Ecological Sites - Deep Sand, The National Rangeland Judging Contest, Judging Rangeland for Livestock and Wildlife Values

The National Rangeland Judging Contest
Judging Rangeland for Livestock and Wildlife Values

Deep Sand

Sandy, coarse textured, rapidly permeable, soils greater than 20 inches deep. This site is predominately a tall grass site with some woodies and a variety of forbs and legumes, occurring as gently undulating, low hummocky or steep rolling uplands. The vegetation was formed under migratory grazing and heavy impact from bison and other native wildlife, with fires in both the dormant and grow-ing
Site Composition Maximum Observed Composition Percent Counted Toward SI

Vegetation Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 Site 1 Site 2 Site 3

Grasses 70%

little bluestem 10 ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

big bluestem
switchgrass
Indiangrass 35 ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

sand lovegrass
Canada wildrye
Texas bluegrass
sideoats grama
blue grama
tall dropseed
sand dropseed
purpletop
Scribner's panicum
other natives 25 ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______

invasives 0 ______ ______ ______ ___0__ ___0__ ___0__

Forbs and Legumes
prairie acacia
groundplum
tickclover
roundhead lespedeza
scurfpea
catclaw sensitivebrier
trailing wildbean
western ragweed
sagewort
Texas croton
snow-on-the-mountain
halfshrub sundrop
other natives
invasives

20%
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Woodies
sand sagebrush
hackberry
sand plum
fragrant sumac
other natives
invasives

10%
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100%

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