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4-99 <br />• which develop .over mountains. Winter snows are fairly <br />frequent but mostly light, and quickly melt off. Even the <br />infrequent sno~as of from 4 to 8 inches, which are heavy for <br />this locality, seldom remain on the ground for prolonged per- <br />iods. <br />The study site is located in the lower montane climax region <br />of Marr (1867); the saltbrush-greasewood and juniper-pinyon <br />woodland potential natural vegetation as mapped by Kuchler <br />(1966); the northern desert shrub and conifer woodland phase <br />of the desert and conifer biomes, respectively, as described <br />by Hylander (1966); and the cold desert communities (pinyon- <br />. juniper and shadscale) as described by Shelford (1963). <br />4.8.10 Description of Vegetation <br />The permit area is characterized by six vegetation types. They <br />include a Greasewood Shrubland along the East Salt Creek drainage, <br />a Big Sagebrush Shrubland along drainages and side draws to East <br />Salt Creek, a shadscale Shrubland on south-facing talus slopes <br />of canyons, and a Juniper Woodland on dry, shallow, rocky soils <br />of mountainous terrain. A mountain deciduous shrubland occurs <br />as a microcommunity with the Juniper Woodland. Mountain Shrub- <br />land dominates moist habitats at the higher elevations on north- <br />facing slopes. These vegetation types represent climatic climaxes. <br />A small portion of an agricultural area is present near East Salt <br />• <br />