Scientific Name: PINUS FLEXILIS/CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS PA 

 Common Name: LIMBER PINE/ CURL-LEAF MOUNTAIN MAHOGANY ASSOCIATION 



Global rank: G3? 

 State rank: S3? 



Forest Service status: 

 Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: C2A2ADABM0 . 001 



Survey site name: LIME GULCH SPRING SOUTH 



EO rank: AB 

 EO rank comments: RECOVERING FROM FIRE CA. 50 YEARS AGO. 



SOME TREES SALVAGE-LOGGED. HEAVY USE BY 

 DEER AND ELK IS APPARENT. 



County: SILVER BOW 



USGS quadrangle: TUCKER CREEK 



Township: OOIS Range: 009W Section: 11 

 Township-range comments: NW4NW4 



Precision: S 



Survey date : 



First observation: 



Last observation: 



1991-06-11 



1991 



1991-06-11 



Elevation: 6220 



Slope/aspect: 40% / SOUTHWEST 



Size (acres) : 10 



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, 21 SPECIES OBSERVED. DOMINANTS INCLUDE: PINUS FLEXILIS 

 (3% CANOPY COVER), JUNIPERUS SCOPULORUM (1%), CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS 

 (30%) , AGROPYRON SPICATUM (TRACE) , AND ORYZOPSIS HYMENOIDES (TRACE) . 

 COMPLETE LIST ON FILE AT MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM. 



General site description: 



RESIDUAL MOUNTAIN SLOPE; PLOT POSITION IS MID-SLOPE. LIMESTONE PARENT 

 MATERIAL AND LITHIC USTORTHENT SOIL SUBGROUP. GROUND COVER: BARE SOIL 

 (20%), TOTAL COARSE FRAGMENTS (70%). 



Land owner/manager: 



BLM: BUTTE DISTRICT, HEADWATERS RESOURCE AREA 

 HUMBUG SPIRES PRIMITIVE AREA 



Comments : 



MTNHP PLOT r?91RD016. SURVEY CONDUCTED BY R. 

 FECUNDA PRESENT ON SITE. 



DEVELICE. ARABIS 



Information source: 



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

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



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