Title:

Starkey Experimental Forest and Range: fences and pastures 1987–2017

Author(s):

Starkey Ungulate Ecology Team

Publication Year:

2018

How to Cite:

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Starkey Ungulate Ecology Team. 2018. Starkey Experimental Forest and Range: fences and pastures 1987–2017. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2018-0018

Abstract:

The Starkey Experimental Forest and Range (EFR) is located 28 miles southwest of La Grande in northeast Oregon. This unique research facility includes ungulate-proof fencing enclosing 40 square miles, as well as interior fencing, to provide control of herbivory effects and the abundance and distribution of large herbivores (cattle, mule deer, and elk). The Starkey Project is a multi-year research effort starting in 1989 that relies on the fencing and resulting pastures of the EFR to measure the population responses of deer and elk to various forest and rangeland management practices commonly applied on public lands. This data publication contains a vector-based polygon file which includes all the fences and pastures on this EFR between 1987 and 2017, including 8-foot game-proof and 4-foot barbed-wire cattle fences as well as animal exclosures and enclosures larger than 1 acre. This file also includes the year of fence construction and removal, which enables the viewing of pastures and fences present for a given year. Pasture names and other relevant attributes such as perimeter and area are included.

Keywords:

fences; enclosure; exclosure; pasture; allotment; elk; mule deer; cattle; farming; biota; boundaries; structure; natural resource management & use - range management & grazing; natural resource management & use - landscape management; ecology, ecosystems, & environment - animal ecology; wildlife; wildlife - mammals; United States; Oregon; Union County; Umatilla County; Wallowa-Whitman National Forest; Starkey Experimental Forest and Range; Starkey Cattle and Horse Allotment; Blue Mountains

Related publications:

• Rowland, Mary M.; Coe, Priscilla K.; Stussy, Rosemary J.; Ager, Alan A.; Cimon, Norman J.; Johnson, Bruce K.; Wisdom, Michael J. 199810. The Starkey habitat database for ungulate research: construction, documentation, and use. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-430. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/3005
• Rowland, Mary M.; Bryant, Larry D.; Johnson, Bruce K.; Noyes, James H.; Wisdom, Michael J.; Thomas, Jack Ward. 199707. The Starkey project: history, facilities, and data collection methods for ungulate research. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-396. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agricultre, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/4752 https://doi.org/10.2737/pnw-gtr-396
• Skovlin, Jon M. 199105. Fifty years of research progress: a historical document on the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-266. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/25480 https://doi.org/10.2737/pnw-gtr-266
• Walburger, Kenric J. 2002. Twenty-Five Years of Grazing Research at Meadow Creek in the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range. Master's Thesis. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University. https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1957/29418/WalburgerKenric2002.pdf

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