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Range Study

imageID: 24079
Description: Range Study
Keywords: grasses
brush
fence line effect
Organisms: juniper
Photographer: E.C. Crafts
Original collection id: 351956
Media: Black & White Print
Collection: Sierra Ancha Historical Images
Quality: 3
Location: Apache NF; AZ; USA
Date(mm/dd/yyyy): 09/18/1937
Comments: Luna Valley Gateless Area. Fenced 1924. Overgrazed and over utilized blue grama woodland range outside plot. Note prominence of rocky floor, absence of flowerstalks, and juniper injured by browsing. Within plot grama, bluestem, and ragweed are dominant. Ground cover density about the same within and without the plot. Luna Valley community allotment Luna RD.
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. Sierra Ancha Experimental Forest historical photographs. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2007-0006


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