. Assessing the natural range of variability in minimally disturbed wetlands across the Rocky Mountains : the Rocky Mountain ReMAP project. Wetlands; Wet meadow ecology; Shrubland ecology; Flowers. order streams, and typically has little true wetland habitat. The other (Rocky Mountain Lower Mon- tane-Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland) is largely found in the wildland-urban interface, and initial field reconnaissance indicated that we would be unable to find sufficient examples of this system in minimally disturbed areas to meet our goals. The four systems retained in our study were the
. Assessing the natural range of variability in minimally disturbed wetlands across the Rocky Mountains : the Rocky Mountain ReMAP project. Wetlands; Wet meadow ecology; Shrubland ecology; Flowers. order streams, and typically has little true wetland habitat. The other (Rocky Mountain Lower Mon- tane-Foothill Riparian Woodland and Shrubland) is largely found in the wildland-urban interface, and initial field reconnaissance indicated that we would be unable to find sufficient examples of this system in minimally disturbed areas to meet our goals. The four systems retained in our study were the Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Fen; Rocky Mountain Alpine-Montane Wet Meadow; North American Arid West Emergent Marsh; and Rocky Mountain Subalpine-Montane Riparian Shrubland. See Appendix A for descriptions of these ecological systems. We further limited our sampling by choosing the four largest and most mountainous Level III ecore- gions (Omernik 1987) within our four-state area: The Canadian Rockies, the Middle Rockies, the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains and the Southern Rockies (See Map 1). Level III ecoregions are delineated on the basis of common geology, soils, hydrology, topography, climate, vegetation, water quality, and Canadian Rockies | Middle Rockies | Southern Rockies I Wasatch and Uinta Mountains Figure 1. Study ecoregions, Rocky Mountain Remap Project. " The National Wetlands Condition Assessment is using the aggregated ecoregions developed for the Wadeable Streams Assessment. This aggregated approach rolls up Level III ecoregions into 9 broad ecoregions. Our four ecoregions roughly correspond to the portions of the "Western Mountains" broad ecoregion lying within the four states of our study Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Vance, Linda K. (Kat
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