TABLE of CONTENTS: Vol. 40, No. 2, March 1987 ARTICLES 98 Hesident’S Address by Frank E
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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Vol. 40, No. 2, March 1987 ARTICLES 98 hesident’s Address by Frank E. Busby Digestion 100 Passage Rates, Rumen Fermentation, and Weight Change in Protein Supple- I mented Grazing Cattle by M.B. Judkins, J.D. Wallace, M.L. Galyean, L.J. Krysl, and E.E. Parker 105 Examination of Methods for Estimating Rate of Passage in Grazing Steers by R.C. Cochran, D.C. Adams, M.L. Galyean, and J.D. Wallace 109 Frequency Sampling in Microhistological Studies: An Alternative Model by Byron K. Williams Forage Selection 113 Variation in Utilization of Big Sagebrush Accessions by Wintering Sheep by Bruce L. Welch, E. Durant McArthur, and Ronald L. Rodriguez Revegetation and Reclamation 116 -Subterranean Clover on Southern Pine Range: Potential Beneflts to Game by Kenneth F. Ribbeck, Mark K. Johnson, and Ken Dancak 119 Effects of Hay and Straw Mulches on the Establishment of Seeded Grasses and Legumes on Rangeland and a Coal Strip Mine by William J. McGinnies 122 Revegetation of Oil Well Reserve pits in West Texas by Mark L. McFarland, Darrell N. Ueckert, and Steve Hartmann 128 Impact of Bentonite Mining on Selected Arthropods by Carolyn Hull Seig, Daniel W. Uresk, and Richard M. Hansen 132 Growth of Introduced Temperate Legumes in the Edwards Plateau and South Tezas Plains by E.C. Holt and M.R. Haferkamp Ecology 136 Increase in Number of Dominant Plants and Dominance-Classes on a Grassland in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert by R.P. Gibbens and R.F. Beck 139 Carbohydrates in Leafy Spurge Roots as Influenced by Environment by Rodney G. Lym and Calvin G. Messersmith Herbicides 144 Effect of Herbicide Safeners on Sand and Little Bluestems by W. Roder, S.S. Waller, J.L. Stubbendieck, L.E. Moser, and A.R. Martin 148 Using Leaf Fluorescence for Evaluating Atrazine Tolerance of Three Perennial Warm-season Grasses by Caroline C. Bahler, Lowell E. Moser, and Kenneth P. Vogel Plant Physiology 151 Variations in Physiological Metabolites and Chlorophyll in Sexual Phenotypes of ‘Rincon’ Fourwing Saltbush by Arthur R. Tiedemann, E. Durant McArthur, and D. Carl Freeman Grazing Effects and Potential 156 Growth and Reproduction of Grasses Heavily Grazed under Rest-Rotation Man- agement by Richard E. Eckert, Jr., and John S. Spencer Pubfbhed bimonthly-January, March, May, July, 160 An Evahmtion of Grazing Intensity Itiuences on California Annual Range by September, November R.E. Rosiere Copyright 1987 by the Society tar Range Manrgb 166 Understory Herbage Productionof Major Soils witi the Black Hills of South m Dakota by D.L. Bennett, G.D. Lemme, and P.D. Evenson INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTION Is by membership in Germination lf4!3TlTUTlONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS on a calendar 170 Temperature and Scarification Effects on Germtition of Prostrate Bundleflower year basir are $55.00 for the United States postpaM Seeds by Timothy E. Fulbright and Kay S. Flenniken and the Society for Range Management. LIBRARY or other $55.00 for other countrI6s.post- 173 Germination Response of Three Globemallow Species to Chemical Treatment by paid. PaymentfromoutaktetheUnitudStateashould Timothy E. Roth, J.L. Holechek, and Mohammed Y. Hussain be remitted In US dollan by international money 175 Effects of Temperature, Light, and Scaritication on Germination of Brownseed order or draft on a New York bank. Paspalum Reds by Kay S. Flenniken and Timothy E. Fulbright BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE, concerning rub 180 Light Requirement for Seed Germination of Payson Sedge by Lucinda Haggas, ecriptlonr, advertieing, reprints, back Ieeuee. and Ray W. Brown, and Robert S. Johnston related matters. should be addreewd to the Manat? ing Editor. 2780 Weet Fifth Avenue, Denver, &lo. 80204. TECHNICAL NOTES EDlTORIALCORRESPONDENCE conwmklgmanu- 185 Survival Analysis of Single and Twin Lambs by Jerry H. Scrivner, Martin R. Dally, scripmorothereditorlaImattem,rhouldbeaddreewd to the Editor. 2780 West Flfth Avenue, Denver, Colo. and Walter E. Howard 80204. 187 Procedure for Fecal Cuticle Analysis of Herbivore Diets by E.J. Stevens, Susan J. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS appear on the Stevens, R.N. Gates, K.M. Eskridge, and S.S. Waller Inelde back cover of each iseue. A Style Manual lr aleo available from the Society for Range MarUgb ment at the above addresa @$1.25 for rlngle coplea; BOOK REVIEWS $l.Ul each for 2 or more. 190 Experimental BehaviorialEcology and Sociobiology Edited by B. Holldobler and THE JOURNAL OF RANGE MANAGEMENT (ISSN M. Lindauer; Playing God in Yellowstone-The Destruction of America’s First C0224gX) is publlehed six tlmee yearly for $55.00 per year by the Society for Range Management, National Park by Alston Chase; Management of Pastoral Development in the 2760 West Fifth Avenue, Denver, Colo. 80204. third Worldby Steven Sandford; Elephant* L&es-Gras._+Grazers: Relarionships Between SECOND CLASS POSTAGE paid at Denver, Colo. Climate, Soils, Vegetation and Large Herbivores in a Semiarid Savanna Ecosystem PDSTMABTER:RewmenBreJounulwtthad&eee chmge-RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED-to (Tsavo, Kenya) by Willem van Wijngaarden; and Agroforestry in the Southern Society for Range Management, 2780 West Fifth United States edited by Norwin E. Linnartz and Mark K. Johnson. Avenue, Denver, &lo. 802M. MISCELLANEOUS The Journal of Range ManagsmaM serves 127 Position Announcements, also on page 135 asa forum for the presentation and discussion 165 Deadline Schedule of facts, ideas, and phiiosophiea pertaining to the study, management, and use of range lands and their several resources. Accord- ingly, all material published herein is signed and reflects the individual views of the authors and is not necessarliy an official position of the Society. Manuscripts from any source- nonmembers 80 well as members-are wet- come and will be given every consideration by the editors. Submissions need not be of a technical nature, but should be germane to the broad field of range management. Editor- ASSODtATSLDtTORS BRUCE ROUNDY ial comment by an individual is also welcome 0. FRED GIFFORD 525 Biological Sclencea and subject to acceptance by the editor, will Dept. of Range Wildlife. and Forestry East Building, Univ. Arizona Tucson, AZ 55721 be published as a “Viewpoint.” Unlvenlty of Nevada Rena. Nev. 89508 NEIL E. WEST THOMAS A. HANLEY Range Science Department Forestry Sciencea Lab. Utah State University UMC 52 Box 909 Logan, Utah 84322 Mm Juneau, Ala&a ggeo2 PETER V. JACKSON III LARRY M. WHITE 275tl Weat Fifth Avenue RICHARD H. HART USDA ARS Denver, Colorado 80204 USDA-ARS S. Plalnr Range Reeearch Station 8408 Hildmth Rd. 2ooo 15th st. Edftor Cheyenne, Wyoming 82008 Woodward, Oklahoma 73801 PATRICIA (3. SMITH Society for Range Marwement N. THOMPSON HOBBS RICHARD S. WHITE 27eo weet Fifth Avenue Colorado Div. of WIMIIfe USDA-ARS Denver, Colomdo 80204 317 w. Proepect Route 1, Box 2021 Fort Colllnr. Colomdo 80525 Mile8 City, Montana 58301 I)ooLRevteWBW GRANT A. HARRIS W.K. LAUENROTH STEVE WHISENANT Fore&y and Range Management Department of Range Science 401 Widtsoe Building Waehington State Univemlty Colorado State University Brigham Young Univ. Pullman, Washington gSl54-5410 Fort Collins. Colorado 80522 Provo, Utah 84802 HOWARD MORTON JAMES YOUNG 2ooo E. Allen Road USDA ARS Tucson, Arizona 55719 Renewable Reeource tinter Rena. Nevada 88512 Go for the Gold FEE BUSBY It has been a privilege to serve the Society for Range Manage- most important or the best economic or social use. The Society for ment as President this past year. In this paper, I would like to share Range Management must take its rightful place as the organization my thoughts about the importance of the world’s rangelands to the that speaks for the proper ear.? of the rangeland resource regardless survival of ma” the challenges I believe the Society for Range of which multiple uses may be occurring at any given time. This is Management must address if rangelands are going to meet the not t” say that we must turn our backs on livestock grazing as a “se demands placed on them by the people of the world. of rangeland or pastoralists as key members of the range manage- ment team. We must increase our attention to other rangeland uses The Importance of Rangelands and users. This is necessary for the well-being of the land and the Rangelands of the world arc renewable resources vital to the people who “se the land. survival of human and animal populations. Depending upon Our number one priority, in fact our moral obligation as profes- whose definition of rangeland one uses, rangelands occupy between sional range managers, is the conservation of rangeland soil 45 and 50 percent of the land area of this planet. Large expanses of resources. Accelerated soil erosion can result in the loss of poten- rangeland arc found in Africa, Asia (particularly in the Soviet tial rangeland production and cause off-site siltation and sedimen- Union and China), Australia, Central America, Europe, the Mid- tation. When this occurs we lose the ~“rrcnt productivity of the dle East, North America, and South America. In the United States, land for many uses, but we also lose opportunities for future “se. Canada and Mexico, where the profession of range management The value of rangelands as a so”rce of water is of worldwide started in the early 1900s. between 40 and 45 percent of the land importance. Vast quantities of precipitation fall annually on these area is classified as rangeland. lands. Much of this water infiltrates into the soil and is either used The principal characteristics of rangelands arc (I) a natural for plant growth, stored in underground aquifers, or flows into a vegetation of predominantly grasses, grass-like plants, herbs, and stream system through a spring. However, some of the precipita- shrubs; (2) an evolution closely associated with grazing by wild tion does not infiltrate into the soil, but runs off over the surface of animals in the precivilization state; and (3) a suitability for ecologi- the soil causing erosion.