A Guide to Soil Quality Monitoring for Long Term Ecosystem Sustainability on Northern Region National Forests

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HABITAT TYPES

[Last Update: 06/08/2007]

Land units have also been classified based on the potential climax natural vegetation that can be supported. Several compilations of habitat types have been produced for National Forest lands in Region 1. These include:

• Forest Habitat Types of Central Idaho by Steele, Pfister, Ryker and Kittams (GTR INT-114, 1981)
  • Productivity/Management and Soils Excerpts [HTML]
  • Entire Volume in PDF format
    • Part 1 [PDF file - 34.2 MB]
      (contains entire volume except for appendix C-2 and photo poster insert listed below)
    • Appendix C-2, page 1 [PDF file - 3.6 MB]
    • Appendix C-2, page 2 [PDF file - 3.4 MB]
    • Examples [PDF file - 6 MB]:
      (photos and descriptions from poster insert)
• Forest Habitat Types of Montana by Pfister, Kovalchik, Arno and Presby (GTR INT-34, 1977)
  • Productivity/Management and Soils Excerpts [HTML]
  • Entire Volume in PDF format
    • Part 1 [PDF file - 29.6 MB]
      (contains entire volume except for appendix C-2 and photo poster insert listed below)
    • Appendix C-2, page 1 [PDF file - 6.8 MB]
    • Appendix C-2, page 2 [PDF file - 6.7 MB]
    • Examples [PDF file - 7 MB]
      (photos and descriptions from poster insert)
• Forest Habitat Types of Northern Idaho: A Second Approximation by Cooper, Neiman, Steele and Roberts (GTR INT-236, 1991)
  • Productivity/Management and Soils Excerpts [HTML]
  • Entire Volume in PDF format [PDF file - 33.6 MB]
• Plant Community Classification for Alpine Vegetation on the Beaverhead National Forest, Montana by Cooper, Lesica, and Page-Dumroese (GTR INT-362, 1997)
  • Productivity/Management and Soils Excerpts [HTML]
  • Entire Volume in PDF format [PDF file - 6.45 MB]

Studies associated with specific habitat types or geographical regions give us an indication of conditions and relationships on similar sites in the Region.

In northern Idaho:

• Soil-Plant Community Relationships in the Selkirk Mountains of Northern Idaho. McDaniel, P.A., K.E. Houston, M.A. Fosberg and A.L. Falen. 1994. Northwest Sci., Vol. 68, No. 1. pp 22-30.