Heavy Winter Grazing Reduces Forage Production: An Observation

Rangelands

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 18-21

  Galt, Dee ^a   Mendez, Greg ^b   Holechek, Jerry ^c   Joseph, James ^c  

^a Bureau of Indian Affairs ^*  (United States)

^b Bureau of Indian Affairs   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0348166526     PISSN: 01900528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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