{"id":3730,"date":"2010-02-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/site-profile-trickle-mountain-saguache-county\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:51:26","slug":"site-profile-trickle-mountain-saguache-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2010\/02\/09\/site-profile-trickle-mountain-saguache-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Profile: Trickle Mountain, Saguache County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>B2: Very High Biodiversity Significance<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7022\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Trickle_Mtn.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Trickle Mountain\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Trickle_Mtn.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Trickle_Mtn-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Trickle Mountain site was identified during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnhp.colostate.edu\/download\/documents\/1998\/Saguache_Closed_Basin_Inventory_Vol.1.pdf\">1997 Closed Basin Inventory<\/a> in Saguache and Alamosa Counties. Here, a scenic landscape of mesas and small mountains dissected by short canyons supports a mosaic of montane woodlands and grasslands. In Colorado, this type of terrain is more typical of lower elevations to the west<\/p>\n<p>The vegetation of the Trickle Mountain area reflects its unusual setting. The mesa tops are dominated by an arid mixed-grass grassland of ring muhly (<i>Muhlenbergia filiculmis<\/i>) and lichen. The higher elevations of Trickle mountain are covered by Bristle cone pine (<i>Pinus aristata<\/i>) with Arizona fescue (<i>Festuca arizonica<\/i>), while ponderosa pine (<i>Pinus ponderosa<\/i>) with Arizona fescue or grasslands of mountain muhly (<i>Muhlenbergia montana<\/i>), ring muhly, and Arizona fescue dominate the lower slopes. The valleys between the plateaus are mostly a winterfat\/blue grama (<i>Krascheninnikovia lanata\/Bouteloua gracilis<\/i>) short-grass shrub-steppe that provides good habitat for Gunnison prairie dogs (<i>Cynomys gunnisoni gunnisoni<\/i>). The site also supports populations of two Colorado endemic plants: Weber\u2019s catseye (<i>Cryptantha weberi<\/i>) and rock-loving aletes (<i>Neoparrya lithophila<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B2: Very High Biodiversity Significance The Trickle Mountain site was identified during the 1997 Closed Basin Inventory in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-county-inventory","category-potential-conservation-areas","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}