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Determine target plant assemblages
Greasewood flat associations
- Greasewood/saltgrass/basin wildrye
- Basin wildrye or Basin wildrye/basin big sagebrush
Riparian woodland
Notes:
May not be historic communities if conditions have been altered substantially (hard to identify what this is), but components of communities adapted to soils, restored water table,
Identify plant species adapted to:
Soils
Water table
Slope, aspect, elevation
Precipitation zone
Surrounding vegetation (fencerows)
Use adjacent or intact communities to identify conditions and plant composition pre-disturbance
-- few if any native remnant communities are left in floodplain terraces
-- habitat type was most affected -- first to be used for grazing and agriculture during European settlement and still today
Greasewood flat associations
5-20% basin wild rye
5-28% greasewood
0-13% saltgrass
1% Sandberg’s bluegrass
1% basin big sagebrush
0-3% sedge
For example, alkaline soils:
SAVE, DIST, no ARTR
Higher water table, more wetland shrubs
Lower water table, more xeric grasses (PSSP, ELEL, HECO)