Table 1.	San Francisco Peaks Area - Major Environments
Life Zones (LZ)a:		8	7	6	5
		Alpine tundra	Spruce-Fir	Mixed conifer	Ponderosa Pine
Merriam:		Arctic	Hudsonian	Canadian	Transition
Deciduous forest,			aspen (warm sites)	aspen (common)	aspen (wet sites)
Parks,			Inner Basin	UpperHart Prairie	LowerHart Prairie
dry meadows,			Fescue meadows	Fescue meadows	Fescue meadows
prairies,				Oldham Park	Kendrick Park
forest openings				Turkey Park	Pinyon-Juniperb
woodlands,			Bristlecone pineb	Lockett Meadow	Juniper/mahoganyb
Shrub thickets,			Willow thickets	Sunset Park	Shrubby cinquefoil
Wetlands,		melting	streamsides	tanksc	tanksc
		snowfields	wet meadows	streamsides	streamsides
			springs & seeps	wet meadows	wet meadows
			melting	springs & seeps	springs & seeps
			snowfields	Crater Lake	upper Rio de Flag
				Bismarck Lake	Walker Lake
Disturbed areas,			lineard	linear	linear
			patchye	patchy	patchy
			avalanche tracks	firef	fire
Special		talus	talus	…... rock  cracks  and  ledgesg …….
environmentsa,		gravelly soils	gravelly soils		gravelly soils
					January 3, 2006
a- for descriptions see Terrestrial Ecosystems Survey of the Coconino National Forest (1995), 404 p, maps,  A 13.43/2: C64/2
b- woodlands feature trees less than 20 ft (≈8 m) tall at maturity and are inclusions in the indicated LZs.
c- see Ricketson (1990).
d- road and trail sides, utility easements, pipelines, ski lifts.
e- prairie dogs, pocket gophers, and other-caused locally disturbed soils.
f- Hochderffer (1996), Radio (Mt Elden 1977), and smaller fires elsewhere.
g- primarily dacitic rock outcrops and boulders at Mount Elden and Dry Lake Hills.