Vegetation maps at the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act (1934): A baseline to evaluate rangeland change after a regime shift

Rangelands

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-19

  Skaggs, Rhonda ^a   Edwards, Zach ^a   Bestelmeyer, Brandon T ^a   Wright, John B ^a   Williamson, Jeb ^a   Smith, Phil ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Las Cruces District Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND MANAGEMENT; LIVESTOCK; MAPPING METHOD; OVERGRAZING; RANGELAND; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL REMEDIATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951872843     PISSN: 01900528     EISSN: 1551501X     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/RANGELANDS-D-10-00031.1     Document Type: Article

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