Vegetation Description, Rare Plant Inventory, and Vegetation Monitoring for Craig Mountain, Idaho. Metadata

Title

• Main Title Vegetation Description, Rare Plant Inventory, and Vegetation Monitoring for Craig Mountain, Idaho.

Creator

• Author: Mancuso, Michael
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Moseley, Robert
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Sponsor: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
  Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

• Name: Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, Boise, ID (United States)
  Place of Publication: United States

Date

• Creation: 1994-12-01

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: The Craig Mountain Wildlife Mitigation Area was purchased by Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) as partial mitigation for wildlife losses incurred with the inundation of Dworshak Reservoir on the North Fork Clearwater River. Upon completion of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process, it is proposed that title to mitigation lands will be given to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG). Craig Mountain is located at the northern end of the Hells Canyon Ecosystem. It encompasses the plateau and steep canyon slopes extending from the confluence of the Snake and Salmon rivers, northward to near Waha, south of Lewiston, Idaho. The forested summit of Craig Mountain is characterized by gently rolling terrain. The highlands dramatically break into the canyons of the Snake and Salmon rivers at approximately the 4,700 foot contour. The highly dissected canyons are dominated by grassland slopes containing a mosaic of shrubfield, riparian, and woodland habitats. During the 1993 and 1994 field seasons, wildlife, habitat/vegetation, timber, and other resources were systematically inventoried at Craig Mountain to provide Fish and Game managers with information needed to draft an ecologically-based management plan. The results of the habitat/vegetation portion of the inventory are contained in this report. The responsibilities for the Craig Mountain project included: (1) vegetation data collection, and vegetation classification, to help produce a GIS-generated Craig Mountain vegetation map, (2) to determine the distribution and abundance of rare plants populations and make recommendations concerning their management, and (3) to establish a vegetation monitoring program to evaluate the effects of Fish and Game management actions, and to assess progress towards meeting habitat mitigation goals.
• Physical Description: 440 Pages

Subject

• Keyword: Plant Communities - Idaho
• Keyword: Mountains
• Keyword: Salmon
• Keyword: Baseline Ecology
• Keyword: Rangelands
• Keyword: Rolling
• Keyword: Bonneville Power Administration
• Keyword: Abundance
• Keyword: Recommendations
• Keyword: Resource Management
• Keyword: Environmental Protection
• Keyword: Population Dynamics
• Keyword: Terrestrial Ecosystems
• STI Subject Categories: 13 Hydro Energy
• Keyword: Distribution
• Keyword: Columbia River
• Keyword: Classification
• Keyword: Habitat
• Keyword: Botany - Idaho
• Keyword: Plants
• Keyword: Rivers
• Keyword: Hydroelectric Power Plants
• Keyword: Environmental Effects
• Keyword: Monitoring
• Keyword: Mitigation
• Keyword: Information Systems Botany - Idaho
• Keyword: Idaho

Source

• Other Information: PBD: Dec 1994

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Report

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Other: DE96010786
• Report No.: DOE/BP-62547-1
• Grant Number: 1992BP62547
• DOI: 10.2172/226017
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 226017
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc664895

Note

• Display Note: INIS; OSTI as DE96010786