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Rock outcrop consists of barren escarpments, ridge caps, and rocky <br />points of ,sandstone, shale, limestone, or siltstone. The escarpments <br />commonly are 3 to 50 feet high and 25 to 2,500 feet long. <br />Most areas of this unit are used for wildlife habitat and limited <br />livestock grazing. A few areas are used for [he development of coal and <br />natural gas. <br />The potential plant community on the lower elevation of the soil is <br />mainly 20 percent Salina wi.ldrye, 10 percent western wheatgrass, 10 percent <br />other grasses, 10 percent forbs in small amounts, 10 percent Wyoming big <br />sagebrush, 5 percent shadscale, 5 percent Saskatoon service berry, and 5 <br />percent small low rabbitbrush with a 5 to 40 percent canopy cover of Utah <br />juniper and pinyon. Other plants that characterize this site in smaller <br />amounts are Indian ricegrass, green ephedra, and fourwi.ng saltbush. <br />The potential plant community on the upper elevation of the soil is <br />mainly 10 percent Indian ricegrass, 30 percent other grasses, 15 percent <br />forbs in small amounts, 20 percent Gambel oak, and 10 percent Mountain biz <br />sagebrush, with a 20 to 50 percent canopy cover of Utah juniper and pinyon. <br />Other plants that characterize this site in smaller amounts are green <br />ephedra, shadscale, and fourwing saltbush. Some areas at the higher <br />elevation range of this soil loo}: very much like the Bushy Loam range site. <br />The pinyon and juniper trees have limited economic value. Some are <br />used as firewood, fenceposts, and Christmas trees, However, in most areas <br />steepness of slcpe limits access for harvesting wood products <br />