The 20,000-acre Stoner Mesa roadless area encompasses perhaps the highest quality roadless aspen ecosystem types in the entire San Juan Mountains. The area's designation as wilderness would greatly relieve the absence of aspen ecosystem types among designated wilderness. Stoner Mesa is unique among San Juan wilderness candidates in its extensive, unbroken expanses of pure aspen forest and exhibits astonishing diversity among aspen forest types. The area's elevation range between 8,000 and 9,500 feet would place it among the lowest elevation wildernesses on the forest, and one of the lowest forested wilderness areas in all of Colorado.
Stoner Mesa's forests consist of climax aspen.
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idates in its extensive, unbroken expanses of pure aspen forest and exhibits astonishing diversity among aspen forest types. The area's elevation range between 8,000 and 9,500 feet would place it among the lowest elevation wildernesses on the forest, and one of the lowest forested wilderness areas in all of Colorado.