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Some responses of riparian soils to grazing management in northeastern Oregon
Author
Bohn, C. C., J. C. Buckhouse
Publication Year
1969
Body

The effects of 4 grazing treatments (rest-rotation, deferred-rotation, season-long, and no grazing) on riparian soil infiltration, bulk density, and penetrability were examined in a study located on the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range about 48 km west of La Grande, Oregon. Rest-rotation pastures followed a pattern of rest, grazing late June-mid-August, grazing season-long, grazing mid-August-mid-October. Deferred rotation pastures were grazed alternate years, late June-mid-August and mid-August-mid-October. Season-long grazing lasted from late June-mid-October. Short-duration, high-intensity, deferred-rotation grazing was tested in September and October. All soil measurements were made in the early summer of 1980, late summer 1980, and early summer 1981.

Language
en
Keywords
infiltration
grazing
riparian zones
Oregon
grazing systems
bulk density
penetrometer penetrability
riparian soils
sediment production
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