Wild ungulate influences on the recovery of willows, black cottonwood and thin-leaf alder following cessation of cattle grazing in northeastern Oregon

Northwest Science

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-126

  Case, Richard L ^a,b   Kauffman, J Boone ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Big Lake Ranch   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK COTTONWOOD; EXCLOSURES; LIVESTOCK REMOVAL; THIN-LEAF ALDER; UNGULATE; VEGETATION RECOVERY; WILLOW;

ALNUS INCANA; BETULACEAE; BOS TAURUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; SALICACEAE; SALIX; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 0030761689     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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