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reproduction killed by grazing

imageID: 21887
Description: reproduction killed by grazing
Keywords: animal damage
deer
overgrazed
Organisms: sheep
ponderosa pine
Photographer: G. A. Pearson
Original collection id: 440031
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Fort Valley Experimental Forest historical photographs
Quality: 3
Location: Fort Valley Exp. Forest; AZ; USA
Date(mm/yyyy): 09/1945
Comments: Virgin stand in which most of 1919 reproduction was killed by sheep prior to 1925. Area was fenced in 1930; since then deer have increased greatly and are now eating terminals out of 75% of seedlings each Spring in June; Sect 24 east side of Fort Valley.
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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