NCC Asquith (ASQ)
Core Metadata
Site Location
8km N of Asquith; 45min W of Saskatoon
Description
This native grassland site is within the Nature Conservancy of Canada Asquith Complex. As such it is a managed to enhance and maintain its ecological values with volunteer categorization of biodiversity and controlled grazing through leases. This site is dominated by plains rough fescue, trembling aspen and northern snowberry. The land features stabilized sand dunes. It has a Saskatchewan Soil Capability index of Class 5 and contains sandy loam and sand ecosites.
Samples 221-240 (NV) and 241-260 (LL).
Loam sand (NV) and sand (LL).
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