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- Library Collection RecordThis article tells the story of Lucretia Roberts, the first female deputy sheriff in the state. Lucretia was elected to office in 1912 in Canelo, Arizona.Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Law enforcement
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Desert grasslands of the southwestern United States have experienced an increase in the abundance and distribution of woody plant species over the past century. Shrub encroachment has caused…Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- black grama
- Bouteloua eriopoda
- broom snakeweed
- Gutierrezia sarothrae
- invasive species
- Lehmann lovegrass
- New Mexico
- perennial grasses
- prescribed burn
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report focuses on final demand, employment, income and tax revenue effects recreational visitors to refuges have on the economies of local regions. In addition to the economic effects of refuge…Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- ecosystem services
- ecotourism
- United States
- wildlife refuges
- Library Collection RecordAn updated and revised version of an article published in 2010, Mary Kasulaitis presents us with a brief biography of some of the doctors who called the Arivaca area home between 1860 and 1940, many…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordIn 1952 Don Rowley purchased the Rancho Seco from Peggy and Jack Rubel, establishing the Carrow Cattle Company several years later after acquiring additional parcels. After his death, his sons sold a…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordWilliam M. Marteny and his family settled at the headwaters of Arivaca Creek, filing for a homestead while trading cattle and horses. In 1919 Marteny sold the homestead, purchasing the Robles Ranch…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordDiscussing the major themes and political tensions of the 1960s and 70s, Mary Kasulaitis tells us the story of Arivaca in the late sixties as "the hippies" began to arrive, focusing in on…Publication Date 2013
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis presentation provides a brief summary of Feldman's Master's thesis work in the Altar Valley.Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- culture
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordRestoration priorities are typically established without quantitative information on how to overcome the thresholds that preclude successful restoration of desirable ecosystem properties and services…Publication Date 2013
- fire intensity
- fire physics
- fire trap
- grassland
- juniper
- positive feedback
- regime shifts
- resilience
- restoration ecology
- state and transition model
- restoration ecology
- fire ecology
- modelling
- management
- indigenous encroaching species
- grasslands
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge is a 117,464-acre refuge that sits within the Altar Valley. Established in 1985, the refuge is primarily made up of semi-desert grasslands, ribboned by a…Publication Date 2013
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordEvaluating vegetation cover is an important factor in understanding the sustainability of many ecosystems. Remote sensing methods with sufficient accuracy could dramatically alter how biotic…Publication Date 2012-07-01
- imagery
- monitoring
- rangelands
- SamplePoint
- unmanned aerial vehicle
- Library Collection RecordMedusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae [L.] Nevski), the most problematic invasive grass on many California rangelands, is difficult to control selectively in grasslands. Prescribed burning, grazing…Publication Date 2012-07-01
- chemicals
- invasive
- rangelands
- selective
- Taeniatherum caput-medusae
- weed
- Library Collection RecordHalf of the world’s land base is grazed by domesticated livestock. Because of the important functional role of ants in grasslands, it is important to understand the effect of livestock grazing on ant…Publication Date 2012-05-01
- disturbance
- Formicidae
- productivity
- rangelands
- semiarid grasslands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- control methods
- fires
- rangelands
- Ethiopia
- grazing
- Nature conservation
- biodiversity
- species
- land use
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- plants
- rangelands
- environmental factors
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- forage
- quality
- infrared radiation
- calibration
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- carbon
- soil
- plants
- biomass
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- fertilizer application
- nitrogen
- nitrogen fixation
- Nitrogen cycle
- range management
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- rangelands
- phenology
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- data collection
- rangelands
- pastoralism
- grazing systems
- Drug plants
- journals
- Indigenous knowledge
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- data collection
- rangelands
- pastoralism
- grazing systems
- Drug plants
- journals
- Indigenous knowledge
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- forests
- rangelands
- food security
- Library Collection RecordPublication Date 2012
- rangelands
- resource conservation
- forests
- Forestry policies
- FAO
- Regional development
- National planning
- cooperation
- Library Collection RecordThis biological opinion was issued in response to a request for formal consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding the potential impacts resulting from the proposed Multi-Unit Burn…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Chiricahua leopard frog
- Colinus virginianus ridgwayi
- Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina
- endangered species
- Endangered Species Act
- masked bobwhite quail
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- Rana chiricahuensis
- United States
- Library Collection RecordEarly in 1896 the owners of the Montana Mine requested the contruction or repair of a road over which they could haul ore. This led Pima County to declare the road from Amado to Oro Blanco a County…Publication Date 2012
- road construction
- erosion
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides an overview of the notable events of 1918 including the filming of two westerns, The Trail to Yesterday and The Light of Western Stars, the drafting of several Arivaca residents…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- history
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief history of several major roads in the Altar Valley from the initial community-led push for the development of improved roads to facilitate use of the newly available…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- erosion
- history
- road construction
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis Image Gallery is provided as a complimentary source of high quality digital photographs available from the Agricultural Research Service Information Staff. Source: USDA Agricultural Research…Publication Date 2012
- agriculture
- agricultural research
- photography
- Agricultural services
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief but entertaining overview of life in the Arivaca area in 1917. Many of the more exciting events were born of the tensions surrounding the impending prohibition of…Publication Date 2012
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- history
- United States
- Library Collection RecordKaren Hickman of Oklahoma State University takes us on a tour of the TNC's Tall Grass Prairie reserve. She explains the relations between historical Bison grazing, periodic fire, and drought in…Publication Date 2012
- grasslands
- fire ecology
- fires
- invasive species
- Oklahoma
- United States
- Library Collection RecordKaren Hickman of Oklahoma State University gives an up close and personal look at a wildfire raging across her family's land. With her background in range ecology, it is the perfect opportunity…Publication Date 2012
- wildfires
- grasslands
- Oklahoma
- United States
- Library Collection RecordPat Johnson and Roger Gates of South Dakota State University explain how to correctly estimate utilization of forage in a rangeland setting. Source: Autonomy ProductionsPublication Date 2012
- utilization
- forage
- grazing
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 requires the USDA Forest Service to conduct assessments of resource conditions. This report fulfills that need and focuses on quantifying extent,…Publication Date 2012
- remote sensing
- grazing
- livestock
- rangeland health
- Renewable Resources Planning Act
- United States
- Library Collection RecordSome ecosystems in North America have been so radically transformed by human activity, that they have often been described as domesticated. Chris Call of Utah State University examines how cheatgrass…Publication Date 2012
- range management
- sagebrush
- juniper
- Bromus tectorum
- cheatgrass
- United States
- woody encroachment
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides the background for the construction of Ruby Road and details the politics surrounding its placement and maintenance over the years. As with many of the road projects in the late…Publication Date 2012
- mining
- road construction
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAround the world, grasslands systems are converting into woody shrubland systems. In southern New Mexico, a combination of federal, state, and scientific agencies and institutions have teamed up to…Publication Date 2012
- ecological restoration
- grassland restoration
- New Mexico
- shrub encroachment
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe aspen stands have been degraded due to over utilization. This narrated powerpoint presentation gives an overview of the restoration efforts in Fishlake National Forest.Publication Date 2012
- United States
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordIn this installment of Arivaca Yesterdays Mary Kasulaitis investigates the question of Arivaca's origins through a dissection of "Harvey's Historic Hyperbole," a claim made by…Publication Date 2012
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordA narrated powerpoint presentation, this video examines livestock's grazing preferences and the implication for restoration efforts in riparian and meadow ecosystems.Publication Date 2012
- Aspen
- Aspen Communities
- restoration
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis narrated PowerPoint presentation was originally presented at the 2012 SRM conference in Spokane, WA. It gives an overview of the effects of certain genetic characteristics of aspen stands on…Publication Date 2012
- Aspen Communities
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief overview of what life was like in Arivaca after 1912. Arivaca was essentially a company town of the Arivaca Land and Cattle Company (ALCC). The ALCC owned the town store…Publication Date 2012
- ranching
- history
- cattle
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article provides a brief overview of what life was like in Arivaca from its early years in the 1860s to 1912 when Arizona gained statehood.Publication Date 2012
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordOriginally presented at the 2012 SRM conference in Spokane, WA this narrated powerpoint presentation examines the variable resistance and tolerance of aspen clones to various pest species.Publication Date 2012
- United States
- Library Collection RecordOriginally given at the 2012 SRM conference in Spokane, this presentation describes the findings of one study that examines the landscape-scale genetic diversity within and between aspen communities.Publication Date 2012
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis narrated powerpoint presentation provides an overview of aspen biology and ecology from 1912 to present.Publication Date 2012
- Aspen
- United States
- Library Collection Record
147 Ecological Sites
Lamar Smith, a retired range professor, dips into his vast knowledge of geology and ecology to explain how patterns on soil and plants develop across the landscape and how this "ecological sites…Publication Date 2012- ecological sites
- United States
- Library Collection RecordPat Johnson and Roger Gates of South Dakota State University explain how to correctly measure species frequency in a rangeland setting. Source: Autonomy ProductionsPublication Date 2012
- United States
- Library Collection RecordPat Johnson and Roger Gates of South Dakota State University explain how to correctly measure ground cover in a rangeland setting. Source: Autonomy ProductionsPublication Date 2012
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article follows the Ronstadts, a prominent family in early Southern Arizona history, from Frederick Augustus Ronstadt's arrival in Mexico in the 1850s to the present day.Publication Date 2012
- history
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States