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These pines leave plenty of space for sunlight to penetrate through to the forest floor, which is filled with grasses, shrubs, flowering plants, and bushes (chokecherry, wax current, and serviceberry). Mountain bluebirds and Abert’s squirrels enjoy the abundance. On north-facing slopes, Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, and Engelmann spruce mix with ponderosa and create a less diverse forest floor. Meadows are comfortable homes for deer, elk, coyote, black bear, red-tailed hawks, and goshawks. These glacier-created meadows provide streams and wetlands for a variety of life, with succulent grasses, wildflowers, and aspen groves at the edges.
This vegetation supports montane vole and damselflies; waterfowl and songbird nesters; and wintering elk and mule deer. Refuge staff sets controlled fires to restore the matted vegetation from overuse. Eight thousand acres of upland habitat include semidesert shrubland and piñon and Utah juniper forests. A variety of grasses supports the sage grouse, Ord’s kangaroo rat, and sagebrush vole. Forest residents include unique species like gray flycatcher, piñon jay, bats, and lizards. This life-giving environment has been affected, however, by the damming of the Green River at Flaming Gorge in 1962.
Outdoor Books & Maps. White River National Forest Recreation Guide. Denver, CO: Outdoor Books & Maps, 1996. Yampa River Valley T he Yampa River is one of the only remaining waterways in the Colorado River Basin that resembles its natural flow. As such, it can support a streamside riparian ecosystem rare in the West. The Yampa still experiences seasonal flooding, which gently erodes and deposits sediment on the riverbank in what is called a river dance. The winding course of the river creates new forests and wetlands.