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strawberry. Common juniper, shrubby cinquefoil, and mountain snowberry(Symphoricarpos oreophilus) <br /> represent a scattered shrub story. <br /> Planted Grasses <br /> This community comprises less than an acre (1.8 percent) of the site.These areas appear to be locations <br /> where the native plant community has been completely removed during human activities and replaced <br /> by planted pasture and reclamation grasses such as smooth brome, mountain brome,Timothy, and <br /> Kentucky bluegrass. <br /> Rocky Outcrop <br /> A rock outcrop includes approximately a tenth of an acre (0.6 percent) in the north portion of the site. <br /> This feature supports a few trees and shrubs including subalpine fir, Englemann spruce, lodgepole, <br /> limber pine, and broom huckleberry(Voccinium scoparium). Forbs such as pussytoes and golden banner <br /> (Thermopsis montana)were also present <br /> Spruce/Fir Woodland <br /> Limited spruce/fir woodland occurs in the north part of the site, comprising approximately a third of an <br /> acre (1.5 percent of land).This community is characterized by a dense Englemann spruce and subalpine <br /> fir canopy with a sparse understory of shrubs including broom huckleberry,twinberry honeysuckle <br /> (Lonicera involucrata),fireweed (Chamerion danielsii), whisk broom parsley(Harbouria trachypleura), <br /> and heartleaf arnica (Arnica cordifolia). <br /> Upland Meadow <br /> The upland meadow comprises a small portion of the northern part of the site and accounts for less <br /> than an acre (2.9 percent of the site).The area is characterized by Kentucky bluegrass and prairie <br /> sagewort forb (Artemisia ludoviciana) as co-dominants in a species-rich herbaceous community. Other <br /> common grasses include smooth brome (Bromopsis inermis),Timothy, Canada bluegrass(Poa <br /> compressa), and sun sedge (Carex pensylvanica subsp. heliophila). The most common forbs include <br /> sedum (Amerosedum lanceolatum), pussytoes (Antennaria parviflora),fringed sage (Artemisia frigida), <br /> wild geranium (Geranium richardsonii and G. viscossisimum), yarrow (Achillea lanulosa),fringed thistle <br /> (Cirsium centaureae) and wild strawberry.The only weed noted includes scattered small populations of <br /> Canada thistle (Breea arvensis) at the community edges where it grades into more mesic areas. (This <br /> amendment includes a commitment to control noxious weeds which may occur within the proposed <br /> permit area.) <br /> Scattered, low-growing shrubs include Wood's rose, shrubby cinquefoil, broom huckleberry and <br /> common juniper (Juniperus communis). Occasional clumps of Scouler's willow (Salix scouleriana) also <br /> occur in the upland meadow. <br /> 4 <br />