Upper Strawberry Creek
1938
2004
Description:
Plate 577X. Upper Strawberry Creek 1938 – 2004 Viewed southeast across Strawberry Valley, just above Broad Hollow. The foreground has been root-plowed and reseeded with smooth brome, Kentucky bluegrass, and crested wheatgrass. Green and rubber rabbitbrush have invaded the seeding. The low shrubs near the stream in the distance are shrubby cinquefoil. Conifers, primarily spruce and white fir, have increased, while aspen has declined. Aspen at the edge of the meadow regenerated when mule deer numbers were low, but those saplings have since been highlined by increasing numbers of elk and deer (Kay and Bartos 2000).
Photo Information:
U.S. Forest Service photograph (369083) taken by W.H. Shaeffer on August 22, 1938; retake by Charles E. Kay on August 8, 2004 - - Photo No. 5374-9A. Original photograph held by Southern Utah University Archives and Special Collections, Cedar City, UT.
Vegetative Community:
Mountain Brush, Conifer, Aspen
Location:
South West: Section 30, Range 7 West, Township 38 South; UTM 352350 E, 4148500 N; elevation 8,210 ft.