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- Library Collection RecordThe influence of stocking rates on animal’s performance and forage selectivity through co-grazing of sheep and goats within pastures that contain various species of grasses and forbs was…Publication Date 1969
- animal performance
- goats
- mixed pastures
- sheep
- average daily gains
- co-grazing
- forage selectivity
- stocking rates
- Library Collection RecordThe Goodwin Creek Experimental Watershed in northern Mississippi was used to investigate how switching from cultivated land to non-cultivated land, including pastures, alters the amount and rate of…Publication Date 1969
- erosion
- land use
- rainfall
- runoff
- sediment transport
- Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT model)
- watershed
- Library Collection RecordThe progression of land use changes in El Dorado County, California from 1957 to 1997 was summarized by cataloging past and present land management practices in addition to associated political…Publication Date 1969
- land management
- land use
- ranching
- conservation
- hardwood rangeland
- political ecology
- Sierra Nevada
- Library Collection RecordA land-use plan and a soil conservation strategy for reducing catastrophic soil erosion in the central eastern area of Nigeria (05Ëš 38’, 7Ëš 07’ N; 06Ëš 36’, 8Ëš 30 Publication Date 1969
- erosion control
- land degradation
- land management
- land use
- Nigeria
- soil conservation
- soil erosion
- water conservation
- soil loss tolerance
- Library Collection RecordFleece of sheared sheep coming off winter range in Juab County, Utah were examined for presence of squarrose knapweed capitula. Viability of collected seeds was measured in greenhouse germination…Publication Date 1969
- wool
- sheep
- Centaurea virgata ssp.
- rangeland weeds
- squarrose knapweed
- weed dispersal
- Library Collection RecordEwe-lamb pairs were grazed within a conifer plantation in northern Idaho for three summers. Botanical composition of sheep diets was estimated using microhistological analysis of fecal samples.…Publication Date 1969
- nutrition
- sheep
- diaminopimelic acid
- fecal nitrogen
- forage selection
- prescribed grazing
- Library Collection RecordResearchers in Oregon set out to determine the effects of four grazing durations by sheep in early stages of stem elongation on annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) seed yield. Results of this…Publication Date 1969
- Lolium multiflorum
- sheep
- Ovis aries
- grazing
- stem elongation
- Ryegrass
- seed yield
- tillers
- Library Collection RecordIn this Florida study, Steinman et al. used a recently established, replicated cattle ranch to investigate the effects of cattle grazing and pasture land use on invertebrate communities in seasonal…Publication Date 1969
- invertebrates
- nutrients
- land use
- cattle grazing
- Chironomids
- Florida wetlands
- Improved Pasture
- semi-native pasture
- Library Collection RecordThis study sought to describe the nature, extent, and timing of sheep impacts upon well-established young Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) trees planted in two patterns of sheep/pasture/conifer…Publication Date 1969
- sheep
- deer
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- agroforestry
- browsing
- Debarking
- Douglas-fir
- Library Collection RecordMitchell et al. conducted a two-year lamb grazing trial, at the University of California Imperial Valley Research and Extension Center near El Centro, California, to test the effects of lamb grazing…Publication Date 1969
- sheep
- Ovis aries
- alfalfa
- Medicago sativa
- soil penetration
- Sonoran Desert
- water infiltration rate
- winter grazing
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, Martorell and Peters measured the impacts of human and livestock disturbance on Mammillaria pectinifera, a threatened Mexican globose cactus. In general, decreases in cactus…Publication Date 1969
- methods
- overgrazing
- land use
- land degradation
- density
- multimetric indices
- Library Collection RecordIntensive rotational grazing was used to see if it could be used as an alternative to costly buffer strips to restore streambanks following continuous grazing. The authors compared bank erosion,…Publication Date 1969
- erosion
- fish
- land use
- riparian vegetation
- streams
- buffer strips
- fish habitat
- index of biotic integrity
- intensive rotational grazing
- Library Collection RecordLeininger and Sharrow evaluated sheep browsing of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) seedlings in 1981 and 1982, on the Coast Range of Oregon. Most sheep browsing of Douglas-fir seedlings was…Publication Date 1969
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- sheep
- browsing
- seedlings
- conifers
- Douglas-fir
- mechanical impacts
- Library Collection RecordA grazing gradient in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah was identified with field measurements and spectral mixture analysis (SMA) of remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery. Grazing…Publication Date 1969
- land degradation
- land use
- overgrazing
- rangelands
- grazing gradient
- hyperspectral
- imaging spectroscopy
- Library Collection RecordAuthors discuss using cattle or other livestock as a vegetation management tool. Grazing has the potential to allow tree seedlings to establish on tree plantations in the absence of competing…Publication Date 1969
- grazing
- cattle
- sheep
- Competing Vegetation
- tree establishment
- tree plantations
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of fall and spring grazing by sheep on cover components and recovery following a change in seasonality of grazing practices, were studied within long-term grazing treatments of three-tip…Publication Date 1969
- sheep
- herbivory
- Artemisia tripartita
- grazing season
- rangeland indicators
- resilience
- three-tip sagebrush