The use of brush management methods: A Texas landowner survey

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 284-291

  Kreuter, Urs P ^a   Amestoy, Heidi E ^b   Kothmann, Mort M ^a   Ueckert, Darrell N ^c   McGinty, W Allan ^d   Cummings, Scott R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas Agricultural Experiment Station ^*  (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Texas Cooperative Extension   (United States)

Author keywords

Brush Busters; Brush control; Information dissemination; Landowner participation; Rangeland management; Technology adoption

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; LAND MANAGEMENT; MECHANICAL CONTROL; RANGELAND; WEED CONTROL;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS ASHEI; OPUNTIA; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA;

EID: 22744450666     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2005)58[284:TUOBMM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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