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General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-22
The Northern Goshawk in Utah: Habitat Assessment and Management Recommendations


Status and Distribution of Habitat in Utah

Table 8 -- Proportion of each potential vegetation type currently in various forest cover types.


Potential vegetation typeb

Current Cover type

WF

SAF

ES

LPP

PP

DF

QA

P/J


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Percent - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
White fir

84

2

-

-

-

-

-

-
Subalpine fir

1

45

-

2

6

-

3

2
Pinyon pine/Utah juniper

-

-

-

-

-

99

-

-
Lodgepole pine

-

14

2

-

-

-

16
Lodgepole pine/quaking aspen

-

3

51

12

-

-

2

-
Engelmann spruce

12

1

18

-

-

-

-
Engelmann spruce/subalpine fir

-

8

-

49

-

-

-

-
Engelmann spruce/lodgepole pine

-

20

6

14

-

-

-

-
Engelmann spruce/Douglas-fir

-

-

-

-

-

-

2

-
Ponderosa pine

1

1

-

1

84

-

1

2
Cottonwood

-

-

2

-

-

1

-

-
Quaking aspen

2

4

11

2

9

-

84

-
Douglas-fir

3

3

2

-

-

-

-

18
Douglas-fir/ponderosa pine/
quaking aspen/lodgepole pine

1

-

13

-

-

-

-

-
Douglas-fir/subalpine fir

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

-
Quaking aspen/subalpine fir

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

-
Douglas-fir/quaking aspen

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

61
Gambel oak

-

1

-

-

-

-

4

2
Gambel oak/big tooth maple

10

-

-

-

-

-

-

-
Gambel oak/quaking aspen

-

-

-

-

-

-

3

-


aRefer to footnotes in table 1 for potential vegetation type definition.

bRefer to footnotes in table 1 for cover type definition.

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Title: Status and Distribution of Habitat in Utah: Table 8 RMRS-GTR-22 - The Northern Goshawk in Utah: Habitat Assessment and Management Recommendations
Electronic Publish Date: May 26, 1999
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Last Update:
January 15, 2002

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