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- Library Collection RecordSummary not available. To access this document contact the Arizona Game and Fish department.Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- birds of prey
- United States
- Library Collection RecordA brief opinion piece, this article takes a closer look at the increasingly common policy debate surrounding the urban-rural interface, focusing particularly on the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- open space
- public policy
- ranching
- United States
- urban sprawl
- Library Collection RecordA brief article, Czech gives an overview of the ecology and management concerns surrounding the masked bobwhite.Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- endangered species
- masked bobwhite quail
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article gives a brief overview of the ecology and management concerns surrounding Sonoran Pronghorn along the U.S./Mexico border.Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- conservation
- Sonoran Pronghorn
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article gives a brief overview of the social, ecological and managerial concerns surrounding Jaguar conservation along the U.S./Mexico border.Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- conservation
- Jaguar
- New Mexico
- United States
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT Public debate about how, and whether, to graze southern Arizona's desert grasslands has been ongoing for decades. Increases in ecological knowledge and the creation of public…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- grazing
- United States
- Library Collection RecordWe know more about vegetation change on the Santa Rita Experimental Range since 1903 than is known about any other 20,000-ha area in the world. This record is only possible because important…Publication Date 2003
- mesquite
- Cacti
- Arizona
- burroweed
- perennial grasses
- Santa Rita Experimental Range
- Southwestern United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article covers the conviction of Mary Darling, an environmental consultant, for violating the federal Lacey Act. Darling admitted to moving 30 Pima Pineapple Cacti from land scheduled for…Publication Date 2003
- Arizona
- Coryphantha scheeri
- Lacey Act
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- United States
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT-The ferruginous pygmy-owl(Glaucidium brasilianum) has a wide geographic range centered on the Neotropics. At the northern edge of its distribution, the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (G . b.…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
- historical range
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Santa Rita Experimental Range is a vast open space with few signs of houses or human habitation, but at one time it was quite the opposite scene. Archaeological surface inspections reveal heavy…Publication Date 2003
- Arizona
- cultural resource
- Hohokam
- Santa Rita Experimental Range
- Library Collection RecordThis report described the methods used to characterize and map jaguar habitat throughout Arizona and includes numerous maps.Publication Date 2003
- jaguars
- Arizona
- wildlife conservation
- habitats
- Library Collection RecordGrasslands of central and southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico, an area known as the Apache Highlands Ecoregion, have undergone dramatic vegetation changes over the last 130…Publication Date 2003
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- conservation planning
- Desert Grassland
- native grasslands
- New Mexico
- Sonoran Desert
- United States
- Vegetation Change
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2002-08-01
- range management
- rotational grazing
- Arizona
- drought
- fire effects
- fires
- grassland improvement
- monitoring
- overgrazing
- grazing trials
- arid grasslands
- Library Collection RecordThe Walker Basin Allotment grazing system in central Arizona is designed to allocate resource use under elk (Cervus elaphus L.) and cattle (Bos taurus L.) grazing. The grazing system was designed to…Publication Date 2002-07-01
- feeding habits
- stubble
- topography
- woodland grasslands
- rotational grazing
- Pascopyrum smithii
- Cervus elaphus canadensis
- wildlife management
- canopy
- grazing
- Arizona
- beef cattle
- plant height
- Arizona
- deferred grazing
- paired-plot
- rest rotation
- stubble height
- western wheatgrass
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: Identifying habitat characteristics that influence selection of nest sites can provide information necessary for understanding and managing songbird populations. We quantified patterns of…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- bird communities
- habitat selection
- nest-site selection
- riparian vegetation
- songbirds
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract We examined short-term trends in relative abundance and species richness of breeding and wintering grassland birds before (1996) and after (1997, 1998) a prescribed burn in a mesquite-…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- fire management
- grassland
- grassland birds
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis news release documents the creation of the first private endangered species conservation bank approved by the US Fish and Wildlife Service for the Pima Pineapple Cactus. A parcel of land on the…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Conservation Bank
- mitigation
- Pima Pineapple Cactus
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Environmentalists, scientists, and land managers have long debated the role of ranching in landscape conservation with some contending that ranching represents the major threat to ecological…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordRanching is as much a part of the West as its wide-open spaces. The mystique of rugged individualism has sustained this activity well past the frontier era and has influenced how we view—and valueâ…Publication Date 2002
- Arizona
- endangered species
- ranching
- Southwest
- United States
- urbanization
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT Five native quail species inhabit arid and semi-arid ecosystems in the southwestern United States. One species is endangered, one species is declining throughout it’s historic range,…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Callipepla gambelli
- Callipepla squamata
- Callipepla v. ridgwayi
- Callipepla virginianus
- Cyrtonyx montezumae
- Eradication
- exotic grasses
- management
- native vegetation
- northern bobwhite
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis article gives an overview of Arivaca history.Publication Date 2002
- Arivaca
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordABSTRACT An overview of the 4 native species of quail in Arizona, their distribution, and habitats is presented. Possible threats to their longterm existence are explored. A discussion on harvest…Publication Date 2002
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Gambel's quail
- habitat
- management
- masked bobwhite
- Montezuma quail
- scaled quail
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-12-01
- depth
- riparian buffers
- habitats
- Arizona
- riparian grasslands
- rotational grazing
- rangelands
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThe cover of native and non-native introduced plants was compared between seeded (reclaimed) ski runs and adjacent or nearby unseeded (control) areas at a managed ski area in northern Arizona to…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- sowing
- disturbed soils
- skiing
- topsoil
- soil degradation
- ground cover
- grasslands
- reclamation
- species diversity
- introduced species
- botanical composition
- Arizona
- disturbance
- reclamation
- ski runs
- non-native species
- richness
- Library Collection RecordIn recent times, pinyon (Pinus spp.)-juniper (Juniperus spp.) woodlands have expanded into large portions of the Southwest historically occupied by grassland vegetation. From 1997-1998, we studied…Publication Date 2001-05-01
- wild birds
- pinyon-juniper
- frequency
- grasslands
- species diversity
- ecological succession
- woodlands
- establishment
- botanical composition
- Pinus
- Juniperus
- Arizona
- Juniperus monosperma
- grasslands
- pinyon-juniper
- Arizona
- southwestern U.S.
- avian communities
- succession
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-02-01
- plant communities
- Arizona
- treatment
- woody plants
- vegetation
- chaparral
- long term experiments
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2001-02-01
- energy content
- seasons
- altitude
- phosphorus
- nutritive value
- crude protein
- comparisons
- grasses
- quality
- forage
- rain
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe Altar Valley has been identified as an important conservation area for wildlife, plants and the ranching way of life. Debate over issues related to open space, urban development, urban planning,…Publication Date 2001
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this guide is to describe the various organizations working in invasive plant management, compare existing approaches, and identify opportunities for cooperation and coordination that…Publication Date 2001
- Arizona
- California
- Mexico
- Sonoran Desert
- Library Collection RecordThe purpose of this guide is to describe the various organizations working in invasive plant management, compare existing approaches, and identify opportunities for cooperation and coordination that…Publication Date 2001
- Arizona
- California
- Mexico
- Sonoran Desert
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: Despite the rapid urbanization of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, cattle ranching continues to play a major, if increasingly contested, political, economic, and ecological role in the…Publication Date 2001
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2000-12-01
- quality
- dietary quality
- Pleuraphis jamesii
- forage
- Arizona
- grazing intensity
- Elytrigia elongata
- Achnatherum hymenoides
- grasses
- Atriplex canescens
- Library Collection RecordFrequent and intense defoliation of grasses has been associated with the evolution of "grazing morphotypes" that exhibit a variety of vegetative traits correlated with improved grazing…Publication Date 2000-09-01
- apomixis
- selection pressure
- Bouteloua curtipendula
- inflorescences
- plant morphology
- seed productivity
- genetic effects
- grazing
- Arizona
- Bouteloua
- defoliation tolerance
- evolution
- grazing resistance
- Library Collection RecordForage use data can help rangeland and wildlife managers make informed decisions. However, managers need to know if forage use techniques that are commonly used to estimate ungulate herbivory under…Publication Date 2000-09-01
- experimental plots
- height-weight curve methods
- paired-plot method
- growth curve
- regression analysis
- equations
- Cervus elaphus
- selective grazing
- Pascopyrum smithii
- biomass
- range management
- beef cattle
- forage
- plant height
- Arizona
- height-weight
- herbivory
- paired-plot
- stubble height
- Library Collection RecordRobust needlegrass (Achnatherum robustum [Vasey] Barkw. = Stipa robusta [Vasey] Scribn.) is a high-biomass rangeland species that is adapted to warmer temperatures and matures later than most cool-…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- Colorado
- beef cattle
- forage
- Stipa
- dry matter
- feed intake
- feeding preferences
- plant height
- zero grazing
- Elytrigia elongata
- Acremonium
- endophytes
- Leymus chinensis
- ergot alkaloids
- ergometrine
- fungi
- roadside plants
- green fodders
- lysergic acid amide
- Stipa robusta
- Achnatherum robustum
- Acremonium
- ergonovine
- lysergic acid amide
- narcosis
- Neotyphodium
- sleepygrass
- Stipa robusta
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reports on the results of a 3-year field study of the effects of spring/summer burning and cattle grazing on wintering sparrows in the grasslands of southeastern Arizona. The effects of…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- ammodramus bairdii
- ammodramus savannarum ammolegus
- aimophila cassinnii
- passerculus sandwichensis
- wild birds
- pooecetes gramineus
- prescribed burning
- grazing intensity
- wildlife management
- grazing
- Arizona
- beef cattle
- birds
- conservation
- bird-banding
- Library Collection RecordWildlife water developments have been constructed and maintained throughout the arid western United States to benefit big game and upland gamebird populations. There is debate, however, over possible…Publication Date 2000-05-01
- drinkers
- birds of prey
- water resources
- game birds
- coyotes
- predator-prey relationships
- wildlife management
- Arizona
- carnivores
- desert ecology
- raptors
- predator-prey relationships
- ungulates
- wildlife management
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2000-04-01
- semiarid grasslands
- soil chemistry
- soil physical properties
- semi-desert scrub
- relict soils
- Arizona
- plant communities
- botanical composition
- Library Collection RecordThe Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information. Migrated from…Publication Date 2000-02-01
- botanical composition
- Arizona
- riparian buffers
- Tamarix
- Tamarix ramosissima
- willows
- woody plants
- Library Collection RecordCovers the decisions of the Board of Supervisors with regards to urban development into desert grasslands.Publication Date 2000
- urban development
- urban planning
- Arizona
- desert grasslands
- Southern Arizona
- Sprawl
- Tucson
- Library Collection RecordThis document was complied to highlight the crucial role ranching can play in conservation efforts in Pima County. It includes sections covering the history and current practice of ranching in…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Cattle Ranching
- conservation
- open space
- United States
- urban planning
- Library Collection RecordThis map describes rangeland condition across the Altar Valley using seven categories that incorporate soil stability, biotic integrity and watershed function.Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- biotic integrity
- rangeland condition
- soil stability
- United States
- watershed function
- Library Collection RecordThis document is made up of numerous resource reports that were submitted to the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan Steering Committee regarding the natural and cultural resources of the Altar Valley…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- Southern Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis map provides information on land ownership within the Altar Valley.Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis map presents the Altar Valley as a patchwork of ecological sites, the basic mapping unit used for rangeland inventory. Each ecological site represents a unique type of rangeland that has the…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- ecological sites
- rangeland inventory
- United States
- Library Collection RecordA synthesis of resource assessments, this report details the unique characteristics that make the Altar Valley of special conservation importance including the highest number of priority vulnerable…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis map provides the location of wells, tanks, dams, grazing allotments, study areas, fences, roads and pipelines in the Altar Valley.Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis document represents a compilation of expert writings by professionals in the field of natural resource management. Chapters address a variety of topics, centering on the ecological and economic…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis report represents several years of field-based studies performed in Southern Arizona centering on the population dynamics of the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. The Altar Valley is among the study…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Pima County
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: This paper reports on the results of a 3-year field study of the effects of spring/summer burning and cattle grazing on wintering sparrows in the grasslands of southeastern Arizona. The…Publication Date 2000
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Avian conservation
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- desert grasslands
- grazing
- United States
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