Story, Wyoming 



Location 



Sheridan Co., WY; Sec. 15, R. 83 W.. T. 53 N.; GPS-UTM 4936150 N. 353906 E. 

 About 3 miles east of Story. 



From Buffalo, Wyoming, travel north on U.S. Interstate 90 to Exit 44. Travel northwest on U.S. 

 Highway 87 /Wyoming Highway 344 about 5 miles to Massacre Hill Monument, site of Fetterman 

 Massacre. Photopoint is on the large hill about 0.5 mile southwest of the monument. 



Description 



September8, 1999 



Uplands 



Grasses. Agropyron smithii, 

 Stipa comata, Koeleria 

 pyramidata. Poa pratensis, 

 Poa secunda, Agropyron 

 spicatum 



Shrubs. Artemisia frigida. 

 Gutierrezia sarothrae 



Roadside 



Grasses. Bromus inermis, 

 Agropyron intermedium, 

 Sporobolus cryptandrus, 

 Agropyron smithii. Bromns 

 japonicus 



Shrubs. Artemisia cana 



Bottomlands and Ridges 



Shrubs and Trees. Artemisia 

 cana, Symphoricarpos 

 occidentalis, Shepherdia 

 argentea, Prunus virginiana, 

 Salix spp., Fraxinus 

 pennsylvanica. Populus 

 tremuloides 



Synopsis 



Other than the landscaping from 

 highway development (for ex- 

 ample, note realignment of 

 irrigation canal), the vegetation 

 complex has changed very little 

 over the past 80 years. The 

 density and size of woody spe- 

 cies appear to have increased 

 slightly but nothing dramatic. 



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