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~getation Site Description • Funk and Hooker Pit I. Vegetation Site Name - Stony Loam A. Climate - Precipitation averages 1.5 to 20 inches per pear. Over half of the precipitation comes as snow. The optimum growing season is May 1 to July 1. B. Elevation sad Topography - The site occurs on steep to moderately steep slopes at the site. Elevation is about 6,450 feet. C. Soil - Mapping unit 102 is classified as a terrace escarpment. It is a complex consisting of the Perms and Hesperus series. It occupies very steep breaks between terraces and upland areas. It is a well drained soil with a very stony loam surface about 10 inches thick. The underlying material is very stony sand to 60 inches or more. There is 50 to 70 percent cobble and stone throughout the sail. D. Potentisi Plant Comm++n;ty -Stoniness oa and within the soils make for conditions quite favorable for the growth of plants. Stones act to make soils warmer and they work to make available an amount of water which could be limited in a stone-free soil. Wheatgrasses, Indian ricegrass, bluegrasses, mountain muhly and other grasses are mixed with bitterbrush, serviceberry, big sagebrush, and snowberry to combine with a number of forbs in the production of as much as 2,000#/acre in a favorable year. E. Plant Community Grasses #Bluebunch wheatgrass Western wheatgrass Sandberg bluegrass Prairie Junegrass Muttongrass Hottlebrush squirrel tail Needle - and-Thread grass Columbia needlegrass Shrubs #Big sage Serviceberry Antelope bitterbrush Snowberry Tall rabbitbrush Low rabbitbrush (Agropyron spicatum) (Agropyron smithii; (Poo seconds) (I{oleria cristatum) (Poo fendlerisna) (Sitanion hystrix) (Stipa comata) (Stipa Columbiana) (Artemisis tridentata) (Amalanchier alnifolis) (Purshis tridentata) (Symphoricarpos oreophilus) (Chrysothamus nauseosus) (Chrysothamss vicidiflorus)