Salt Lake & San Pedro Railroad. Finally, this road was taken over by the Union Pacific. RANGE CONDITIONS IN THE EARLY DAYS During the years of the '80s and '90s the range was in excellent condition for the grazing of cattle. Few, if any, sheep were...
Vegetation on these arid ranges is composed chiefly of low shrubs and grasses belonging to what is known as the salt-desert shrub plant association. Most of these ranges are used by sheep and cattle during the winter when other ranges are covered...
grass. These changes came so slowly they were almost unnoticed. Even the invasion of Russian thistle and cheatgrass on large areas of winter range caused little apprehension. Range surveys in 1933-36 in Western Beaver County indicated that forage...
Grazing--Dixie National Forest (Utah); East Fork Sevier River (Garfield County, Utah); Research
Area on East Fork below drift fence where sod had been removed in 1937 to be used in strip sodding of Tropic Dam. Stock grazed area until June 23, picture taken August 19, 1941.
Grazing--Dixie National Forest (Utah); East Fork Sevier River (Garfield County, Utah); Research
Area on East Fork below drift fence where sod had been removed in 1937 to be used in strip sodding of Tropic Dam. Stock grazed area until June 23, picture taken August 19, 1941.
Stretch of Forest between Holcomb and Blackburns, grazed for thirty years prior to 1898 by sheep and now by cattle. The tree species are Jeffrey and western yellow pine. Angeles National Forest, California.
Range management--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Grazing; Enterprise (Washington County, Utah)
Range studies of grazing areas, Enterprise addition. Shows the heavy wooded pinon pine-cedar hills on the norhtern exposures of this proposed Enterprise addition. The foreground shows a lack of top soil due to sheet erosion, lack of grasses and...
Range management--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Grazing; Pine Valley (Washington County, Utah)
Effects of grazing by deer, Pine Valley division. Cliffrose plant, cowania, closely grazed as high as deer can reach, spring range and grazed in winter by large numbers of deer.
Range management--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Grazing; Parowan (Iron County, Utah)
Effects of grazing by deer, Parowan deer herd, browse studies. Purshia tridentata, current growth, plant heavily grazed spring of 1958 on first ridge, southeast of knoll. 4" squares on backboard.
Range management--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Grazing
Taken in Section 18, T. 36S, R. 17W, facing due west. Shows the general character of the proposed addition with many areas heavily covered with pinon pine, cedar and others, scattered with open sage brush flats. The sage brush in this picture...