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Water Quality Implications of Cattle Grazing on a Semiarid Watershed in Southeastern Utah
Author
Buckhouse, J. C.
Gifford, G. F.
Publisher
Society for Range Management
Publication Year
1976-03-01
Body

During 1973 and 1974 wildland water quality analyses were performed on a semiarid, chained and seeded, pinyon-juniper site in southeastern Utah. The area was treated in 1967 and protected from grazing until 1974. In 1974 livestock grazing was introduced and investigations continued to determine if any deleterious land use effects were present from fecal contamination by cattle. No significant changes were noted in fecal and total coliform production (fecal pollution bacterial indicators) from grazing use. There is an element of risk involved whenever data generated from a small area are projected to larger land areas. However, it appears that this level of livestock grazing (2 ha/AUM) did not constitute a public health hazard in terms of fecal pollution indicators on the semiarid watershed. 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)
10.2307/3897404
Additional Information
Buckhouse, J. C., & Gifford, G. F. (1976). Water quality implications of cattle grazing on a semiarid watershed in southeastern Utah. Journal of Range Management, 29(2), 109-113.
ISSN
0022-409X
OAI Identifier
oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/647059
Journal Volume
29
Journal Number
2
Journal Pages
109-113
Collection
Rangeland Ecology & Management (REM)
Journal Name
Journal of Range Management
Keywords
Utah