Cold Cryic Udic Mountain Slopes (Mountain Hemlock Cold Moderately Moist Shrub/Herb)
Circle-spoke model
Scenario model
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Management practices/drivers
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Description
Plant List
Overstory Trees
Mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana)
Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis)
Subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)
Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii)
Western white pine (Pinus monticola)
Western larch (Larix occidentalis)
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta)
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis)
Understory Trees
Mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana)
Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis)
Subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)
Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
Understory Shrubs
Cascade azalea (Rhododendron albiflorum)
Big huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum)
Sidebells pyrola (Pyrola secunda)
Dwarf bramble (Rubus lasiococcus)
Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax)
Low huckleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)
Grouse huckleberry (Vaccinium scoparium)
Red mountain health (Phyllodoce empetriformis)
Cascade huckleberry (Vaccinium deliciosum)
Rusty menziesia (Menziesia ferruginea)
Understory Herbs
Broadleaf arnica (Arnica latifolia)
W. rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera oblongfolia)
Vanilla leaf (Achylys triphylla)
Smoothrush woodrush (Luzula hitchcockii)
Lupines (Lupin spp.)
Green fescue (Festuca viridula)
Arnica spp. (Arnica spp.)
Queencup beadily (Clintonia uniflora)
Rosy twistedstalk (Streptopus roseus)
Mosses (Moss spp.)
Submodel
States 1, 5 and 2 (additional transitions)
1.1. Mature Tree State
1.5. Mid-development Closed Stand -Sapling/Small Pole
1.2. Post-disturbance Herbaceous Community
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