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4-114 <br />4.8.10.5 Mountain Shrubland <br />A Mountain Shrubland vegetation type occurs in the permit area <br />but is not affected by mining activities. This community was <br />quantitatively sampled and described by studies conducted in <br />1977. The description in this report is from that study. <br />At the elevations within the permit area this vegetation type <br />is confined to north-facing slopes. The density of the shrubs <br />vary with the degree of the slope. Shrub densities increase on <br />the very steep slopes and tend to occur as patches and small <br />clumps on the gentler slopes. <br />The dominance of individual shrubs is most variable. Nearly <br />pure stands of mountain mahogany occur in some sites while in <br />other habitats Utah serviceberry dominates. Gambel oak increases <br />in importance at higher elevations. The total shrub cover in <br />sampled stands is 41 percent. Utah serviceberry is 19 percent, <br />mountain mahogany 21 percent, and snowberry and pinyon pine are <br />less than 1 percent. <br />Total herbaceous cover is 22 percent. Graminoids account for <br />20 percent of the cover and forbs 2 percent. Salina wildrye alone <br />forms 18 percent of the total herbaceous cover and bluegrass Poa <br />sp. 2 percent. Conspicuous forbs include mountain peppergrass, <br />longleaf phlox PhQox 2ong~.6ok~,a, stickseed Lappu2a rtedowhh~.~, ana <br />fleabane Eh~,gehon pum~.~ue. <br />i <br />~I I <br />da <br />~~ <br />~~ <br />4 <br />i ~~~ <br />p,~-U lo..p? <br />