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The second main vegetation unit is the intermediate Sagebrush <br />communities, where sagebrush is intermixed with grasses at the edges <br />of Grassland areas and in small clearings at high elevations. These <br />sagebrush communities "contain big sagebrush with an understory of <br />wheatgrasses and Indian ricegrass (Arthur and Jennings 1977: 5)." <br />• <br />EAST END OF SEC.32-T6N-R90W WHERE THE POWERLINE FEEDS <br />THE MAIN PLANT. TAKEN AT THE EDGE OF THE GRASSLANDS AREA <br />SHOWN IN PHOTOS NUMBERS 6 AND 8 ABOVE. TYPICAL OF THE <br />INTERMEDIATE SAGEBRUSH COMMUNITY. (FI1779597, Ell9) <br />The third unit is the Mountain Shrub community. This community <br />"consists of a dense stand of shrub growth including big sagebrush, <br />serviceberry, bitterbrush, rabbitbrush, and Gamble's Oak. At times <br />this growth becomes very dense, but in some cases is fairly open with <br />grasses and forbes as an understory (Arthur and Jennings 1977: 5)." <br />This Mountain Shrub community occurs throughout much of the <br />survey area, especially on the rolling hills immediately north of the <br />Williams Fork Mountains. The shrub growth within the area varies from <br />sparse with grasses to very dense. <br /> <br />14 <br />