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Cooperative Goat Range Study

imageID: 21696
Description: Cooperative Goat Range Study
Keywords: grazing
personnel
erosion
Organisms: oak
goats
Photographer: G.E. Glendening
Original collection id: 421155
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Location: Skull Valley; AZ; USA
Date(mm/dd/yyyy): 04/08/1942
Comments: Medd Ranch near Skull Valley, AZ. Transect No.4 (Open); area grazed by goats; turbinella oak type with reasonably good stand of curly mesquite and blue grama; turbinella oak has been closely browsed; herbaceous vegetation has been grazed moderately; soil is eroding only in gaps between grass sod; this area is grazed only by 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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