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Compass Issue 8
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Compass is a quarterly publication of the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station (SRS). As part of the Nation's largest forestry research organization -- USDA Forest Service Research and Development -- SRS serves 13 Southern States and beyond. The Station's 130 scienists work in more than 20 units located across the region at Federal laboratories, universites, and experimental forests.



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Issue 8

Significant Plant Species on the Hopi Reservation

Significant Plant Species of the Hopi Reservation
Native Plants
Fourwing saltbush Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt.
Cottonwood Populus L.
Quaking aspen Populus temuloides Michx.
Three-leaf sumac Rhus trilobata
Willow Salix L.
Narrowleaf yucca Yucca angustissima
 
Invasive plants
Russian-olive Elaeagnus angustifolia L.
Saltcedar Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb.

 

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Hopi and Navajo children get hands-on experience growing plants at the Cultural Plant Propagation Center built by the Hopi Tribe at the Moenkopi Day School in Tuba City, AZ, with Forest Service.
Hopi and Navajo children get hands-on experience growing plants at the Cultural Plant Propagation Center built by the Hopi Tribe at the Moenkopi Day School in Tuba City, AZ, with Forest Service.
(Photo by Tom Landis, Forest Service)