Photo Point 147

Description: 
Upper Bear Canyon, as seen from the slope above General Hitchcock Campground. The canyon bottom is 40 - 59 % cover of Pinus ponderosa, Quercus arizonica. The tall trees on the opposite slope are doug fir and more ponderosa.
Photo: 

The foreground vegetation is dominated by silverleaf oak.

Photo date: 
October 5, 2008
Photo credit: 
Jim Malusa
View looking: 
SE
UTM Coordinate
Zone: 
12
E: 
529641
N: 
3582439
Height
Elevation: 
1840 m
In feet: 
6037 ft

Vegetation:

Life form: tree
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Quercus hypoleucoides dominant 25-39%

2.3m

Juniperus deppeana common 1-4%

1.5-3

Quercus emoryi common 1-4%

2.3

Quercus arizonica common 1-4%

2.3

Life form: shrub
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Ceanothus fendleri common 5-9%

1

Arctostaphylos pungens common 10-14%

1.3

Nolina microcarpa common 1-4%

1

Yucca baccata common <1%
Life form: grass
Species Relative abundance Cover Mean height in meters and notes
Muhlenbergia emersleyi common 5-9%