The Western Range: Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture Transmitting in Response to Senate Resolution No. 289 : a Report on the Western Range - a Great But Neglected Natural ResourceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1936 - 620 pages |
Contents
The major range problems and their solutionA résumé__ | 1 |
The virgin range | 71 |
The white mans toll | 81 |
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acres cent acres administration annual Arizona average black grama Boise River bunchgrass cattle cent acres cent climate conservation cost creosotebush crop agriculture depletion classes drought economic erosion excessive stocking farm favorable Federal floods forage depletion forage plants forage production forage value Forest Service grazing capacity grazing districts herbaceous herds homestead Idaho improvements increased Indian lands irrigation Mexico million acres Montana mountain national forests national-forest ranges numbers of livestock open forests overgrazing overstocking palatable piñon-juniper Plains plant cover ponderosa pine present range private owners private ownership problems public domain public lands public ownership rainfall ranch range area range country range depletion range feed range forage range lands range livestock range management range resource range types reduced region restoration result run-off sagebrush sheep short-grass silt soil Southern desert shrub stockmen submarginal supplemental feed tall-grass Texas tion Utah vegetation virgin range watershed West western range wildlife