| NOTES TO USERS: | |
| 1. | Sites are arranged by biophysical setting and succesional stage as defined by the LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings Model descriptions (Rollins and Frame 2006). Figure 1 (below), however, shows how sites would be arranged in order of increasing aboveground biomass. |
| 2. | A list of scientific and common species names can be found in the introductory notes for Volume XI. |
| 3. | Photographs were taken in July 2008. Sampling was performed in July and August 2008. |
| 4. | The year of sampling (2008) was considered an “above average” growing year for grasses and other herbaceous vegetation. |
| 5. | The marker in these photographs is a 1-foot square, and the pole is painted in contrasting colors at 1-foot intervals. The pole is 30 feet from the camera and is six-feet tall. |
| 6. | Forest floor and woody material loading, and understory biomass are reported in tons per acre. The designation of "na" indicates cases where data are missing or "not available." |
| 7. | This series predominantly covers a range of biophysical settings for Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana (mountain big sagebrush), Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis ( Wyoming big sagebrush), and Artemisia arbuscula (low sagebrush). Also included in this series are two sites (EOSG 01, EOSG 02) dominated by the invasive annual grass Taeniatherum caput-medusae (medusahead); and two sites (EOSG 03, EOSG 04) dominated by the naturalized perennial grass Agropyron cristatum (crested wheatgrass). |
