Eighty years of vegetation and Eighty years of vegetation and landscape changes in the Northern Great Plains : a photographic record eightyyearsofveg45klem Year: 2001 Custer State Park, South Dakota Location Custer Co., SD; Sec. 25, R. 6 E., T. 3 S.; GPS-UTM 4847163 N, 633332 E (of roadside turnout). About 11 miles west-southwest of Hermosa. From Hermosa, South Dakota, continue south on South Dakota Highway 79 about 1 mile to junc- tion of South Dakota Highway 36. Turn right (west) onto South Dakota Highway 36 and travel about 10 miles to the Custer State Park entrance station. From entrance
Eighty years of vegetation and Eighty years of vegetation and landscape changes in the Northern Great Plains : a photographic record eightyyearsofveg45klem Year: 2001 Custer State Park, South Dakota Location Custer Co., SD; Sec. 25, R. 6 E., T. 3 S.; GPS-UTM 4847163 N, 633332 E (of roadside turnout). About 11 miles west-southwest of Hermosa. From Hermosa, South Dakota, continue south on South Dakota Highway 79 about 1 mile to junc- tion of South Dakota Highway 36. Turn right (west) onto South Dakota Highway 36 and travel about 10 miles to the Custer State Park entrance station. From entrance of park, continue west on South Dakota Highway 36 about mile. Photopoint is near a left-of-road (south) gravel turnoff. Photopoint is also miles east of Custer State Park Game Lodge on South Dakota Highway 36. Description September 21, 1999 Open Grassland Park Grasses. Agropyron smithii, Andropogon gerardii, Poa secunda, Poa pratensis Forbs. Ambrosia psilostachya, Grindelia squarrosa, Artemisia ludoviciana, Solidago spp. Echinacea angustifolia. Vervain spp. Shrubs and Trees. Rosa woodsii, Symphoricarpos occidentalis, Pinus ponderosa Synopsis A very diverse vegetation com- plex, but Psoralea tenuiflora was considered rare in 1927 and it was absent in 1999. Agropyron smithii remains the overwhelm- ing dominant. Density and size of Pinus ponderosa trees have continued to increase. Highway and roadside parking area have been realigned since 1958. 51
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