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• <br />• <br />• <br />and sun sedge (Carex pensylvanica subsp. heliophila). The most common forbs <br />include sedum (Amerosedum lanceolatum), pussytoes (Antennaria parviflora), <br />fringed sage (Artemisia frigid), wild geranium (Geranium richardsonii and G. <br />viscossisimum), yarrow (Achillea lanulosa), fringed thistle (Cirsium centaureae) and <br />wild strawberry. The only weed noted includes scattered small populations of <br />Canada thistle (Breea arvensis) at the community edges where it grades into more <br />mesic areas. (This amendment includes a commitment to control noxious weeds <br />which may occur within the proposed permit area.) <br />Scattered, low- growing shrubs include Wood's rose, shrubby cinquefoil, broom <br />huckleberry and common juniper (Juniperus communis). Occasional clumps of <br />Scouler's willow (Salix scouleriana) also occur in the upland meadow. <br />Willow /Spruce/Fir Woodland <br />The willow /spruce /fir woodland represents an intermediate community that grades <br />into both the spruce /fir woodland as well as the willow woodland. This community <br />represents slightly more than an acre (4.1 percent) of the site. The canopy is <br />dominated by a number of willow species including Geyer (Salix geyeriana), plane - <br />leaf (S planifolia), mountain (S. montana), and sandbar (S. exigua) intermixed with <br />Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens) and subalpine fir. This community also <br />supports a diverse shrub story with dense stands of thin -leaf alder (Alnus incana <br />subsp. Tenuifolia) and bog birch (Betula pumila) as well as wax currant (Ribes <br />cereum), prickly currant (R. lacustre), twinberry honeysuckle and Wood's rose. A <br />lush herbaceous understory includes wild strawberry, wild geranium, large- leaved <br />avens (Geum macrophyllum), yellow bedstraw (Galium verum), bluebells (Mertensia <br />ciliata), dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), clover (Trifolium spp.), and death camas <br />(Zigadenus venenosus). <br />Willow Woodland, A Wetland Plant Community <br />The willow woodland community occurs adjacent to the creek channel, in the most <br />mesic portion of the site. This woodland comprises almost a half acre (1.7 percent) of <br />the site. The area is characterized by a dense willow canopy composed of the same <br />species found in the willow /spruce /fir woodland. The same dense shrub and lush <br />herbaceous components that are present in the willow /spruce /fir woodland also occur <br />in this community. <br />Page 11 <br />