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Bitterbrush Seed Collecting—By Machine or By Hand?
Author
Nord, E. C.
Schneegas, E. R.
Graham, H.
Publisher
Society for Range Management
Publication Year
1967-03-01
Body

Three methods of harvesting bitterbrush seed that yielded about 5,000 lb clean seed in 1963 were used by the Inyo National Forest. The most economical method of collecting the seed was by Forest Service crews collecting by hand; the most costly was by an experimental browse seed harvester; purchase from private seed collectors was intermediate in cost, but compared favorably with Forest Service crew hand collections. Cost ranged from $47,100 lb clean seed for certain hand collections up to $424 for some machine collections. This material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from OJS platform August 2020

Language
en
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Journal Issue/Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.2307/3895955
Additional Information
Nord, E. C., Schneegas, E. R., & Graham, H. (1967). Bitterbrush seed collecting—by machine or by hand?. Journal of Range Management, 20(2), 99-103.
ISSN
0022-409X
OAI Identifier
oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/647898
Journal Volume
20
Journal Number
2
Journal Pages
99-103
Collection
Rangeland Ecology & Management (REM)
Journal Name
Journal of Range Management
Keywords
harvesting
Purchase
fruit
Hand
machines
Seed Collecting
Inyo National Forest
Mechanical Collection
Hand Collection
cleaning
Manpower
cost
private
Purshia tridentata
bitterbrush
Great Basin
Forest Service