Ecological Types of the Upper Gunnison Basin

Ecological Types
of the
Upper Gunnison Basin 

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This publication comes in two formats, the Desk Guide and the Field Guide.

  • The Desk Guide is 868  81" pages when printed, and contains full keys and descriptions for all the Ecological Types of the Upper Gunnison Basin (map).
  • The Field Guide is 298  6quot; pages when printed. It is an abridgement of the Desk Guide for field use.
  • A small quantity of both documents were printed, so paper copies may not be available. However, you can request a compact disk containing these files. Please call (970)874-6626 to request a CD. 

Desk Guide

Document Title Pages Size in KB
Title, Contents, Acknowledgements, Summary [i] - xi 594
Introduction 1 - 3 208
Vegetation of the Upper Gunnison Basin 4 - 9 424
Soils, Geology and Landforms 10 - 45 1,333
Climate 46 - 59 1,483
Methods Used for Field Data and Analysis 60 - 64 311
Key to Ecological Types and Community Types, and Table 65 - 117 2,346
Description of Ecological Types 118 - 133 1,502
    Series 1.  Rocky Mountain Juniper 134 - 140 430
    Series 2.  Ponderosa Pine 141 - 157 788
    Series 3.  Bristlecone Pine 158 - 167 641
    Series 4.  Douglas-Fir 168 - 219 3,489
    Series 5.  Blue Spruce Uplands 220 - 231 734
    Series 6.  Lodgepole Pine 232 - 245 829
    Series 7.  Subalpine Fir-Douglas-Fir 246 - 258 815
    Series 8.  Subalpine Fir-Engelmann Spruce 259 - 306 2,584
    Series 9.  Limber Pine 307 - 310 258
    Series 10.  Aspen 311 - 337 1,358
    Series 11.  Narrowleaf Cottonwood 338 - 357 1,128
    Series 12.  Blue and Engelmann Spruces-Subalpine Fir Riparian 358 - 381 981
    Series 13.  Yellow Willow 382 - 394 802
    Series 14.  Blue Willow-Serviceberry Willow-Booth Willow 395 - 409 991
    Series 15.  Planeleaf Willow-Wolf Willow-Bog Birch 410 - 432 1,300
    Series 16.  Grayleaf Willow-Barrenground 433 - 438 427
    Series 17.  Water Sedge 439 - 446 708
    Series 18.  Indian Ricegrass-Needle-and-Thread 447 - 455 536
    Series 19.  Arizona Fescue 456 - 469 801
    Series 20.  Thurber Fescue 470 - 490 1,127
    Series 21.  Osha 491 - 498 526
    Series 22.  Idaho Fescue 499 - 502 443
    Series 23.  Timber Oatgrass 503 - 507 504
    Series 24.  Purple Pinegrass 508 - 512 356
    Series 25.  Utah Serviceberry-Saskatoon Serviceberry 513 - 555 2,042
    Series 26.  Rocky Tall-Shrublands 556 - 560 271
    Series 27.  Wyoming Big Sagebrush 561 - 573 636
    Series 28.  Black Sagebrush 574 - 585 680
    Series 29.  Big Sagebrush-Antelope Bitterbrush 586 - 626 1,793
    Series 30.  Mountain Big Sagebrush 627 - 646 1,008
    Series 31.  Low Sagebrush 647 - 662 710
    Series 32.  Silver Sagebrush 663 - 668 329
    Alpine Ecological Types 669 - 678 984
Discussion 679 - 685 380
Glossary 686 - 705 683
Literature Cited 706 - 743 748
Index 744 - 755 378
Appendix A.  Plant Species of the Upper Gunnison Basin 756 - 787 5,687
Appendix B.  Management of Plant Species 788 - 857 4,196
Appendix C.  Codes for Geological Map Units 858 90

Field Guide

Document Title Pages Size in KB
Title and Summary [i] - iii 183
Introduction 1 - 4 444
Key to Ecological Types 5 - 25 490
Key to Series 26 - 47 1,289
    FD - Series 1-6 - Part 1 48 - 65 1,067
    FD - Series 1-6 - Part 2 66 - 77 613
    FD - Series 1-6 - Part 3 78 - 93 870
    FL - Series 7-9 94 - 117 1,482
    FM - Series 10 118 - 127 622
    FR - Series 11-12 128 - 147 1,184
    RI - Series 13-17 148 - 177 1,902
    GA - Series 18-24 178 - 197 1,433
    SA - Series 25-26 198 - 217 1,195
    SB - Series 27-28 218 - 225 498
    SS - Series 29 226 - 245 962
    SU - Series 30-32 246 - 265 1,041
    AL - Alpine Types 266 - 275 1,065
Glossary 276 - 283 152
Plant Species and Codes 284 - 290 639
Index 291 - 295 370