. Inventory of plants, plant communities and herpetofauna of concern in the vicinity of the Snow-Talon burn, Helena National Forest . Figure 3. ATV track through Keep Cool Lake wetlands The ATV track goes on to connect the Upper with Lower Keep Cool Lake. Along this route, timothy has expanded extensively to dominate what could have been a species-rich blue wildrye (Elymus glaucus) dominated meadow. Blue wildrye is now is only scattered at the site. If true, this meadow, although probably not a jurisdictional wetland, could have been a unique meadow type (G2) known (as of 1998) from only Cali
. Inventory of plants, plant communities and herpetofauna of concern in the vicinity of the Snow-Talon burn, Helena National Forest . Figure 3. ATV track through Keep Cool Lake wetlands The ATV track goes on to connect the Upper with Lower Keep Cool Lake. Along this route, timothy has expanded extensively to dominate what could have been a species-rich blue wildrye (Elymus glaucus) dominated meadow. Blue wildrye is now is only scattered at the site. If true, this meadow, although probably not a jurisdictional wetland, could have been a unique meadow type (G2) known (as of 1998) from only California and Oregon (Anderson et al. 1998) and not previously reported from Montana. The ATV trail continues to the perimeter of Lower Keep Cool Lake and, in at least two locations, there were massive disturbances where they had to be extricated from the mud. There is a small stand of willows at the head of the Lower Lake including Drummond's, Booth's, and Bebb's (S. bebbiana) willows; the vegetation association most similar is Drummond's willow / beaked sedge. Extending to both the north and south of the inlet and arcing around to the west is an extensive and typically species-poor beaked sedge association; common associates are swordleaf rush {Juncus ensifolius), wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) and, in standing water, pondweed. Along a more western portion of the northern shore a sort of reverse zonation was encountered where the wettest community, the beaked sedge association, was nearest the upland, giving way centripetally to a common spikerush - tufted hairgrass community, in turn grading to a nearly pure tufted hairgrass association and lastly to a saturated surface with water-filled mini-depressions and much exposed mud that has been uniquely, and virtually monospecifically, colonized by greater creeping spearwort {Ranunculus flammuld). Greater creeping spearwort is a common early colonizer of mudflats, especially those with brackish waters, but usually it occurs only a
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