Lanterna Rally

Author: Pat O. Currie

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-19

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780366776207

Excerpt from Response of Seeded Ranges to Different Grazing Intensities in the Ponderosa Pine Zone of Colorado Valleys of open grassland parks interspersed among the mountains of the ponderosa pine zone of Colorado are suitable for the production of livestock. Unfortunately, during the late 1800's and early 1900's many of these grassland parks were cultivated and attempts made to raise row [crops or hay. Soil often too infertile to produce adequate yields, short growing season, erratic moisture, and the depressed economic conditions of the 1930's combined to cause many farming ventures to fail. As a result, many cultivated areas were abandoned. On others overgrazing by livestock depleted the native 'cover. Natural recovery through plant succession might take many years to reach a point where good, native forage species are abundant on these lands. Seeding with introduced grasses and legumes, however, can con vert depleted range or abandoned farmlands to productive range quite economically in 2 to 3 years (fig. 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.