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 *****SWAAG_ID***** 345
 Date Entered 22/11/2011
 Updated on 05/12/2011
 Recorded by Tim Laurie
 Category Tree Site Record
 Record Type Botanical HER
 Site Access Public Access Land
 Record Date 18/07/2011
 Location Hoods Bottom Beck. Graining Scar. Lower Falls.
 Civil Parish Muker
 Brit. National Grid NY 8655 0473
 Altitude 475m
 Geology Waterfall ravine. Sandstones and under cut mudstones with calcareous springs at stream level
 Record Name MUK125. Whitsundale, Hoods Bottom Beck. Graining Scars Lower Fall. Isolated junipers.
 Record Description Aspen clones and sallows on cliff by the Falls. Four juniper bushes on low cliff below the Falls.Site Type B Generally acidic vegetation but with local enrichment at tufa springs.
 Dimensions See photographs.
 Geographical area Upper Swaledale
 Species Aspen and juniper
 Common / Notable Species Sallow.
 Additional Notes Of the four junipers, one is long dead, two very recently dead (with browned foliage) and one is alive. Vegetation not yet recorded.
 Image 1 ID 1356         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description Lower Fall with aspen and sallow.
 Image 2 ID 880         Click image to enlarge
 Image 2 Description Lower Fall
 Image 3 ID 881         Click image to enlarge
 Image 3 Description Lower Fall
 Image 4 ID 1358         Click image to enlarge
 Image 4 Description Lower Fall
 Image 5 ID 1357         Click image to enlarge
 Image 5 Description Lower Fall
 Image 6 ID 1349         Click image to enlarge
 Image 6 Description 
 Image 7 ID 1355         Click image to enlarge
 Image 7 Description Junipers, four in total. One long dead, two recently dead and one alive.
 Image 8 ID 1356         Click image to enlarge
 Image 8 Description Junipers,four on this low cliff but just one alive now.
 Image 9 ID 1353         Click image to enlarge
 Image 9 Description 
 Image 10 ID 1354         Click image to enlarge
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