Publications Of The Intermountain Forest And Range Experiment Station 1953 Through 1955 And The Northern Rocky Mountain Forest And Range Experiment Station 1951 Through 1954 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Publications of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1953 Through 1955, and the Northern Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1951 Through 1954 Publications of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1912-1952. Research Paper 29. (processed) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Pioneers traveling along the Oregon Trail from western Nebraska, through Wyoming and southern Idaho and into eastern Oregon, referred to their travel as an 800 mile journey through a sea of sagebrush, mainly big sagebrush ( Artemisia tridentata). Today approximately 50 percent of the sagebrush sea has given way to agriculture, cities and towns, and other human developments. What remains is further fragmented by range management practices, creeping expansion of woodlands, alien weed species, and the historic view that big sagebrush is a worthless plant. Two ideas are promoted in this report: (1) big sagebrush is a nursing mother to a host of organisms that range from microscopic fungi to large mammals, and (2) many range management practices applied to big sagebrush ecosystems are not science based.

"United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region"