The reference state has a mixed plant community made up of Utah juniper and twoneedle pinyon pine with a understory of grasses, forbs and shrubs. There is a mixture of cool and warm season grasses.
Plant species most likely to increase or invade on this site are cheatgrass, thrifty goldenweed, stemless goldenweed, other annual weedy forbs, broom snakeweed, Greene rabbitbrush and Bigelow sagebrush. Unmanaged grazing during the winter and spring periods will decrease cool season grasses which are replaced by lower forage value grasses and forbs.
Submodel
1.1. Forestland with Grass Understory
1.2. Forestland with an Understory of Mixed Grasses and Shrubs
Umanaged grazing, drought, introduction of non-natives.
Model keys
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