Roger Lake Research Natural Area.
By: J. Dana Visalli.
Contributors: Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)
Series: General technical report PNW-GTR -- 685.; General technical report PNW -- 685.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Research natural areas -- Washington (State) -- Okanogan National Forest.; Research natural areas -- Washington (State) -- Wenatchee National Forest.; Natural resources management areas -- Washington (State) -- Okanogan National Forest.; Natural resources management areas -- Washington (State) -- Wenatchee National Forest.
Description: Roger Lake Research Natural Area (RNA), a 174.7-ha reserve in north-central Washington, contains a rich diversity of landforms, plant communities, and wildlife habitats. Spreading outward from the lake itself, sedge and sphagnum fens give way to upland coniferous forest, granitic cliffs, and a relictual, high-altitude big sagebrush-whitebark pine (Artemisia tridentata-Pinus albicaulis) meadow. Five sensitive plant species and several vertebrate species that are rare in the region occur in the RNA. Dynamic ecological processes in action in the RNA are revealed in the paludification of the forest edge; aging, broken beaver dams; and widespread bark beetle-induced conifer mortality.
Notes: Cover title.

"December 2006."

The PNW Research Station is publishing this guidebook as part of a continuing series of books on federal research natural areas begun in 1972.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 20-22).

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