Limy
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Management practices/drivers
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Description
Approximately 90 percent of the total annual production is from species that furnish quality forage to grazing animals including species such as black grama, sideoats grama, New Mexico feathergrass, western wheatgrass, winterfat, and fourwing saltbush
Resilience management
The site responds best to a system of grazing that rotates the season of use.
Submodel
Description
Continuous grazing year-long or grazing continually during the growing season will cause this site to deteriorate. Species such as black grama, sideoats grama, New Mexico feathergrass, western wheatgrass, winterfat, and fourwing saltbush will decrease. Continued deterioration of this site can cause severe erosion that would require extensive structural work and management to correct
Characteristics and indicators
Decreasers will be replaced by alkali sacaton, blue grama, inland saltgrass, broom snakeweed, and yucca. Continued deterioration of this site can cause severe erosion that would require extensive structural work and management to correct. In some areas, pinyon and juniper have invaded or have increased on this site and may appear as even-aged long-lived standsIn some areas, pinyon and juniper have invaded or have increased on this site and may appear as even-aged long-lived stands.
Resilience management
The site responds best to a system of grazing that rotates the season of use
Mechanism
Season-long grazing providing little rest and recovery for preferred grazed plants during critical growing periods, coupled with high utilization.
Mechanism
Legacy text:
"Restoration pathway resulting from the implementation of prescribed grazing."
It should be noted that prescribed grazing alone may not effectively diminish woody plants here. Brush control may also be required. Future work on this ESD should seek to clarify this.
Relevant conservation practices
| Practice | External resources |
|---|---|
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Grazing Management Plan - Applied |
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