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- Library Collection RecordInfiltration rate and sediment production were measured over a 2-year period on an intensive rotationally grazed pasture. Measurements were taken prior to the movement of livestock onto the pasture,…Publication Date 1986-11-01
- intensive livestock farming
- hydrology
- sediments
- pastures
- rotational grazing
- sheep
- goats
- cattle
- Texas
- seasonal variation
- rangelands
- grazing
- infiltration
- Library Collection RecordWe compared effects of short-duration and continuous grazing on nesting cover and success of bobwhites and wild turkeys in south Texas during 1984. Coverage, density, and dispersion of suitable nest…Publication Date 1986-05-01
- colinus vulgaris
- nesting
- grazing time
- turkeys
- nests
- game management
- pastures
- Texas
- livestock
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordSelection of appropriate treatment and experiment designs are essential elements in research. However, the expense and variability associated with pasture renovation studies creates unique problems…Publication Date 1986-05-01
- research
- land improvements
- grassland improvement
- experimental design
- grazing experiments
- statistical analysis
- pastures
- range management
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordImproved pastures are a valuable forage resource in the Central Great Plains, but ranchers need to know which seeding techniques provide the best chance of successful establishment of such pastures.…Publication Date 1986-05-01
- row orientation
- Fabaceae
- sowing date
- Hordeum vulgare
- crop establishment
- fallow
- forage crops
- Plains
- autumn
- grassland improvement
- stubble
- pastures
- spring
- Wyoming
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordAnnual application of picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid) and picloram plus 2,4-D [(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid] and biannual application of 2,4-D for 5 consecutive years…Publication Date 1987-05-01
- herbicide rates
- herbicide residues
- 2,4-D
- Euphorbia esula
- seedling emergence
- weed control
- pastures
- picloram
- prairies
- North Dakota
- Library Collection RecordGrazing sheep on improved pastures during winter offers an economically attractive alternative to supplementation in sage-brush steppe ecosystems. We studied diet selection and nutrition of sheep…Publication Date 1986-11-01
- Agropyron desertorum
- steppes
- grazing experiments
- pastures
- winter
- woody plants
- animal nutrition
- digestibility
- sheep
- range management
- rangelands
- Utah
- grazing
- feed intake
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordEffects of defoliation frequency and intensity on persistence of a perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne)-subclover (Trifolium subterraneum) pasture were studied near Corvallis, Ore., during 1980 to…Publication Date 1987-05-01
- Trifolium subterraneum
- Lolium perenne
- persistence
- pastures
- Oregon
- botanical composition
- defoliation
- canopy
- Library Collection RecordSoil bulk density measurements were taken from pastures used for winter feeding to determine the effects of different stocking rates on soil compaction and recovery. Samples were taken from paired…Publication Date 1987-01-01
- animal feeding
- physicochemical properties
- soil density
- reclamation
- pastures
- soil water content
- cattle
- rangelands
- soil compaction
- bulk density
- trampling
- Library Collection RecordInfiltration rate and sediment production were measured for 2 years on 3 pastures from an intensive rotational grazing system. The pastures were 32, 24, and 16 ha in size. Stocking rate was held…Publication Date 1986-11-01
- soil water relations
- hydrology
- sediments
- stocking rate
- pastures
- rotational grazing
- sheep
- goats
- cattle
- Texas
- grazing
- infiltration
- Library Collection RecordThe dry-weight-rank (DWR) method for determining species composition of tallgrass prairie vegetation was compared to hand clipping. Species composition estimates for the 2 methods were similar in 3…Publication Date 1986-05-01
- vegetation sampling
- species
- vegetation
- sampling
- Oklahoma
- prairies
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- dry matter
- Library Collection RecordFunding limitations often restrict pasture replication in grazing research on rangeland. Consequently, subsample error has been used to estimate treatment effects or characterize populations.…Publication Date 1986-05-01
- research
- experimental design
- grazing experiments
- pastures
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordSome high-elevation summer ranges in southwestern Utah are characterized by a dominance of grass and low-value forbs. A reference area of forb dominance provides a striking contrast to these grass…Publication Date 1986-09-01
- long term experiments
- regenerative ability
- vegetation
- mountain grasslands
- sheep
- Utah
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordLive and standing dead biomass, standing crop, and total nitrogen, within each component, were measured in a big sacaton (Sporobolus wrightii Monro) grassland in southeastern Arizona for 3 years to…Publication Date 1985-05-01
- Sporobolus wrightii
- Sporobolus
- soil
- biomass determination
- grasslands
- vegetation
- nitrogen content
- Texas
- grazing
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordLegumes are beneficial in providing high quality forage and enhancing fertility levels in the soil by biological nitrogen fixation. Nonperennial Medicago species have a world-wide distribution and…Publication Date 1986-01-01
- resowing
- Medicago
- legumes
- pastures
- establishment
- range management
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordNimble will (Muhlenbergia schreberi Gmel.), a native perennial C4 grass, is a serious weed in horse pastures in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. This study investigated the dormancy breaking and…Publication Date 1985-11-01
- cold
- Muhlenbergia schreberi
- incubation
- Kentucky
- storage
- dormancy breaking
- weed control
- pastures
- seed germination
- Library Collection RecordSoil acidity resulting from nitrification of ammonium in fertilizer can limit plant growth. In this study on weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees) and Caucasian bluestem (Bothriochloa…Publication Date 1986-03-01
- soil pH
- fertilizer application
- sandy soils
- lime
- Southern Great Plains
- phytotoxicity
- nitrogen fertilizers
- pastures
- Oklahoma
- Poaceae
- Library Collection RecordThe reduction in extent of riparian forests in the southwestern United States has been a topic of recent concern. The effect of dams on downstream river flow and the consequent modification of the…Publication Date 1985-03-01
- water conservation
- Populus fremontii
- Populus
- riparian forests
- vegetation
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordChanges in botanical composition and productivity of total herbage and 14 categories of annual range plants caused by elemental sulfur fertilization, range site, and precipitation were studied. Total…Publication Date 1985-03-01
- sulfur fertilizers
- grasslands
- productivity
- pastures
- California
- botanical composition
- Library Collection RecordThe total cost (fee and non-fee) of grazing BLM, FS, and private deeded rangeland was estimated by partial budgeting procedures from records kept by the Saval Ranch, a northeastern Nevada cow-calf…Publication Date 1986-01-01
- public ownership
- private ownership
- foraging
- ranching
- cost-benefit analysis
- pastures
- cattle
- Nevada
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordTerminal infiltration rates under sagebrush canopies were about 35% higher than interspace areas at 3 study sites in northern New Mexico. Differences in infiltration rates among strata may largely be…Publication Date 1986-03-01
- deserts
- sediments
- ground cover
- tebuthiuron
- brush control
- chemical control
- runoff
- vegetation
- Artemisia tridentata
- rangelands
- canopy
- infiltration
- New Mexico
- soil texture
- Library Collection RecordNest site selection of the mountain plover (Charadrius montanus) was studied on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, during 1982. Vegetative characteristics of 26 nest sites, all…Publication Date 1985-05-01
- Charadriidae
- charadrius montanus
- charles m. russell national wildlife refuge, montana
- wildlife
- habitats
- vegetation
- Montana
- Library Collection RecordExpressing the effects of grazing animals on herbage requires explicitly defined variables describing herbage growth and herbage disappearance, as well as variables describing net changes in herbage…Publication Date 1986-01-01
- mathematics and statistics
- growth analysis
- regeneration
- biomass determination
- vegetation
- livestock
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordMuch of the farmland in the Canadian Prairie region has been abandoned over the years and allowed to revert to weedy cover and eventually to grassland. While some of the changes in vegetation during…Publication Date 1985-11-01
- agricultural land
- abandoned land
- soil organic matter
- grasslands
- reclamation
- ecological succession
- Saskatchewan
- Alberta
- vegetation
- semiarid zones
- land restoration
- soil chemistry
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordNumerous warm-season pastures have been established in the last 30 years in the central Great Plains. Some of these pastures are old enough to verify that they can be abused by overgrazing as easily…Publication Date 1986-01-01
- artificial regeneration
- Bromus inermis
- atrazine
- seed dispersal
- Poa pratensis
- weed control
- pastures
- Nebraska
- Poaceae
- overgrazing
- prairies
- range management
- plant competition
- Library Collection RecordFresh cattle manure was collected weekly from 3 cool-season riparian pastures in southeastern South Dakota during the summer of 1981 to determine the relationship of diet of livestock to manure…Publication Date 1985-05-01
- moisture content
- cattle manure
- South Dakota
- pastures
- in vitro digestibility
- nitrogen content
- seasonal variation
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of grazing management systems on plant communities in the Great Basin are largely unknown. This study is a quantitative description of the response of vegetation from 1973 to 1983 on the…Publication Date 1986-03-01
- dominant species
- responses
- ecological succession
- vegetation
- rotational grazing
- plant communities
- range management
- botanical composition
- Nevada
- rangelands
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordIn the central Great Plains, pastures and rangelands often are not economically competitive with grain crops. This has led to increases in acreages of row crops at the expense of rangelands, pastures…Publication Date 1985-09-01
- marginal land
- Great Plains states of USA
- economic viability
- yield increases
- forage crops
- soil erosion
- agricultural research
- pastures
- crop yield
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordLarge ares (6 million ha) of the United States and Canada, classified as range, have an enormous impact on the economy and environment through grass production. Production is often drastically…Publication Date 1984-07-01
- pest resistance
- Hemiptera
- pastures
- Library Collection RecordThe botanical composition of the diets of 5 esophageal-fistulated steers in summer (June to August) and winter (January to March) on a south Florida range was studied in order to point out those…Publication Date 1984-07-01
- forage crops
- Florida
- pastures
- diets
- cattle
- botanical composition
- grazing
- 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 1984-09-01
- climax communities
- classification
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordBotanical composition of Spanish goat diets was only different when diets selected from tebuthiuron-treated pastures were compared to those from untreated and mechanically treated areas in the Texas…Publication Date 1984-11-01
- diets
- Dietary Selection
- Spanish Goats
- Mechanically Treated
- Browse Component
- IVDOM
- College Station
- brush management
- organic matter
- winter
- treatments
- fall
- summer
- botanical composition
- digestibility
- crude protein
- nutrition
- spring
- pastures
- tebuthiuron
- Texas
- Library Collection RecordRange managers must often estimate or predict annual forage yield at a distance, from minimal data, or for a variety of sites. This study compared and modified 6 simple formulas potentially useful…Publication Date 1984-09-01
- yield forecasting
- data collection
- forage crops
- dry matter accumulation
- pastures
- Library Collection RecordBasal cover and standing crop of herbaceous vegetation were measured during 1979 and 1980 at 0.3-m intervals along transects radiating from individual lotebush canopies in each cardinal direction.…Publication Date 1984-07-01
- Ziziphus
- vegetation
- Texas
- 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 1984-09-01
- Peromyscus
- reclaimed land
- vegetation
- herbivores
- Wyoming
- Library Collection RecordAbused rangelands dominated by introduced cool-season grasses and warm-season shortgrasses are common over much of the Mixed Prairie. Native decreaser species are primarily warm-season grasses and…Publication Date 1985-01-01
- pastures
- Nebraska
- prescribed burning
- vegetation
- prairies
- Library Collection RecordAnnual and perennial plant vegetation was sampled following a controlled burn (1981) and a wildfire (1980) in the Upper Sonoran Desert near Phoenix, Ariz. Perennial plant composition 1 year after…Publication Date 1984-11-01
- Upper Sonoran Desert
- Controlled Burn
- Shoot Surviviers
- Sprouters
- seeders
- Brittle Brush
- Encelia farinosa
- Invader Species
- Stickweed
- Stephanomeria exigua
- Four O'Clock
- Mirabilis bigelovii
- Bulldog Canyon
- herbaceous plants
- Woody Perennials
- vegetation responses
- Cacti
- Short Term
- annuals
- plant composition
- wildfire
- fire
- perennials
- vegetation
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordSmall mammal populations were sampled annually over 4 years in native plant communities and improved rangeland types. All species of rodents were relatively less abundant where western wheatgrass was…Publication Date 1984-07-01
- rodents
- vegetation
- wildlife management
- rangelands
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this study was to evaluate vegetation, soils, infiltration rates, and sediment production as they relate to livestock exclusion, continuous heavy grazing, continuous moderate grazing,…Publication Date 1984-11-01
- bare ground
- hydrologic response
- Fort Stanton
- Livestock Exclusion
- Continuous Heavy Grazing
- Continuous Moderate Grazing
- Fort Stanton Experimental Range
- foliar cover
- standing biomass
- microrelief
- infiltration rates
- sediment production
- litter cover
- Rotation Grazing
- organic matter
- grazing management
- soil
- vegetation
- New Mexico
- Library Collection RecordIn this study we investigated the variability of infiltration on native rangeland sites. A rainfall simulator was used to collect data on runoff from small (0.37 m2) plots located within large plot…Publication Date 1984-11-01
- Boise
- organic matter
- watersheds
- rainfall simulators
- Large Runoff Plots
- Unfenced
- Fenced
- Rototilling
- Antecedent Moisture
- hydrologic response
- Variability Patterns
- confidence intervals
- Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed
- Plot Preparation
- variability
- soil texture
- rangelands
- infiltration
- bulk density
- vegetation
- Idaho
- vegetal cover
- Library Collection RecordThe influence of cattle grazing on selected vegetation and soil parameters were evaluated on a clay flat range site with shrub zonal, midgrass, and shortgrass communities in the Rolling Plains near…Publication Date 1984-07-01
- Plains
- soil
- pastures
- vegetation
- cattle
- Texas
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordTwelve permanent vegetation sampling plots were established on Greatheart and Church mesas in Zion National Park, Utah. Both relict mesas are surrounded by cliffs but contain the same variety of soil…Publication Date 1984-09-01
- forest trees
- natural resource management
- national parks
- vegetation
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordIndices of vegetation abundance, composition, and grazing were monitored for the grazing seasons of 1980-81 at Hays, Kans., in 2 pastures. One pasture was moderately grazed with yearling steers…Publication Date 1985-01-01
- strip grazing
- Buchloe dactyloides
- Kansas
- pastures
- vegetation
- Pascopyrum smithii
- Bouteloua gracilis
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordRange trend is one of the basic components of rangeland inventories. Understanding the interactions between soil, climatic factors, and vegetation aids the range manager in determining and predicting…Publication Date 1983-05-01
- Arizona
- soil
- climatic factors
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordExperimentors have been using cost-efficient systematically located transects in the line intercept method for some time with little support from mathematical statistics. In this paper, it is shown…Publication Date 1983-07-01
- vegetation
- forest floor
- Library Collection RecordThe concept of range condition is reanalysed in terms of the nature of changes in land and vegetation and the purpose of measurement. A new framework is outlined which presents range condition as an…Publication Date 1982-11-01
- animals
- Ammenity
- shrub encroachment
- biomass
- concepts
- ecology
- quantity
- water yield
- soil
- Factors
- measurements
- productivity
- classification
- composition
- range condition
- land
- vegetation
- frequency
- cover
- erosion
- soil stability
- Value
- Library Collection RecordConfusion exists over the proper statistical methodology to use in analyzing the effect of treatments on changes in botanical composition over time. A rationale for using multivariate statistics is…Publication Date 1983-03-01
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordA honey mesquite drainage habitat (20% of a 1,215-ha study pasture) was aerially sprayed with 1.1 kg/ha of 2,4,5-T + picloram in the spring. Adjacent habitats (blackbrush acacia uplands, creeping…Publication Date 1982-11-01
- honey mesquite
- aerial spraying
- herbicide treatments
- Mesquite Drainage
- Fecal Accumulation
- Camaron Ranch
- responses
- picloram
- white-tailed deer
- utilization
- vegetation
- Texas
- Library Collection RecordDeferred-rotation grazing of Kansas Flint Hills' range grazed by steers May 1 to October 1 was compared to season-long stocking from 1950 through 1966. Deferred-rotation pastures had higher…Publication Date 1973-11-01
- season-long stocking
- depleted range
- cow-calf operations
- deferred rotation grazing
- range utilization
- animal performance
- steers
- grazing management
- Gains
- Kansas
- Flint Hills
- forage production
- range improvement
- pastures
- stocking rate
- range condition
- Library Collection RecordFollowing intensive study of soils and plant communities in the Princeton area of southern British Columbia, it became apparent that photo interpretation techniques could be used to greater advantage…Publication Date 1969-01-01
- Units
- Bedrock
- aerial photos
- Princeton
- Field Mapping Guides
- Physiographic
- chernozemic soils
- Tone
- Surficial Deposits
- Micro Features
- Soils Survey
- Vegeatative Zones
- plant communities
- patterns
- drainage
- topography
- interpretation
- surveys
- texture
- soil
- British Columbia
- land use
- rangelands
- classification
- relationships
- soils
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordForbs consumed by cattle grazing native range had higher dry matter digestion coefficients and contained greater quantities of ash, calcium, phosphorus, crude protein, and total sugars, but contained…Publication Date 1968-01-01
- Sugars
- in vitro digestibility
- Phophorous
- Use Competition
- Scotts Bluff Experimental Range
- Bracted spiderwort
- Beggars Lice
- Skeletonplant
- Yucca Heads
- Sand Sage
- Alfalfa Standard
- Lambsquarters
- Sunflower Heads
- nutrients
- Digestion Coefficients
- calcium
- ash
- native ranges
- consumption
- dry matter
- chemical composition
- esophageal fistula
- crude protein
- grazing
- cattle
- vegetation
- forbs
- Nebraska
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