Riparian and Wetland
Educational Photos

Examples of Ecological and Management Relationships of Riparian and Wetland Types of Montana

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Fraxinus pennsylvanica/Prunus virginiana (green ash/common chokecherry) Habitat Type

 

 

Fraxinus pennsylvanica/Prunus virginiana (green ash/common chokecherry) Habitat Type

 

 

Fraxinus pennsylvanica/Prunus virginiana (green ash/common chokecherry) Habitat Type

 

 

Riparian Complex

 

 

Beaver Dam Complex

 

 

Coniferous-Dominated Floodplains

 

 

Salix exigua (sandbar willow) Community Type

 

 

Salix exigua (sandbar willow) Community Type

 

 

Salix drummondiana (Drummond willow) Community Type

 

 

Salix geyeriana/Carex rostrata (Geyer willow/beaked sedge) Habitat Type

 

 

Salix geyeriana/Calamagrostis canadensis (Geyer willow/bluejoint reedgrass) Habitat Type

 

 

 

Acer negundo/Prunus virginiana (box-elder/common chokecherry) Habitat Type

 

 

Populus deltoides/Herbaceous (Great Plains cottonwood/herbaceous) c.t.

 

 

Populus deltoides/Cornus stolonifera (Great Plains cottonwood/red-osier dogwood) Community Type

 

 

Populus deltoides (Great Plains cottonwood) Recent Alluvial Bar

 

 

Populus trichocarpa/Cornus stolonifera (black cottonwood/red-osier dogwood) Community Type

 

 

Pseudotsuga menziesii/Cornus stolonifera (Douglas fir/red-osier dogwood) Habitat Type

 

 

Natural Disturbance - Flash Flood Event

 

 

Floodplain Ice Damage to Cottonwoods

 

 

Scirpus acutus (hardstem bulrush) Habitat Type