| imageID: | 18686 |
| Description: | Heavy soil is packed by overgrazing |
| Keywords: | grazing regeneration soil |
| Organisms: | pine |
| Photographer: | G. A. Pearson |
| Original collection id: | 043856 |
| Media: | black and white print |
| Collection: | Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs |
| Quality: | 3 |
| Copyright: | 1919 |
| Location: | Fort Valley Experimental Forest; AZ; United States |
| Date(yyyy): | 1919 |
| Comments: | Treeless clay flat. The heavy soil which is packed by overgrazing is unfavorable to the establishment of pine seedlings. Seedlings of all ages are much more numerous in the weed clumps than on the bare ground. This opening would restock in time if sheep grazing were eliminated. |
| Citation: | Use of this image is governed by Creative Commons CC BY. If you use the image, please include the following citation: Olberding, Susan D.; Huebner, Daniel P.; Edminster, Carleton B. 2007. Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2007-0005 |
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