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- Library Collection RecordA cost evaluation was conducted of four alternatives for improvements on maturing western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) woodlands. The alternatives were: (a) the use of picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-…Publication Date 1982-07-01
- California
- Juniperus occidentalis
- Library Collection RecordStudy began in 1977 at Blodgett Forest Research Station near Georgetown, California, to look at the effects of cattle and deer grazing on mixed conifer plantations. Cattle graze the study area from…Publication Date 1983-03-01
- California
- grazing
- vegetation management
- Library Collection RecordThe usefulness of a conceptual framework for understanding food selection by ungulates, based on four morphological parameters (body size, type of digestive system, rumino-reticular volume to body…Publication Date 1982-03-01
- California
- Nevada
- Library Collection RecordThe relative habitat preferences of feral hogs (Sus scrofa), black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), and cattle were assessed for 17 habitat types by sampling the distribution and…Publication Date 1982-05-01
- California
- interspecific competition
- irrigated pastures
- Library Collection RecordSoil samples representing six major forest soil series and two meadow unclassified types were collected from 17 locations on critical deer migration routes in the central Sierra Nevada, California.…Publication Date 1982-03-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordRate of herbage decomposition may be related to maintenance and improvement of mountain meadows and may provide a guide to proper use. Weight losses from buried and unburied native herbage and filter…Publication Date 1980-07-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordGrowth rates of southern California grassland species showed significant correlation with rainfall from November 1972 to June 1973. Maximum growth for the species ripgut grass, foxtail chess, wild…Publication Date 1978-11-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordManipulation of natural mulch on nine experimental plots in California annual grassland representing a range of mean annual precipitation from 160 to 16 cm provided information useful for grazing…Publication Date 1980-01-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordThe nematode community structure was examined in grazed and ungrazed annual-plant rangeland on the US/IBP Grassland Biome San Joaquin Site located in the foothill-grasslands of central California.…Publication Date 1979-11-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordChamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) undergoes major structural changes in above-ground biomass along a gradient of increasing stand age since fire. Shrub growth in volume and biomass is rapid through…Publication Date 1979-11-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordImpact of feral burros on native desert vegetation was studied in the Havasu Resource Area, Lower Colorado River Valley, California-Arizona. Browse utilization ranged from heavy to light with…Publication Date 1977-09-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordSixteen years of data were evaluated to determine the influence of annual weather patterns and a brush conversion project on subsequent runoff from an 86.2-ha watershed. Grassy vegetation released 39…Publication Date 1978-01-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordSome aspects of forage production, utilization, and percent cover were studied on Santa Catalina Island from July 1971 through April 1973. Food habits of feral goats (Capra hircus) were examined in…Publication Date 1977-11-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordA strong relationship between precipitation (but not temperature) and standing crop is evident for the dominant species of a southern California grassland. The sub-dominant species showed no…Publication Date 1976-09-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordHeight-weight data were systematically collected to provide a basis for determining utilization for wet mountain meadows occurring on the Summit Allotment of the Sequoia National Forest. Comparison…Publication Date 1976-11-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordDrip irrigation may be an efficient and effective technique for revegetation of steep slopes in an arid environment. Where supplemental irrigation may be necessary for plant establishment, drip…Publication Date 1977-03-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of amount of mulch, nitrogen fertilizer, and clipping frequency was studied on herbage and seed production of annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) seeded on a burned brushland in…Publication Date 1976-05-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordBetween January and March burros spent from 60 to 78.7% of their time on the interfluves. In April, habitat use was predominantly in washes, with a high of 58.5% in July. During the summer months,…Publication Date 1976-11-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordTotal forage yield from 1936 to 1970 and yields of grasses, legumes, and forbs other than legumes for 24 years on the same area of annual rangeland on the San Joaquin Experimental Range in central…Publication Date 1975-07-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordThe responses to fertilization and moisture of several of the principal grass species of the California annual type were measured in a field study in Southern California. Treatment plots were…Publication Date 1976-01-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordSix years following type conversion of a chaparral plot in southern California, density per acre and number of shrub species were reduced by 79.7% and 40%, respectively. Replanting following brush…Publication Date 1974-07-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordThickets of California sagebrush support large populations of small mammals which eliminate grassland vegetation from the vicinity of the shrubs. The effect of the shrubs is density dependent, with…Publication Date 1974-09-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordThe vigor of Idaho fescue in northeastern California was compared on plots grazed by two different approaches: one full 5-year cycle of rest-rotation grazing, at Harvey Valley; and repeated…Publication Date 1974-11-01
- California
- Library Collection RecordA need for improving and updating rodent-control methodology prompted this study of the use of aircraft for baiting destructive populations of ground squirrels. Both spot and strip baiting by air…Publication Date 1968-11-01
- rodent control
- Citellus
- San Luis Obispo County
- Stripping
- aerial methods
- Dispensing
- Ground Squirrel Bait
- aircraft
- Destructive Populations
- Fickert
- Carriso
- Santa Margarita
- Lewis
- Camatta
- Newhall
- Spot Broadcast
- Mice
- Crimped Oat Groats
- Sodium Fluoroacetate
- seed
- foraging
- control
- California
- Library Collection RecordChemical analysis revealed that the principal forage species which comprised more than 95% of the California bighorn winter diet in the Ashnola watershed (British Columbia) contained sufficient crude…Publication Date 1968-11-01
- food habits
- Bighorn
- winter forage
- Ashnola Watershed
- Columbia needlegrass
- Ovis canadensis californiana
- Similkameen River
- bluebunch wheatgrass
- calcium
- fiber
- Fat
- Nitrogen Free Extract
- ash
- winter
- British Columbia
- chemical composition
- phosphorus
- crude protein
- California
- Library Collection RecordAn important, yet overlooked aspect of public land management involves the economic significance to rural areas of grazing and lumber production on federal lands. To illustrate the relative…Publication Date 1969-01-01
- Federal Grazing
- Interindustry Analysis
- Lumber Production
- Mathematical Technique
- Economic Interdependence
- Department of Agricultural Economics
- Oregon State University
- Economic Activity
- Grant County
- Lumber Sector
- Economic Importance
- reduction
- land use
- public lands
- Oregon
- management
- Library Collection RecordIf properly applied, 2,4-D reduces rabbitbrush and forbs and allows grass to increase. This would be a desirable management tool on cattle ranges. The most effective kill of rabbitbrush was obtained…Publication Date 1968-03-01
- Sheep Range
- Tool
- ecological effects
- Long Term
- Lanceleaf Rabbitbrush
- Pole Creek Ranger Station
- Date of Spraying
- Stage of Plant Growth
- Associated Species
- plant communities
- vegetation sampling
- cattle ranges
- effects
- Kill
- responses
- soil moisture
- spraying
- 2,4-D
- Nevada
- statistical analysis
- management
- Library Collection RecordRootplowing and rootplowing combined with rootraking increased the density of pricklypear stands but decreased the density of other undesirable woody species. Chaining resulted in extremely dense…Publication Date 1968-11-01
- Rio Grande Plain
- Herbaceous Forage
- Dragging
- root plowing
- root raking
- Opunita
- pricklypear
- mechanical control
- chaining
- Woody Species
- density
- establishment
- maintenance
- Texas
- grasslands
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe grazing capacity of mountain rangelands can be increased by management practices which improve cattle distribution. In this study, the increased economic returns resulting from pond construction…Publication Date 1968-09-01
- Cattle Distribution Practices
- mountain rangeland
- Pond Construction
- Spring Development
- Trial Construction
- Guzzler Construction
- Drifting
- Trail Construction
- Economic Returns
- Economic Evaluation
- herding
- salting
- grazing capacity
- fencing
- livestock
- water development
- investment
- carrying capacity
- management
- Library Collection RecordLivestock production from native rangelands is the most important agricultural enterprise in the Somali Republic. The ranges of Somalia have a potential for much greater production than is currently…Publication Date 1968-11-01
- Grassland Savannahs
- environment
- native rangelands
- Production Potential
- grazing systems
- range condition
- range resources
- Somalia
- livestock production
- stocking rate
- livestock
- range management
- management
- Library Collection RecordSulfur needs of Spanish clover, Lotus purshianus (Benth.) Clements and Clements, were determined by plant analysis in a nutrient solution study. Top growth was affected more than root growth by…Publication Date 1968-05-01
- Sulfur Needs
- plant analysis
- Diangnosed
- Clements
- Protein Synthesis
- deficiency
- Suflate
- Organic
- 100 ppm
- Visual Symptoms
- Spanish Clover
- Lotus purshianus
- shoots
- nutrient solutions
- plant parts
- magnesium
- nutrients
- calcium
- top growth
- nitrates
- sulfur
- root growth
- plant growth
- legumes
- California
- Library Collection RecordThe national grassland program has produced a number of beneficial changes in both the land and the economy of southwestern Kansas. Through the federal purchase and conversion of marginal farmland to…Publication Date 1968-05-01
- soil erosion
- government
- rehabilitation
- animal unit month
- ponds
- Cimarron National Grassland
- adjustments
- National Grassland Program
- marginal farmland
- runoff water
- Summer Forage
- Multiple Use Management
- Recreational Opportunities
- Natural Resoruces
- Mineral Leases
- Recreational Visits
- Pipeline Easements
- Resource Use
- economy
- land use
- Kansas
- income
- wildlife
- grazing
- land
- conservation
- private lands
- management
- Library Collection RecordIn most fertilization studies on desert grasslands, little attention has been paid to soil moisture conditions at the time of application. Results have been highly variable and fertilization has not…Publication Date 1968-03-01
- fertilizer application
- desert grasslands
- Summer Rainy Season
- management
- Arizona
- yields
- responses
- Time
- black grama
- Santa Rita Experimental Range
- Bouteloua eriopoda
- protein content
- Grass Growth
- Soil Moisture Conditions
- Williams Ranch
- Oven Dry
- Library Collection RecordSpecies commonly used to seed California rangelands were sprayed with varying rates of the alkanolamine salt of 2,4-D at a number of vegetative growth stages in two different years. Subclover,…Publication Date 1968-07-01
- Agronomy Farm
- subterraneum
- hirtum
- Davis
- Rosette Stage
- Seedling Failure
- tolerance
- stenoptera
- growth stages
- Phalaris tuberosa
- Subclover
- orchardgrass
- Weed Competition
- Trifolium
- Rose Clover
- Harding grass
- damage
- range improvement
- 2,4-D
- California
- Library Collection RecordSpraying of an old stand of chaparral with herbicides was shown to increase range-carrying capacity 37% by the end of the third year. Control of Ceanothus spp., Salvia leucophylla and Adenostoma…Publication Date 1967-05-01
- Old Stand
- Salvia leucophylla
- Adenostoma fasciculatum
- Ceanothus
- returns
- range productivity
- costs
- chaparral
- 2,4,5-T
- increases
- forage production
- chemical control
- spraying
- herbicides
- 2,4-D
- brush control
- California
- carrying capacity
- Library Collection RecordGood correlations have been reported between precipitation and herbage production, and between precipitation and radial increment of growth rings in trees and shrubs. Because herbage production and…Publication Date 1967-01-01
- Range Herbage Production
- Annual Rings
- Radial Increment
- growth rings
- estimation
- woody plants
- correlation coefficients
- correlation
- herbage production
- precipitation
- Idaho
- Oregon
- California
- Montana
- Utah
- New Mexico
- Library Collection RecordMany factors affect the utilization of mountain terrain by cattle and these factors are interrelated and exert their influence in a complicated manner. Actual use obtained under good management is…Publication Date 1966-07-01
- vegetation cover
- mountain slopes
- Actual Use
- Percent Slope
- Palatable Plants
- Brush Thickness
- Range Survey
- Degree of Use
- topography
- salt
- utilization
- water
- terrain
- cattle
- Location
- Utah
- management
- Library Collection RecordNitrogen plus sulfur increased production of cheatgrass in 9 of 11 years studied. However, fertilization was not a dependable means of producing additional forage in dry years. This material was…Publication Date 1966-07-01
- Dry
- Alturas
- Single
- Repeated
- forage yield
- Mustard
- Wasted Feed
- ranges
- applications
- botanical composition
- cheatgrass
- sulfur
- Bromus tectorum
- production
- nitrogen
- fertilization
- drought
- California
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1966-11-01
- natural pasture
- 19th Annual Meeting
- New Orleans
- Society for Range Management
- Worldwide
- Annual Meeting
- Introduction
- FAO
- livestock production
- range management
- management
- Library Collection RecordApplication of N increased the percentage grass and depressed annual legumes. Subterranean clover not N fertilized was very competitive with grass when the sward was grazed or mowed. The…Publication Date 1967-01-01
- Fertilized Grasslands
- Unmowed
- Subterranean Clover
- ungrazed
- protein content
- Hopland Field Station
- Trifolium subterraneum
- annual legumes
- botanical composition
- grazing
- growth
- dry seasons
- nitrogen
- California
- mowing
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1966-11-01
- Jordan
- food production
- Technical Assistance
- legislation
- agricultural development
- World Hunger
- Agricultural Institutions
- administration
- Public Policies
- international cooperation
- India
- Brazil
- education
- training
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe objective was to study the use of various grass species, two liming materials, and phosphorus as means of improving very acid, unproductive, grassland soils. Phosphorus applications increased…Publication Date 1967-03-01
- Acid Soils
- Mineral Composition
- Liming Materials
- Calcic Limes
- Magnesium Limes
- Veldtgrass
- Unproductive Soils
- Wilder Vagrant Series
- Sixmile Series
- grass species
- calcium
- phosphorus
- yield
- yields
- pH
- California
- grasslands
- Library Collection RecordFrequent removal of herbage from hardinggrass plants during the most active period of growth resulted in reduced yields and an increase in plant death. Intensive clipping also appeared to reduce the…Publication Date 1966-03-01
- carbohydrate reserves
- Plant Death
- Sugar Percent
- Fructosan
- San Diego County
- Tule Springs Range
- Environmental Stress
- growth periods
- stenoptera
- defoliation
- Phalaris tuberosa
- Herbage Removal
- grazing management
- Harding grass
- clipping
- survival
- storage
- productivity
- yield
- mortality
- rainfall
- California
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1951-05-01
- East Texas
- Piney Woods
- Free Range
- cattle production
- reforestation
- Pasture Development
- forest range
- bluestems
- beef cattle
- grazing capacity
- forage plants
- nutritive value
- Andropogon
- Timber Production
- range
- forage production
- range improvement
- grazing
- cattle
- Louisiana
- grasses
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1951-05-01
- California Agricultural Extension Service
- Milton D. Miller
- What We Know About Brushland Management in California
- Land Administrators
- brush cover
- brushlands
- soil erosion
- landowners
- controlled burning
- moisture
- forage production
- range improvement
- runoff
- California
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1949-07-01
- Quantitative Ecology
- Ecologic Principles
- Quantitative System
- New Grouping
- Sampson
- climax vegetation
- rangelands
- Floristic Composition
- technicians
- range plants
- conditions
- qualitative
- classification
- forage production
- range condition
- management
- stocking rate
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1951-05-01
- Range Condition Classes
- soil conditions
- Southwestern Alberta
- Soil Protection
- Soil Depletion
- mountain range
- forbs
- plant vigor
- vegetative composition
- bunchgrass
- plant density
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1950-07-01
- Panhandle
- Deferred Range
- Range Composition
- Hospital Bunch
- stockmen
- calf crops
- Flexible
- Fence
- cows
- returns
- western wheatgrass
- steers
- selection
- livestock
- overstocking
- calves
- winter
- Sideoats grama
- disease
- little bluestem
- evaporation
- water
- quality
- production
- Oklahoma
- conservation
- drought
- runoff
- ranching
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1951-01-01
- Orange Sneezeweed
- Helenium hoopesii
- Borax
- Sodium Chlorate
- Pure Acid
- Amines
- Uncompahgre Forest
- Grand Mesa Forest
- Colorado
- grubbing
- Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
- Salts
- herbicides
- sheep
- cattle
- overgrazing
- grasses
- 2,4-D
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis 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…Publication Date 1949-10-01
- Interstate Winter Deer Range
- Rocky Mountain Mule Deer
- Fremont National Forest
- Modoc National Forest
- Adjusting Stocking
- forage species
- Forage Studies
- forage utilization
- Odocoileus hemionus
- plots
- ground cover
- deer
- Stocking
- composition
- livestock
- California