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Virgin/Shivwits Woodland
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Colorado Plateau
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The Virgin/Shivwits Woodland ecoregion covers the mid- to upper-elevations of the Virgin Mountains in Nevada and Arizona, as well as the upper elevations of the Shivwits Plateau to the southeast. Elevations range from 4000 to just over 8000 feet. The woodland of the Virgin Mountains has interior chaparral species interspersed with singleleaf pinyon and Utah juniper. On the lower slopes of the Virgin Mountains, juniper mixes with Joshua tree and Mojave yucca; here, woodland starts at a lower elevation than in the Mojave Basin and Range (14). Mountain brush grows on upland slopes above the woodland. Isolated pockets of Rocky Mountain white fir and Douglas-fir also occur, small outliers of a higher montane zone not mapped at this scale. On the Shivwits Plateau, pinyon, juniper, big sagebrush, cliffrose, Mormon tea, and various grasses occur. A few cool upper drainages have some ponderosa pine, but there is less pine than in Ecoregion 22y.
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