This study is a quantitative description of the response of vegetation from 1973 to 1983 on the Goldbanks and Pueblo Mountain cattle allotments in northern Nevada managed under a 3-year pasture rest-rotation grazing system. Forage use was heavy in all years and averaged 65% in June, 75% in July and August, and 80% in October. Few long-term changes in vegetation frequency and cover were observed. Perennial forbs did increase on a number of sites. Increases in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) indicate a slow downward trend in vegetation where Thurber needlegrass (Stipa thurberiana) or bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron spicatum) is the potential dominant graminoid.
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