Riparian
Montane Riparian
Dominated by willows, alder, dogwood, mountain maple, and water birch; can include narrowleaf cottonwood, spruce, and sedges/rushes; occurs in a mountain setting.
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Plains/Basin Riparian
Dominated by cottonwoods, elderberry, buffaloberry, introduced Russian olive, boxelder, willows, green ash, American elm, snowberry, chokecherry, Virginia creeper, and/or grasses/ rushes/sedges; occurs in a lower elevation setting.
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Wetlands
Areas where water is present most of the time; includes marshes, shallow water, and areas with water-saturated soil; vegetation includes cattails, rushes, sedges, and willows.
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Aquatic
Dominated by open, deep water; includes lakes, ponds, and reservoirs.

Meadows
Includes wet-moist meadows and wet-moist meadow grasslands.

Grassland
Shortgrass
Prairie Includes but may not be limited to blue grama, buffalo grass, wheatgrass, bluestem, and needle-and-thread grass; includes mixed grass species in localized areas.
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Alpine Tundra/Grassland
Tundra, alpine meadows, boulder fields, above 11,000 feet.
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Forest
High Elevation Conifer
Dominated by Englemann spruce/subalpine fir; can include lodgepole pine, whitebark pine, and aspen.
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Mid Elevation Conifer
Mixed conifer; pure or mixed stands that can include limber pine, Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, blue spruce, and/or ponderosa pine; can include aspen.
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Low Elevation Conifer
Dominated by ponderosa pine.
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Aspen
Dominated by aspen; can include meadows or conifers.
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Shrubland
Juniper Woodland
Dominated by juniper, but may include other species.
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Shrub-steppe
Dominated by sagebrush, greasewood, saltbush, and rabbitbrush; can include a grass component.
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Mountain-foothills Shrub
Pure or mixed shrub stands that can include but are not limited to mountain mahogany, serviceberry, Gambel's oak, bitterbrush, skunkbush sumac, snowberry, hawthorn, wild plum, chokecherry, and boxelder.
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Other Habitat Groups
Agricultural
Croplands Includes pasture, croplands, irrigated native meadows, shelterbelts, and Conservation Reserve Program lands.
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Urban
Urbanized areas.
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Specialized Habitats
Areas having unique characteristics such as rock outcrops, cliffs, caves, shorelines, banks, burns, buildings, mines, roadsides, logging, etc.
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