August 17, 2005

Road 110, coming from 31, Huntington Creek Road, up Nuck Woodward Canyon.  Trough Springs Ridge Allotment

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Compacted ground, erosion just above the clone

Intermediate wheatgrass planted at junction.  Small ramets on upper side of the aspen clone -- this year's sprouts, or nipped off this year.  Juniperus communis  the only shrub; some grasses.

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Ramet this year, nipped off.  About 9"

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"Invasion" of the small clone by conifers

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Aspen ramet browsed.

Short Canyon Trail to Trough Springs Ridge

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Even-aged stand of aspen; low rose bushes; few little ones

Sheep pellets in the trail.  Dead young aspen by trail: vole damage.  Essentially no old aspen/snags in stands along the trail

Going up from meadow, Short Canyon Trail

9,491'

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Isolated stand of aspen; little recruitment; many sheep hoof holes; young browsed aspen

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Ramets above the stand on the slope browsed back to about 2 ½ feet

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Eroding slope above the aspen stand

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Two old aspen showing how young most remaining stands are

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Looking north -- erosion on slope and aspen stand failing

Back down near meadow

9,704'

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Pounded pond.  The aspen stand beyond has no recruitment.  Many browsed sprouts

August 17, 2005

Back at the "meadow"

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A field of browsed aspen ramets near "conifer-invaded" clone

Driving up Nuck Woodward Creek; Wed. eve

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Aspen grove above Nuck Woodward Creek.  Zero recruitment; some spruce

Top of Nuck Woodward Canyon on newly constructed OGM road

9,522'

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Sheep grazing in aspen grove with little recruitment; below new oil/gas road.

Road 064 to Huntington Peak

9,513'

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Bare, compacted ground near old aspen stand; no new ramets.

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Lots of sprouts repeatedly browsed back; Vole tunnels; bare ground

East of So. Skyline Rd., no. of Towhead

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Slope above flock of sheep

On Bald Ridge, out by "invaded-by-conifer-aspen"

9,355'

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Some spruce coming into heavily-browsed aspen clone.  A few aspen recruits

Fragmented aspen stand.  Road through it.  Mostly open with sagebrush and rabbitbrush understory.  Some Ranunculaceae.  Recent sheep footprints in the road

August 17, 2005

Becks Creek

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Aspen groves have lots of young ramets.

Mostly inaccessible for sheep grazing: steep canyons.  Seems to be areas of aspen and separate areas of spruce on the steep slopes where probably not grazed by sheep.