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- Library Collection RecordProduction of total forage dry matter is mainly a function of available soil water and soil nitrogen (N), whereas plant morphological development from spring greenup to anthesis is primarily…Publication Date 1990-05-01
- morphogenesis
- Agropyron desertorum
- nitrogen fertilizers
- growth
- Pascopyrum smithii
- grasses
- North Dakota
- soil water
- Library Collection RecordFour separate studies evaluated several herbicides for reducing competition from overwintering weeds on sandy rangeland in west Texas. Air temperature was 10 degrees C with soil moisture adequate for…Publication Date 1989-09-01
- 2,4-D
- dicamba
- picloram
- Texas
- plant competition
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordCombined greenhouse, laboratory, and field studies were conducted to develop techniques which could be used to characterize seed germination and seedling survival of a plant species when subjected to…Publication Date 1989-07-01
- sequences
- characterization
- Eragrostis trichophora
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- hybrids
- Eragrostis
- Panicum antidotale
- Eragrostis curvula
- seedling emergence
- drought tolerance
- stand establishment
- mortality
- soil water content
- seed germination
- Eragrostis lehmanniana
- grasses
- soil water regimes
- Library Collection RecordA field study was conducted from 1981 through 1986 on an established stand of grass and legume species on topsoiled coalmine spoils in northwest Colorado to evaluate the effects of N and P…Publication Date 1989-07-01
- fodder legumes
- residual effects
- phosphorus fertilizers
- crop quality
- dry matter accumulation
- protein content
- coal mined land
- nitrogen fertilizers
- mountain grasslands
- crude protein
- growth rate
- plant density
- application rates
- range management
- crop yield
- botanical composition
- grasses
- Colorado
- forage
- Library Collection RecordMany Nebraska Sandhills subirrigated meadows have shifted to predominantly cool-season grasses. Meadows are often cut in July when forage quality of cool-season is lower than that of warm-season…Publication Date 1989-03-01
- subsurface irrigation
- atrazine
- Nebraska
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe herbivore grazing optimization hypothesis predicts an increase in aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) at a moderate grazing intensity. The hypothesis was tested by grazing controlled…Publication Date 1989-03-01
- Acrididae
- Aulocara elliotti
- land productivity
- herbivores
- grazing
- grasses
- Colorado
- Library Collection RecordAbove- and belowground net primary production (ANPP and BNPP) were compared between a 30-year-old crested wheatgrass site and an adjacent native shortgrass prairie. ANPP was estimated using…Publication Date 1989-03-01
- roots
- Agropyron cristatum
- Wyoming
- prairies
- biomass
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordSilicon in forage reduces dry matter digestibility and may reduce grazing preference. Two studies were conducted with the following objectives: (1) to evaluate a method of determining grazing…Publication Date 1989-03-01
- silicon
- species differences
- Idaho
- sheep
- phenology
- grasses
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordRotational grazing is commonly assumed to improve livestock distribution compared to continuous grazing, but little evidence supports this contention. Research was conducted on the effects of…Publication Date 1989-03-01
- rotational grazing
- Texas
- grasses
- beef cattle
- feeding preferences
- Library Collection RecordForty-six clonal lines of a hybrid cross between Pseudoroegneria spicata [Pursh.] Scribn. and Smith × Elytrigia repens [L.] Beauv. were used to evaluate the influence of various chemical and…Publication Date 1989-01-01
- trials
- forage crops
- hybrids
- plant morphology
- pastures
- cattle
- in vitro digestibility
- phenology
- Montana
- grazing
- grasses
- feeding preferences
- chemical constituents of plants
- Library Collection RecordA salt water blowout at an oil drilling site in 1982 in a badlands area of western North Dakota caused severe damage to the native vegetation. A study was initiated to measure the effect of…Publication Date 1989-01-01
- oil spills
- decontamination
- plant cover
- brine
- reclamation
- land restoration
- grasses
- forage
- North Dakota
- Library Collection RecordQuantitative effects of temperature on germination were determined for 17 cool-season grasses, 19 warm-season grasses, and 18 miscellaneous forbs and shrubs associated with semiarid rangelands. These…Publication Date 1989-01-01
- regression analysis
- inhibition
- germination
- woody plants
- semiarid zones
- seed germination
- temperature
- rangelands
- grasses
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThis research project was conducted to evaluate the use of irrigation water to supplement precipitation during establishment of perennial forage plant communities on surface mined lands in the…Publication Date 1988-05-01
- irrigation requirement
- irrigated conditions
- forage legumes
- regeneration
- soil pH
- soil salinity
- establishment
- water quality
- range management
- grasses
- North Dakota
- Library Collection RecordAn artificial hoof was used to simulate trampling effects on native shortgrass sods in a greenhouse experiment. Severe to moderate trampling was applied to sods maintained under 3 soil water regimes…Publication Date 1987-07-01
- livestock
- grazing
- infiltration
- grasses
- prairie soils
- soil water regimes
- soil compaction
- bulk density
- simulation
- trampling
- Library Collection RecordHeavy grazing by extremely high densities of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea resulted in degradation of the lichen stands. Grasses, sedges, and other vascular…Publication Date 1987-07-01
- ranges
- dryas octopetalla
- salix crassijulis
- Cyperaceae
- mosses and liverworts
- Salix
- lichens
- climax communities
- Alaska
- reindeer
- land restoration
- overgrazing
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordTallgrass prairie annual hay production and chemical composition (N, P, K, CA) data from a 23-year study conducted by H.J. Harper, Oklahoma State University, from 1929 through 1951 were correlated…Publication Date 1986-07-01
- multiple regression
- weather
- nutrient content
- forage evaluation
- hay
- Oklahoma
- climatic factors
- quality
- grasses
- 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 RecordThe effects of fertilizer on the establishment of seeded grass and legume stands when reclaiming coal strip mines have not been evaluated in northwest Colorado. Nitrogen (0, 28, 56, and 112 kgN/ha)…Publication Date 1986-03-01
- coal
- phosphorus fertilizers
- mined soils
- legumes
- fertilizer application
- reclamation
- yields
- nitrogen fertilizers
- semiarid zones
- establishment
- grasses
- Colorado
- Library Collection RecordVegetation, small rodents, and birds were sampled during the growing seasons of 2 years on prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies and adjacent mixed-grass prairie in western South Dakota.…Publication Date 1986-03-01
- fauna
- colonies
- flora
- rodents
- birds
- Cynomys ludovicianus
- population density
- South Dakota
- species
- semiarid zones
- prairies
- rangelands
- ecology
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordTotal production of aboveground biomass on a 238-ha watershed was not affected when big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) was controlled by aerial application of 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid…Publication Date 1986-03-01
- plant propagation
- aerial spraying
- 2,4-D
- grassland improvement
- pesticide application
- watersheds
- brush control
- Wyoming
- Artemisia tridentata
- biomass
- botanical composition
- rangelands
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe attenuation of beta particles by vegetation was evaluated as a nondestructive method for estimating aboveground biomass in tallgrass prairie in northeast Kansas. Regression equations using the…Publication Date 1985-11-01
- beta attenuation
- nondestructive methods
- biomass determination
- Kansas
- Andropogon gerardii
- prairies
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordEstablishment of forage grasses depends upon their ability to compete for resources in the critical seedling establishment phase. Desirable native grass species are generally considered to be more…Publication Date 1985-11-01
- forage crops
- Bothriochloa
- C4 photosynthesis
- leaf area
- plant morphology
- perennials
- seedlings
- growth
- biomass
- grasses
- water stress
- Library Collection RecordThe objective of this study was to evaluate the use of supplement blocks on body weight change, blood parameters, and lambing performance of ewes grazing dry, annual grasses during the summer prior…Publication Date 1985-07-01
- Targhee
- supplementary feeds
- ewes
- grazing experiments
- dry seasons
- California
- rangelands
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe bite count technique was used to estimate the botanical composition of cattle diets for deferred rotation and continuous grazing systems on seeded forest range previously clearcut of spruce and…Publication Date 1984-07-01
- British Columbia
- legumes
- diets
- cattle
- botanical composition
- grazing
- grasses
- forage
- Library Collection RecordFourteen grass accessions were evaluated in terms of yields, nutrient quality, and palatability to sheep at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station in southeastern Idaho. The interspecific hybrid (…Publication Date 1984-07-01
- sheep feeding
- nutrient potential
- Artemisia tripartita
- palatability
- Idaho
- grazing
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordA study was done to illustrate the influence of fiber on the ratio of estimated to actual dry weight fractions of selected species of grasses, forbs, and shrubs in samples analyzed by…Publication Date 1983-07-01
- grasses
- forbs
- shrubs
- herbivore diets
- Library Collection RecordDiammonium phosphate (DAP), air-dropped in early autumn 1974 to contain a wildfire on the San Joaquin Experimental Range in California, applied high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus to foothill…Publication Date 1982-11-01
- annual grasslands
- Fire Retardant
- diammonium phosphate
- DAP
- drop
- range readiness
- wildfire
- San Joaquin Experimental Range
- phosphorus
- responses
- precipitation
- soil moisture
- composition
- forbs
- nitrogen
- grasses
- species composition
- California
- Library Collection RecordForty-eight food habits studies were combined to determine what plants are normally eaten by Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni), and the relative value of these plants from a manager…Publication Date 1973-03-01
- Foods Eaten
- Rocky Mountain Elk
- Food Habitats
- Manager
- Stomach Analysis
- Feeding Observations
- Pen Feeding
- food habits
- improvement programs
- Cervus canadensis nelsoni
- diet
- consumption
- shrubs
- seasons
- forage values
- forbs
- plants
- grasses
- Value
- Library Collection RecordFive grass species were fall seeded on dryland under three cultural treatments-summer fallow, tilled stubble, and standing stubble-in 1966, 1967, and 1968. Seedling emergence was recorded the…Publication Date 1971-05-01
- Crop Residue Culture
- Tilled Stubble
- Standing Stubble
- occupancy
- Cultural Treatments
- Rhizome Extension
- phytotoxicity
- plant residues
- abandoned croplands
- Thickspike Wheatgrass
- Prairie Sandreed
- Grass Seedlings
- seedbeds
- green needlegrass
- western wheatgrass
- Summer Fallow
- Fall Seeding
- stand establishment
- switchgrass
- emergence
- nitrogen
- grasses
- interactions
- Library Collection RecordFall, spring, and summer burning significantly reduced total forage production on a Texas High Plains range. Although herbage yields were less on burned plots, the vigor of the desirable blue grama (…Publication Date 1969-09-01
- Erosion Potential
- Plant Attribute Measurements
- Red Threeawn
- Amarillo
- High Plains
- Sand Dropseed
- leaf length
- Moisture Accumulation
- Texas Technological College Research Farm
- recovery
- effects
- burning
- climatic conditions
- fall
- summer
- herbage yields
- fire
- forage production
- spring
- blue grama
- grasses
- Bouteloua gracilis
- Texas
- Library Collection RecordObservation of two comparable areas of mountain rangeland seeded to grass the same year showed that uncontrolled populations of pocket gophers were very destructive. Protection of seeded areas…Publication Date 1969-09-01
- Seeded Mountain Range
- Uncontrolled Populations
- Measure
- Stand Indexes
- Corm
- Fleshy Rooted Forbs
- Gopher Food
- Monte Cristo
- Tarweed
- pocket gophers
- Madia glomerata
- Cache National Forest
- Thomomys talpoides
- Economical
- forage production
- forbs
- protection
- frequency
- grasses
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordDifferent aged seeds of six grass varieties were tested for percentage laboratory germination and percentage field emergence. Best age of seed for planting differed greatly among the varieties and…Publication Date 1969-07-01
- Dormant Period
- sand bluestem
- Yellow Indiangrass
- Lovington
- A-6606
- Grenville
- Llano
- Fort Collins Experimental Range Station
- Laboratory
- Field
- planting
- temperature
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- Sideoats grama
- Andropogon hallii
- seeds
- switchgrass
- Time
- moisture
- germination
- emergence
- age
- blue grama
- grasses
- Colorado
- Library Collection RecordSoil moisture depletion varied directly with extent of top and root growth of five grass species seeded on four areas between 6,500 and 8,500 ft in northern Utah. Smooth bromegrass and intermediate…Publication Date 1969-07-01
- livestock nutrition
- high elevation
- Top
- orchardgrass
- Root
- temperature
- Timothy
- Soil Moisture Depletion
- diet
- selection
- plant composition
- Tall Oatgrass
- water use
- soil
- intermediate wheatgrass
- smooth bromegrass
- chemical composition
- phosphorus
- potassium
- adaptability
- moisture
- forage production
- variation
- characteristics
- seeding
- growth
- nitrogen
- grasses
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordSoil depth heterogeneity within the shallow limy range site in western Kansas results in differences in range composition and production. Deep soils produce more forage than shallow (< 4″) soils.…Publication Date 1969-05-01
- Limy
- Western Kansas
- heterogeneity
- Range Composition
- Midgrass
- shortgrasses
- tallgrasses
- soil depth
- range sites
- depth
- Sideoats grama
- buffalo grass
- Shallow
- mixed prairie
- little bluestem
- big bluestem
- stocking rate
- range condition
- Hairy Grama
- blue grama
- relationships
- vegetation
- production
- forbs
- grasses
- basal cover
- Library Collection RecordThe diet and forage preferences of the black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) were studied by stomach content analysis to determine the degree of competition between cattle and jackrabbits on…Publication Date 1968-07-01
- Black Tailed Jackrabbits
- Sandhill Rangeland
- Stomach Content Analysis
- Reseed Forage
- Seasonal Diet
- Grazing Relationships
- Forage Maturity
- preference
- sixweeks fescue
- secondary succession
- availability
- Sand Dropseed
- Sand Sagebrush
- Food Preferences
- pricklypear
- Eastern Colorado Range Station
- Lepus californicus
- western wheatgrass
- diet
- winter
- longevity
- seeds
- fall
- summer
- shrubs
- competition
- spring
- cattle
- forbs
- grasses
- Colorado
- alfalfa
- Library Collection RecordDiurnal and seasonal differences, as well as site features of slope aspect and shading, were found to be significant variables related to forage moisture content on a mountain summer range in…Publication Date 1968-07-01
- Forage Moisture Variations
- Mountain Summer Range
- Diurnal
- Site Features
- Slope Aspect
- shading
- Wet Weight
- Dry Matter Data
- Leaf Texture
- Time of Day
- seasonal variation
- moisture content
- dry weight
- animal unit month
- Differences
- shrubs
- seasonal
- conversion
- range production
- forbs
- grasses
- Utah
- interactions
- Library Collection RecordNine legumes, including three strains of variegated alfalfa, were planted in mixture with each of four grasses in the fall of 1950. Alfalfa A-169 was the most productive legume. In 1965 it yielded…Publication Date 1968-07-01
- mountain range
- Mountain Brome
- Majors Flat
- Rhizomatous Intermediate Wheatgrass
- mixtures
- smooth brome
- legumes
- yield
- growth
- grasses
- Utah
- crested wheatgrass
- alfalfa
- Library Collection RecordYields of 38 species of native and introduced grasses were found to be significantly reduced by scale infestation. Grasses are grouped into three classes: (1) grasses with reduced yields, (2) grasses…Publication Date 1967-09-01
- Infestation
- forage grasses
- clipping
- Introduced
- Rhodesgrass Scale
- Reduced Yields
- Resistant
- Mature Plants
- Andropogon graminis
- south Texas
- native
- responses
- seedlings
- damage
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordAfter 25 years of protection from grazing, grassland plots tripled in percent of ground cover of grasses. Grazed desert grasslands showed continued increases of mesquite. Protection resulted in…Publication Date 1967-05-01
- plant succession
- ground cover
- rangelands
- Grass Cover
- Lincoln
- Aspen
- Released Grazing
- Vegetational Cover
- Apache
- Carson
- Cibola
- Gila
- Santa Fe
- national forests
- ponderosa pine
- mesquite
- protection
- grasses
- New Mexico
- Library Collection RecordA food habits study, in a big sagebrush-grass type in Wyoming's Red Desert, revealed very little overlap in use of native range forage by pronghorn antelope and domestic sheep. Generally, sheep…Publication Date 1967-01-01
- domestic sheep
- Native Range Forage
- Domesitc Sheep
- feeding habits
- Red Desert
- Feeding Trials
- Food Preferences
- Antelope
- Pronghorn Antelope
- needle-and-thread
- Bluegrass
- multiple use
- shrubs
- Rabbitbrush
- competition
- Winterfat
- forage production
- utilization
- sagebrush
- grasses
- Wyoming
- Library Collection RecordPerennial and annual grass composition changes were studied for several years in two locations formerly dominated by chaparral. Hardinggrass, smilo, and desert wheatgrass increased but other seeded…Publication Date 1965-11-01
- Species Composition Changes
- Seeded Grasslands
- Conversion Projects
- Tule Springs Demonstration Range
- Manley Ranch Demonstration Range
- Forage Inventory
- Species Evaluation
- Desert Wheatgrass
- annuals
- chaparral
- Harding grass
- Smilo
- brush
- perennials
- grass
- Weeds
- grasses
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordComparisons were made of within-plant weight distribution, chemical composition by plant part, and total plant digestion by nylon bag technique of mature annual grasses and forbs collected from pure-…Publication Date 1965-11-01
- chemical composition
- digestibility
- Pure Stand Plots
- Weight distribution
- plant parts
- Medicago hispida
- forb
- Hopland Field Station
- range condition
- digestion
- annual range
- nutritive value
- Nylon Bag
- Microdigestion
- yield
- composition
- grasses
- California
- Library Collection RecordCombinations of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer gave greater yield increases than either element applied alone. Yield response and chemical composition of forage appeared to be a result of…Publication Date 1965-09-01
- fertilizer
- botanical composition
- dry matter
- Meadow Vegetation
- sub-irrigated meadow
- Nebraska Sandhills
- Holt County
- chemical composition
- phosphorus
- legumes
- yield
- vegetation
- nitrogen
- forage
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordUnderstory yield was greater on thinned than on unthinned plots. When pine canopy exceeded 45 percent, forbs produced more than grasses; below 45 percent, grasses were superior producers. This…Publication Date 1965-05-01
- forage improvements
- productive capacity
- canopy
- Understory Response
- Three Years
- Thinning Pine
- 45 Percent
- Timber Improvement
- Methow River Valley
- Winthrop
- Methow Game Range
- Growing Area
- Pine Canopy
- pine basal area
- Pinus ponderosa
- ponderosa pine
- forbs
- Washington
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordPercentage botanical composition by weight can be estimated from composition determined with the laboratory point method, if differences among species, seasons of growth, and botanical composition…Publication Date 1965-05-01
- weight composition
- point samples
- Laboratory Point Method
- growth season
- Equation Selection
- stage of maturity
- botanical composition
- regression
- Clipped Herbage
- vegetation
- forbs
- grasses
- species composition
- sampling
- Library Collection RecordThe season of active growth and water use by warm-season grasses is about five months, May through September, compared with seven to eight months for cool-season grasses. There was less water in the…Publication Date 1965-03-01
- Cool Season
- Soil Moisture Conditions
- warm season
- Active Growth
- Nebraska Agricultural Experimental Station
- water use
- Great Plains
- Lincoln
- pastures
- water
- forage yield
- livestock numbers
- drought
- grasses
- Library Collection RecordThe pattern of retrogression due to grazing for native vegetation was established for the important plants of the loamy prairie range site. Total forb numbers increased as range condition declined…Publication Date 1965-01-01
- Decreasers
- Increasers
- secondary succession
- North Central Oklahoma
- Animal Output
- Loamy Prairie
- invaders
- Sideoats
- rainfall
- Big
- Little
- native vegetation
- retrogression
- bluestems
- patterns
- overuse
- buffalo grass
- mulch
- grama
- plant cover
- income
- productivity
- soil moisture
- range condition
- blue grama
- forbs
- overgrazing
- grasses
- basal cover
- 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 1964-07-01
- halfshrubs
- Natural Drainages
- Central Arizona
- Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest
- soil types
- watersheds
- vegetative cover
- chaparral
- history
- change
- responses
- chemical control
- forbs
- grasses
- 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 1964-03-01
- stenoptera
- Nitrogen Response
- Eagle Ranch
- Phalaris tuberosa
- San Luis Obispo County
- ammonium sulfate
- Bromus mollis
- annuals
- Soft Chess
- mixed stand
- winter range
- Harding grass
- fertilizer
- Differential
- perennials
- yields
- grasses
- 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 1964-03-01
- Rainy Season
- seasonal variation
- coverage
- Summer Season
- Grazing Intensities
- origin
- grazing intensity
- India
- forbs
- grasses
- management