955. WTU. 

 HEIDEL, B. L. (1337). 1995. MONTU. 



