MAPPING UNIT ATTRIBUTE CODE: 43000

MAPPING UNIT NAME: Mixed forest land type.

DOMINANT SPECIES: Varied

DESCRIPTION: This type includes all forested areas where both evergreen
and deciduous trees are growing and neither predominates. When more than
one-third intermixture of either evergreen or deciduous species occurs in a
specific area, it is classified as mixed forest land. Where the intermixed
land use total less than one-third of the specified area, the category
appropriate to the dominant type of forest land applied, whether deciduous
or evergreen (Anderson, et al. 1976). In practice, the Land Use/ Land
Cover map used by Colorado Gap seemed to include the following vegetation
cover combinations in the class "Mixed Forest": pinyon-juniper-Gambel oak,
Ponderosa pine-Gambel oak, Ponderosa pine-Aspen, Spruce-fir-Aspen, Mixed
conifer-Aspen.

DISTRIBUTION: Throughout western Colorado.

ELEVATION RANGE:

DIAGNOSTIC SPECIES: (see DESCRIPTION)