Author: Cynthia McArthur
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A documented case history of riparian grazing at Oregon State University's Soap Creek Ranch was conducted from 1999 to 2001. Impacts of four different riparian grazing treatments were evaluated. Emphasis was placed on investigating the relationship between riparian cattle use and water quality. Through a series of carefully designed and replicated measurements, each grazing treatment was evaluated on how it affected (1) riparian forage grass utilization; (2) woody shrub cover and density; (3) streambank vegetative cover at key water access points; and (4) total coliforms and E. coli concentrations as an indicator of water quality. Average stubble height measurements on Festuca arundinacea, did not adequately represent riparian livestock impacts. Shrub density and percent cover did not change significantly when cows had access to the riparian zone. No differences were measured between water gaps open to cattle vs. those closed to cattle until the end of the second year of riparian grazing. Total coliforms and E. coli bacteria concentrations changed dramatically throughout the two-year study. Efforts should be made however to limit cattle access to Soap Creek in the fall. During this time, cattle linger in and around the creek and occasionally defecate directly into the water.
Author: Stephen G. Leonard
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This document presents information from various land managers and researchers to guide livestock management in riparian areas using their unique responsiveness to accomplish management objectives. An ecosystem approach, in which riparian areas are considered as part of a larger landscape, is used. Development of site-specific grazing prescriptions based on the function, capability, and potential of the site is discussed, and examples of grazing treatments are provided.
Author: David A. Koehler
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This annotated bibliography contains 1,905 citations from professional journals, symposia, workshops, proceedings, technical reports, and other sources. The intent of this compilation was to: (1) assemble, to the extent possible, all available and accessible publications relating to riparian management within a single source or document; (2) provide managers, field biologists, researchers, and others, a point of access for locating scientific literature relevent to their specific interest; and (3) provide, under one cover, a comprehensive collection of annotated publications that could dessiminate basic information relative to the status of our knowledge.
Author: Peter F. Ffolliott
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2003-07-28
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0203497759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The demand for water resulting from massive population and economic growth in the southwestern U.S. overwhelmed traditional uses of riparian areas. As a consequence, many of these uniquely-structured ecosystems have been altered or destroyed. Within recent years people have become increasingly aware of the many uses and benefits of riparian zones a