Comments: Saturated soils of the CARSIM type make it less accessible to cattle, protecting it 

 from direct grazing impacts. However, at the edges of the wetland, a narrow zone dominated by 

 Deschampsia cespitosa and Juncus balticus, there are high-relief hummocks induced by cattle. 



This is a high-quality site of a plant association that is rather uncommon in the state (S3) and 

 beyond (G3), certainly so in the Ruby Range. It is subject to the impacts of cattle grazing and 

 owes its existence to unique hydrological happenstance; two conditions that should make this 

 type a target for protection. Presently the CARSIM association has no degree of protection 

 anywhere in the Inland Northwest. 



E) 



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