PERMFILE121227

• Permit No: C1981011
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: Rule 2.04.3 Land Use Information
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

X Herbaceous Rangeland
The herbaceous Rangeland category encompasses lands
dominated by naturally occurring grasses and forbs as well
as those areas of actual rangeland which have been modified
for rangeland purposes and not managed using practices
typical of pastureland. It includes tall grass, short grass,
bunch grass and desert grass regions. Respectively, these
grass regions represent a sequence of declining amounts of
available moisture. Bunch grass and desert grass are found
in many locations, representing transitional situations to
desert shrub. Typical occurrences of grasslands include
such species as the various bluestems (Andropogon), grams
grasses (Bouteloua), wheatgrasses (Agropyron), needlegrasses
(Stipa), and fescues (Festuca).
D Shrub and Brush Rangeland
The typical shrub occurrences are found in those and
and semiarid regions characterized by such xerophytic
vegetative types with woody stems as big sagebrush (Artemisia
tridentata), shadscale (Artiples confertifolia), greasewood
(Sarcobatus vermiculatus), or creosotebush (Larrea divaricata),
and also by the typical desert succulent xerophytes, such
as the various forms of Cactus. When bottom lands and moist
flats are characterized by dense stands of typical wetland
species such as mesquite (Prosopis), they are considered
Wetland. Where highly alkaline soils are present, halophytes
• such as desert saltbrush (Atriplex) may occur. The type,
density, and association of these various species are useful
as indicators of the local hydrologic and pedologic environ-
ments. Also included in this category are chaparral, a
dense misture of broadleaf evergreen schlerophyll shrubs,
and the occurrences of mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledi-
folius) and scrub oaks (Quercus).
E Mixed Rangeland
When more than one-third intermixture of either
herbaceous or shrub and brush rangeland species occurs in a
specific area, it is classified as Mixed Rangeland. Where
the intermixed land use or uses total less than one-third
of the specific area, the category appropriate of the dominant
type of Rangeland is applied. Mixtures of herbaceous and
shrub or brush tundra plants are not considered Rangeland.
F Deciduous Forest Land
Deciduous Forest Land includes all forested areas having
a predominance of trees that lose their leaves at the end of
the Bost-free season or at the beginning of a dry season.
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