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• The community is characterized by a very limited overstory of a few isolated cottonwoods <br />(Populus angustifoiia), and boxelder trees (Aver negundo). Understory vegetation includes <br />Wood's rose (Rosa woodsii), willows (Salix spp.), rushes (Juncos spp.), sedges (Carex <br />spp.), and cattails (Typha spp.). <br />The riparian community is found along the drainage bottoms where soil moisture is abundant <br />throughout the growing season. Soil texture ranges from fine clay to coarse, sandy loam soils. <br />Elements of the sagebrush and mountain shrub communities are soon encountered adjacent to <br />the riparian community where plant available moisture begins to decrease. For further details <br />on Soil/Moisture relationships in determining the riparian vegetation community refer to <br />Figure ], Environmental Gradient/Plant Tolerance Graph. <br />Grassland Community <br />Within the permit area, the grassland community covers a very limited area. Small, isolated <br />patches of almost exclusively western wheatgrass growing on heavy clay soils are scattered <br />in the middle elevations of the southern part of the permit area. The community is of such <br />limited extend (+/- 30 acres) that only mention of occurrence is contained here. <br />Cropland <br />Within the north end of the permit area a few areas of cropland are encountered at the <br />southern edge of Axial Basin. The previous landowners removed the sagebrush and <br />• cultivated the land for winter wheat production. <br />The soils are primarily a clay loam texture on a flat to rolling topography. The area <br />surrounding the croplands incorporates elements of the sagebrush community encountered <br />throughout the rest of the perm iY area. <br />i <br />2.04.10-16 <br />