| imageID: | 21697 |
| Description: | Cooperative Goat Range Study |
| Keywords: | grazing personnel erosion grasses |
| Organisms: | oak goats |
| Photographer: | G.E. Glendening |
| Original collection id: | 421156 |
| 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.3(Open); this illustrates a typical stand of turbinella oak and buckbrush (Ceanothus greggii) with some sideoats grama in the herbaceous understory. On a steep slope with rocky granite soil; this area is grazed by goats only and a fair cover of mixed grassses still remains but the soil is unstable and subject to active erosion. |
| 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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