| imageID: | 21693 |
| Description: | Cooperative Goat Range Study |
| Keywords: | grasses overgrazed |
| Photographer: | G.E. Glendening |
| Original collection id: | 421151 |
| 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.6 (Open); area grazed by goats and cattle; this plot lies on approx a 15% slope where the loose granite soil is very unstable; turbinella oak, buckbrush (Ceanothus greggii), skunkbush (Rhus trilobata), catclaw (Mimosa biucifer), snakeweed, shrubby buckwheat, blue grama, and sideoaks grama forn the principal vegetation cover; buckwheat and the two gram agrasses are closely grazed as has also the tender regrowth of snakeweed; the buckbrush i this area is typically grazed heavily by goats and is dying out in many places; manzanita appears not to be grazed by cattle and goats. |
| 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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