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- Library Collection RecordThese Lands is a quarterly podcast of the Northwest Climate Hub focused on creative and engaging delivery of regionally relevant climate change adaptation information. We dig into pressing regional…Publication Date 2021
- Library Collection RecordThe Art of Range podcast provides education through conversation with some of the brightest minds in rangeland management. We interview researchers, ranchers, and resource professionals to bring you…Publication Date 2018
- sciences
- rangelands
- podcast
- art
- conservation
- conversation
- Library Collection RecordLearn about Wyoming's wild horse population and management issues with keeping the population at a level where horses and livestock can survive. To learn more, visit the Wyoming Rangelands page…Publication Date 2017
- horses
- wild burros
- wild horses
- Library Collection RecordThe Carson National Forest's Wild horse adoption program, focusing on the Forest Service’s efforts to preserve wild horses in the west.Publication Date 2017
- horses
- wild burros
- wild horses
- Library Collection Record
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The Carson National Forest’s Wild Horse Adoption Program focuses on the unique benefits of adopting a wild horse.Publication Date 2017- horses
- wild burros
- wild horses
- Library Collection RecordNative Americans used fire to manage rangeland for thousands of years, but a 100-year burning hiatus followed settlement by Europeans of the North American heartland. Those decades of fire…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordThis week on Playa Country, prescribed burning. Oklahoma State University's Dept. of Natural Resource Ecology & Management is researching effects of limited prescribed burning or "patch…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordBiologist Peter Berthelson of Pheasants Forever took action to educate land managers how to burn and created burn trailers stocked with all the hardware required to safely conduct prescribed burns.…Publication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordLearn about invasive in the heartlandPublication Date 2014
- Library Collection RecordDiscusses the effects of delisting wolves as an endangered species in Montana from the perspective of ranchers and hunters aiming to preserve livestock and elk numbers and wolf watchers and community…Publication Date 2013
- Montana
- Rocky Mountains
- wildlife management
- Wolf management
- wolf reintroduction
- Yellowstone National Park
- Yellowstone Wolf Project
- Library Collection RecordSoil and water conservation is the keystone to sustainable livestock grazing and maintenance of native species on our western rangelands. Good rangeland management requires the ability to assess…Publication Date 2010
- Library Collection RecordRanchers on the plains of Eastern New Mexico work to restore depleted rangeland and adopt strategies to sustain valuable grassland resources for future generations. Ranchers demonstrate, first hand,…Publication Date 2008
- Library Collection Record  The K-State Research and Extension Forage Task Force surveyed Kansas rangelands during the course of seasonal changes to enable producers and managers to better estimate the feed value of their…Publication Date 2002
- Kansas
- Library Collection RecordThe response to a sulfur (S) application of 28.5 pounds per acre in combination with 25, 50, and 75 pounds per acre (28, 56, 84 kg/ha) nitrogen (N) applied annually to an established stand of Nordan…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron ssp.
- North America
- Library Collection RecordCrested wheatgrass (Agropyron desertorum, Agde "Standard," A. cristatum, Ager "Fairway") have has great impact on western North America rangeland habitats of mule deer (Odocoileus…Publication Date 1986
- mule deer
- Pronghorn Antelope
- western North America
- Library Collection RecordWhen degraded sagebrush communities are converted to grasslands to improve forage production for livestock, impacts on nongame birds occur. Removal of sagebrush results in displacement of the shrub-…Publication Date 1986
- sagebrush
- North America
- perennial grass
- Library Collection RecordDespite the widespread success of crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum and A. desertorum) as a seeded species for rangeland improvement and rehabilitation, the scophysiology of the plant has…Publication Date 1986
- grazing tolerance
- North America
- Photosynthetic capacity
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reviews the literature on factors affecting the yield and nutritional value of crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum, A. desertorum or A. fragile). The Agropyrons are cool-season…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron fragile
- North America
- Library Collection RecordCrested wheatgrass has been remarkably successful in fulfilling its purpose of providing productive, nutritious livestock forage during the spring. Livestock production per acre has been increased…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- North America
- Library Collection RecordUtilization of crested wheatgrass on a plant-by plant basis was studied using heifers for a six-week grazing period on foothill rangeland in Utah seeded almost 30 years previously. The cattle…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron smithii
- Artemisia tridentata
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThis paper outlines and describes research conducted at Utah State University on the optimum length of time before invading brush and timber species should  be removed from established crested…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this paper is to investigate an optimization procedure for estimating the intensity of overstory reduction when the biological goal is to increase forage production and the economic…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron cristatum
- Artemisia tridentata
- Pinus edulis
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this paper are to define as a case study the economics of crested wheatgrass seedings when grazed under traditional spring/fall grazing patterns, and to contrast this with seeding…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron desertorum
- Medicago sativa
- Melilotus officinalis
- North America
- Library Collection RecordVarious types of range improvements such as seeding of crested wheatgrass were extensively used during the period 1955-1970. Since 1970 the number of improvements implemented has declined…Publication Date 1986
- North America
- Library Collection RecordRangelands of the western United States are subjected to a variety of drastic disturbances which necessitate reclamation for impact mitigation. Crested wheatgrass may play an important role in the…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe social values of crested wheatgrass are based on the biological characteristics that make it perhaps the most valuable plant available for range vegetation. Negative social aspects of crested…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- Elymus lanceolatus
- North America
- Psathyrostachys juncea
- Library Collection RecordLarge areas of sagebrush-grass rangelands are brush dominated and are producing 50 percent or less of their forage potential. Conversion of these rangelands to crested wheatgrass for increased forage…Publication Date 1986
- crested wheatgrass
- herbicides
- sagebrush
- North America
- Library Collection RecordTo feed or not to feed... Winters in the Intermountain West are often long and severe, and present real problems to most livestock ranchers. Both operating costs and livestock losses during this…Publication Date 1986
- sagebrush
- Intermountain West
- North America
- Library Collection RecordAfter three days of many fine papers examining crested wheatgrass from every angle, it would seem there is little left to say on the subject. However, my task is to summarize the papers and speculate…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron cristatum
- North America
- Library Collection RecordUngrazed crested wheatgrass seedings may intercept from 7 to 22 percent of the annual precipitation. Infiltration rates following seeding are not particularly impacted on coarse-textured soils…Publication Date 1986
- precipitation
- pinyon
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThis paper opens the symposium with a description of the biological and economic importance of crested wheatgrass.Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Intermountain West
- North America
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordKeynote address for the Crested Wheatgrass Symposium, October 3-7, 1983 in Logan, Utah.Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum)
- Intermountain West
- North America
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordThe first introductions of crested wheatgrass [Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn., A. desertorum (Fisch.) Schult., and related taxa] to North America were made by N. E. Hansen in 1898. Additional…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- drought
- Arid climate
- semiarid climate
- Canada
- North America
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe improvement of degraded sagebrush (Artemisia) rangelands in the Intermountain area was severely restricted during the first part of this century by lack of adapted plant material. Crested…Publication Date 1986
- sagebrush
- Artemisia
- Agropyron
- crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum)
- United States
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordThe first large scale seedings of crested wheatgrass in Idaho were prompted by serious sheep losses to the poisonous plant halogeton. Depleted rangelands were seeded as rapidly as funds would permit…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron
- sheep
- Idaho
- Library Collection RecordThe purposes of this paper are to review the position of the genus Agropyron in the tribe Triticeae and to examine alternative taxonomic treatments within Agropyron. When Agropyron is defined as…Publication Date 1986
- North America
- crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum)
- North America
- Library Collection RecordEight cultivars of crested wheatgrass have been released for commercial production and use in the United States and Canada since 1927. Four are fairway types, two are standard types, one a Siberian…Publication Date 1986
- Canada
- Ephraim wheatgrass
- Fairway Crested Wheatgrass
- Hycrest
- Nordan wheatgrass
- Siberian wheatgrass
- United States
- Library Collection RecordConventional breeding programs in crested wheatgrass [Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaer tu., A.desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult., and A. fragile (Roth) Candargy] have been confined to selection and…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron cristatum
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron
- Fairway Agropyron cristatum
- Fairway Crested Wheatgrass
- Fairway Wheatgrass
- Hycrest
- Western United States
- Library Collection RecordThe seeds of crested wheatgrass are not particularly adapted for germination under cold seedbed conditions. Germination in the early spring would be an advantage for successful seedling establishment…Publication Date 1986
- germination
- soil moisture
- soil temperature
- Library Collection RecordConsiderable literature has accumulated concerning seed and seedling relations of crested wheatgrass. The extensive literature covers a period of more than 40 years and is found in a wide variety of…Publication Date 1986
- Agropyron
- Intermountain United States
- Intermountain West
- North America
- Library Collection RecordCrested wheatgrass seedings in the western United States have persisted as virtual monocultures for over 50 years following their establishment. Such stability typically is attributed to superior…Publication Date 1986
- crested wheatgrass
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe history and present status of entomological observations and research in Utah and other states as related to crested wheatgrass is reviewed. The black grass bug Lapops hesperius Uhler is the…Publication Date 1986
- pest control methods
- North America
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordSoluble carbohydrate reserves are often considered the primary source of carbon for regrowth defoliation (Cook 1966; Trlica & Singh 1979; Deregibus, Trlica & Jameson 1982). However, in…Publication Date 1985
- Agropyron desertorum
- Agropyron spicatum
- North America
- Library Collection RecordRoot growth responses to defoliation were observed in the field with an improved root periscope technique, which is described. the grazing tolerant, Eurasian bunchgrass, Agropyron desertorum, was…Publication Date 1984
- Agropyron desertorum
- A. spicatum
- North America
- Library Collection RecordAn increase in photosynthetic rates of foliage on partially defoliated plants may be a mechanism to partially compensate for herbivory (McNaughton 1979, 1983, Dyer et al. 1982). This enhanced…Publication Date 1984
- Agropyron
- photosynthesis
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe bunchgrass grwoth form, which is very prominent in water-limited environments, can result in considerable self-shading of photosynthetically active foliage. The consequences of this growth form…Publication Date 1983
- Agropyron
- CO2
- photosynthesis
- North America
- Library Collection RecordChemical, mechanical and phenological mechanisms by which plants avoid or minimize herbivory have received considerable attention in the last decade (e.g. Janzen 1969; Rosenthal 1977; Cates and…Publication Date 1981
- Agropyron desertorum
- Artemisia tridentata
- North America
- Library Collection RecordVegetation diversity and productivity of western rangelands have been reduced by selective grazing. Range improvement research in the late 1930's and 1940's suggested that controlling…
- land reclamation
- monoculture
- North America
- Library Collection RecordThe paper writing about the change that is happening in the agriculture and natural resource professions.
- biodiversity
- Arizona
- changes
- Library Collection RecordThe description of season changing in Arizona.
- Monsoon climate
- Arizona