<b>Harvey Monroe Hall Natural Area</b>, Mono County, California.

Eastern Mojave Vegetation

Harvey Monroe Hall Natural Area, Mono County, California.

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See also: Mount Conness. Slate Creek.

Dr. H. M. Hall of the Carnegie Institution proposed that this research area be set aside in 1931. Forester R. Y. Stuart approved the classification as a Natural Area on January 6, 1933. The Forest Service and the Carnegie Institution executed an unprecedented Cooperative Agreement permitting the Institution to conduct scientific research including allowed changes in soil and vegetation cover ans structures, improvement and installations "required in the conduct of research." Under the agreement, the Carnegie Institution, based at their Timberline Experiment Station in the HRNA, conducted research there until 1971 or 1972. Principal research focused on genecology, using transplant experiments to analyze morphological changes in plant species grown at several elevations and latitudes. Some of the major California botanists cooperated in research at Timberline, notably the "Big Three," Jens C. Clausen, William H. Hiesey, and David D. Keck.

The HRNA encompasses about 3,883 acres (1571 ha) of alpine and subalpine plant communities on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, adjacent to Yosemite National Park. The area lies completely within the precipitous eastern escarpment of the range with a vertical relief od 2790 ft (850 m), from about 9800 ft (2987 m) at Slate Creek to 12,590 ft (3837 m) on the summit of Mt. Conness.

The HRNA is underlain by granitic and metamorphic rock: the substrate of the western two-thirds consists of Half Dome Quartz Monzonite and Cathedral Peak Quartz Monzonite and the eastern third is a complex of metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Paleozoic Gull Lake Roof Pendant and Mesozoic Ritter Range Roof Pendant.

For plant collections made int the Harvey Monroe Hall Natural Area, see "Slate Creek Valley."

Latitude: 37.9602018 Longitude: -119.2984892 (° decimal)
Elevation: 10364ft, 3159m.

Articles that refer to this location:

Field Notes: 20070627040;

Literature Referring To This Location:

Clausen J., D. D. Keck D. D. and W. M. Heisey. 1940. Experimental studies on the nature of species I: The effect of varied environments on western North American plants. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication. 520.
Clausen, J., D. D. Keck, and W. M. Heisey. 1948. Experimental studies on the nature of species III: Environmental responses to climatic races of Achillea. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication. 581.
DeSante, David. 1986. A field test of the variable circular-plot censusing method in a Sierran subalpine forest habitat. The Condor. 88(2):129-142. {TAS-pdf}
Taylor, Dean Wm. 1984. Vegetation of the Harvey Monroe Hall Research Natural Area. U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station.
Woolfenden, Wallace B. 1992. Harvey Monroe Hall Natural Research Area Management Plan. August 1992. {TAS-pdf}

Area Plant Lists that contain this location:

Area Plant List for Upper Mono Basin.

Species collected at or near this location.

This list summarizes plants collected or observed at this specific, named location. It does not include plants collected or observed at nearby named or unnamed locations. It may be more instructive to use the Area Lists that contain this location.

TAS – The plant was collected by Tom Schweich.
Oth – The plant was collected by someone, but not Tom.
Obs – The plant was observed, but not collected.

Pinaceae

Pinus contorta Loudon murrayana (Grev. & Balf.) Critchf. Sierra Lodgepole Pine (Oth)

Asteraceae

Senecioneae

Packera werneriifolia (A. Gray) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve. Hoary Groundsel (Oth)

Senecio integerrimus Nutt. exaltatus (Nutt.) Cronquist. Columbia Ragwort (Oth)

Boraginaceae

Hackelia micrantha (Eastw.) J. L. Gentry. Jessica Sticktight (Oth)

Ericaceae

Arctostaphylos nevadensis A. Gray. Pinemat Manzanita (Oth)

Montiaceae

Lewisia nevadensis (A. Gray) B. L. Rob. Nevada Lewisia (Oth)

Onagraceae

Epilobium minutum Lindl. Minute Willow Herb (Oth)

Epilobium obcordatum A. Gray. Rockfringe (Oth)

Epilobium oregonense Hausskn. Oregon Spike Primrose (Oth)

Orobanchaceae

Pedicularis attollens A. Gray. Little Elephant's Head (Oth)

Polemoniaceae

Polemonium pulcherrimum Hook. (Oth)

Poaceae

Aveneae

Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) Schult. Prairie Junegrass (Oth)

Phleum alpinum L. Alpine Timothy (Oth)

Eragrostideae

Muhlenbergia filiformis (Thurb. ex S. Watson) Rydb. Pullup Muhly (Oth)

Poeae

Festuca brachyphylla Schult. & Schult. f. Alpine Fescue (Oth)

Festuca brachyphylla Schult. & Schult. f. breviculmis Fred. Alpine Fescue (Oth)

Poa cusickii Vasey cusickii. Cusick's Bluegrass (Oth)

Triticeae

Elymus sierrae Gould. (Oth)

Total number of taxa:	18
Native Taxa: (serif, italic, bold)	18
Exotic Taxa: (sans-serif, italic)	0
Nativity Undetermined: (default font, italic)	0
Listed Weeds: Identified as Weed	0

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Date and time this article was prepared:5:36:20 PM, 11/3/2024.