Several vegetaticn inventories of other isolated mountain ranges in 

 Montana ard Canada may be pertinent to the Sv;eet Grass Hills. The 

 flora of the Cypress Kills has been described by Breitung (1954), 

 deVries and Bird (1968) and Newscme and Dix (1968). Forest habitat 

 types of the Bear's Pav; Mountains have been classified by Roberts and 

 Sibibemsen (1979a) and Roberts (1980). Forest habitat types of the 

 Little Rocky Kjountaip.s have also been classified by Rcterts and 

 Sitbemsen (1979b) and Rtierts (1980). Culv;ell et al. (1989) have 

 described vegetation types of a porticxi of the Little Rocky Mountains. 



Forest habitat types of tl^ Blackfeet Indian Reservation have been 

 classified by Cooper (1981), and Lynch (1955) has inventoried aspen 

 groveland in Glacier County, Montana. 



Table 2 lists habitat types and ccnrnunity types reported in pertinent 

 vegetaticn inventories. 



3.3.2 Habitat/CoTTTiunity Types of the Sv.eet Grass Hills 

 A preliminary assessrrent of habitat/oGrrmunity types of the PACEC is 

 possible utilizing general descriptions provided by Thcmpscn and Kuijt 

 (1976a), qualitative notes frcm the rare plant inventory, and 

 extrapolaticn of reports from adjacent, isolated mountain ranges. This 

 assessment of types —List be cansidered speculative given the lack of 

 quantitative ecological data. Photographs of representative vegetaticn 

 types are presented in Arpendix B. 



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