| imageID: | 21692 |
| Description: | Cooperative Goat Range Study |
| Keywords: | grasses animal damage overgrazed |
| Organisms: | oak |
| Photographer: | G.E. Glendening |
| Original collection id: | 421150 |
| Media: | Black & White Print |
| Collection: | Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs |
| Quality: | 3 |
| Location: | Kirkland; AZ; USA |
| Date(mm/dd/yyyy): | 04/07/1942 |
| Comments: | Young Ranch near Kirkland AZ. Transect No.5 (Open); area grazed by goats and cattle; this picture illustrates typical condition on semi-permanent goad bedground; perennial grasses are all gone; snakeweed is closely grazed and goats appear to make considerable use of tender regrowth on this plant; turbinella oak and skunkbush (Rhus trilobata) have been damaged some by close grazing and by being smashed down by the goats; horehound (Marrubium vulgare) is increasing and is typical of these areas; entire ground surface in vicinity of this bedground covered by fecal pellets. |
| 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 |
Your help is appreciated. If you see an image that has any inaccuracy please send a note to the Archive team. Thank you!