Eighty years of vegetation and Eighty years of vegetation and landscape changes in the Northern Great Plains : a photographic record eightyyearsofveg45klem Year: 2001 Story, Wyoming Location Sheridan Co., WY; Sec. 15, R. 83 T. 53 N.; GPS-UTM 4936150 N. 353906 E. About 3 miles east of Story. From Buffalo, Wyoming, travel north on Interstate 90 to Exit 44. Travel northwest on Highway 87/Wyoming Highway 344 about 5 miles to Massacre Hill Monument, site of Fetterman Massacre. Photopoint is on the large hill about mile southwest of the monument. Description September8, 1999 Uplan
Eighty years of vegetation and Eighty years of vegetation and landscape changes in the Northern Great Plains : a photographic record eightyyearsofveg45klem Year: 2001 Story, Wyoming Location Sheridan Co., WY; Sec. 15, R. 83 T. 53 N.; GPS-UTM 4936150 N. 353906 E. About 3 miles east of Story. From Buffalo, Wyoming, travel north on Interstate 90 to Exit 44. Travel northwest on Highway 87/Wyoming Highway 344 about 5 miles to Massacre Hill Monument, site of Fetterman Massacre. Photopoint is on the large hill about mile southwest of the monument. Description September8, 1999 Uplands Grasses. Agropyron smithii, Stipa comata, Koeleria pyramidata. Poa pratensis, Poa secunda, Agropyron spicatum Shrubs. Artemisiafrigida. Gutierrezia sarothrae Roadside Grasses. Bromus inermis, Agropyron intermedium, Sporobolus cryptandrus, Agropyron smithii. Bromns japonicus Shrubs. Artemisia cana Bottomlands and Ridges Shrubs and Trees. Artemisia cana, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, Shepherdia argentea, Prunus virginiana, Salix spp., Fraxinus pennsylvanica. Populus tremuloides Synopsis Other than the landscaping from highway development (for ex- ample, note realignment of irrigation canal), the vegetation complex has changed very little over the past 80 years. The density and size of woody spe- cies appear to have increased slightly but nothing dramatic. 83
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