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ERO Resources <br />topo-edaphic ordination that eraompasses all of the vegetation typec. The <br />• essential character of this gradient is the charge in vegetation structure <br />and composition with soil texture, soil depth and elevation. The extremes <br />of the gradient are the juniper woodland at higher elevations and the big <br />sagebrush-greasewood comwunities in the bottomlanda. The intergrades <br />between these extremes are listed below and graphically described on Map <br />128 (Pocket): <br />VEGETATION COMMl1NITY <br />Juniper Woodlands <br />Juniper-Sagebrush <br />Sagebrush-Colorado Nildrye <br />Sagebrush-Nestern Wheatgrass <br />Western Wheatgrass <br />• <br />Colorado Nildrye <br />SOIL CHARACTERISTICS <br />Shallow, Rocky, Coarse-loamy <br />to Sandy <br />Shallow to Moderately Deep, <br />Coarse-Loamy (marry rocky! <br />Moderately Deep to Deep, Loamy <br />Deep, Clayey, Loamy to Sandy <br />Moderately Deep to Deep, <br />Clayey to Loamy <br />Shallow, Clayey to Loamy <br />Deep, Loamy to Sandy <br />Deep, loamy to 5arxiy <br />Deep, Sandy and Loamy <br />Cheatgrass <br />Cheatgrass-Annual Forb <br />Big Sagebrush-Greasewood <br />• <br />Nithin the gradient there are lateral ordinations or complexes of the <br />major elements with smaller, included subtypes. A number of the <br />inclusions have been produced by niche alterations resulting from sheep <br />grazing and subsequent erosion. The overall gradient also reflects <br />changes produced by these pressures. Although the juniper woodland, <br />juniper-sagebrush community continuum is cortQlex, it is linear and <br />adequately described by the general topo-edaphic gradient. <br />II.F-21 <br />