Water-Resources Investigations Report 01-4234

Estimates of Evapotranspiration from the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge Area, Ruby Valley, Northeastern Nevada, May 1999-October 2000

Figure 7. Typical mixed phreatophytic-shrub habitats of saltgrass (Distichlis stricta), rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus), basin wildrye (Elymus cinereus), greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), and big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentada spp. tridentada) in Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Nevada: (A) Phreatophyte-1 site, depth to water 5 feet; and (B) phreatophyte-5 site, depth to water about 17 feet.

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