Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range is part of the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains Level 3 Ecoregion, a temperate coniferous forest. Common trees include Douglas fir ("Pseudotsuga menziesii"), subalpine fir ("Abies bifolia"), Engelmann spruce ("Picea engelmannii"), Colorado blue spruce ("Picea pungens"), and quaking aspen ("Populus tremuloides"). Gambel oak ("Quercus gambelii") is common on the foothills of the range from just south of Brigham City in the north, to the southern extension of the Wasatch Range. It is not found in the northern portion of the Range. Ponderosa pine ("Pinus ponderosa"), while abundant elsewhere in Utah is not common in this mountain range, except in plantations in Big Cottonwood Canyon southeast of Salt Lake City and in Logan Canyon, east of Logan. Some individual trees have been found in remote areas of the Wasatch Range that appear to be relic individuals from past populations.