Pacific Northwest Research Station

Title: The Island Research Natural Area: guidebook supplement 35.

Author: Schuller, Reid; Halvorson, Ron.

Date: 2008

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-762. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p.

Station ID: GTR-PNW-762

Description: This guidebook describes The Island Research Natural Area, an 84-ha (208-ac) tract established to represent examples of the western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass (Juniperus occidentalis/Artemisia tridentata/Pseudoroegneria spicata), and the western juniper/big sagebrush-antelope bitterbrush/bluebunch wheatgrass (Juniperus occidentalis/Artemisia tridentata-Purshia tridentata/Pseudoroegneria spicata) plant associations.

Keywords: Research natural area, Juniperus occidentalis, western juniper, Artemisia tridentata, big sagebrush, Purshia tridentata, antelope bitterbrush, Pseudoroegneria spicata, bluebunch wheatgrass, Festuca idahoensis, Idaho fescue, Texosporium sancti-jacobi, woven-spored lichen, relict vegetation, juniper invasion, sagebrush steppe.

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Schuller, Reid; Halvorson, Ron.  2008.  The Island Research Natural Area: guidebook supplement 35..   Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-762. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p..