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Sample Plot S3-A

imageID: 18770
Description: Sample Plot S3-A
Keywords: grazing
understory
animal damage
sample plot
Photographer: G. A. Pearson
Original collection id: 049213
Media: black and white print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Copyright: 1920
Location: Tusayan National Forest; AZ; United States
Date(mm/dd/yyyy): 08/28/1920
Comments: Coconino Sample Plot S3A; Just outside of fence north of PSP S3A. Bare area around stumps cut 12 years ago. Sheep range. Artemesia mexicana, Bouteloua spp. (ann), Cerasus spp., Festuca arizonica, Hymenarys floridusus, Lupinus parviflorus, Senecio spp., Sitanion spp., etc. These plants are relished by sheep ad are therefore closely cropped. Bunchgrass in distance is lightly grazed. Practicaly all seedlings of 1919 crop killed by grazing while less than 2 years old. S3A probably Q6F.
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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