Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Date of this Version
1-18-2013
Document Type
Technical Report
Citation
Steinauer, Robert F. 2013. 2013 Keya Paha Biological Unique Landscape Ecological Evaluation. Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. 20pp.
Abstract
The Nebraska Natural Legacy Project (Schneider et al, 2005), a statewide comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy developed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission (NGPC), identified the Keya Paha River drainage as a “Biologically Unique Landscape” (BUL). To facilitate conservation efforts, ecological evaluations of mesic prairie, wetlands, and bur oak woodland plant communities and surveys for Tier 1 and Tier 2 at-risk-plant species were conducted within the Keya Paha BUL.
Nebraska Natural Heritage Program (NNHP) Ecological Community Survey Forms were completed to document native plant communities and NNHP Rare Plant Survey Forms were completed to document rare plant occurrences (S1-S2 species) during surveys. Community nomenclature follows Rolfsmeier and Steinauer (2010) and plants species nomenclature follows Kaul et al (2011).
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