Scientific Name: JUNIPERUS SCOPULORUM/CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS PA 



Common Name: ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUNIPER/ CURL-LEAF MOUNTAIN MAHOGANY ASSOCIATION 



Global rank: G3 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: S3 Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: C2A2ABABN0 . 005 



Survey site name: LIME GULCH SPRING NORTH 



EO rank: AB 

 EO rank comments: BROWSING BY DEER AND ELK APPEARS TO BE 



EXCESSIVE. 



County: SILVER BOW 



USGS quadrangle: TUCKER CREEK 



Township: OOIS Range: 009W Section: 11 Precision: S 



Township-range comments: NW4NW4 



Survey date: 1991-06-18 Elevation: 6240 

 First observation: 1991 Slope/aspect: 15% / SOUTHWEST 



Last observation: 1991-06-18 Size (acres) : 5 



Location: 



FROM DIVIDE (TOWN), PROCEED NORTH ON FRONTAGE ROAD CA. 1.6 MILES TO 

 ROAD LEADING EAST. TAKE THIS ROAD CA. 1.5 MILES EAST TO A RANCH HOUSE, 

 AND ASK PERMISSION TO CROSS PRIVATE LAND TO SITE. PLOT IS ON WEST 

 SLOPE OF RIDGE, 0.9 MILE SOUTHEAST OF RANCH HOUSE. 



Element occurrence data: 



WITHIN PLOT, 3 5 SPECIES OBSERVED. DOMINANTS INCLUDE: JUNIPERUS 

 SCOPULORUM (1% CANOPY COVER) , CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS (40%) , ORYZOPSIS 

 HYMENOIDES (3%), CYMOPTERIS BIPINNATUS (3%), AND HAPLOPAPPUS ACAULIS 

 (3%) . COMPLETE LIST ON FILE AT MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM. 



General site description: 



RESIDUAL MOUNTAIN SLOPE; PLOT POSITION IS UPPER SLOPE. LIMESTONE 

 PARENT MATERIAL AND LITHIC USTIC TORRIORTHENT SOIL SUBGROUP. GROUND 

 COVER: BARE SOIL (30%), TOTAL COARSE FRAGMENTS (21%). 



Land owner/manager: 



BLM: BUTTE DISTRICT, HEADWATERS RESOURCE AREA 



HUMBUG SPIRES PRIMITIVE AREA 



PRIVATELY OWNED LAND (INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE) 



Comments : 



MTNHP PLOT #91RD024. SURVEY CONDUCTED BY R. L. DEVELICE AND D. HEINZE. 

 ARABIS FECUNDA PRESENT ON SITE. 



Information source: 



DEVELICE, ROBERT. [COMMUNITY ECOLOGIST] . MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE 

 PROGRAM, 1515 EAST SIXTH AVE., HELENA, MT 59620. 



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