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JOURNN OF fMNGE MNWGEMENl= Published bimonthly-January, March, May, TABLE OF CONTENTS: Vol. 31, No. 2, March 1978 July, September, November-by the Society for Range Management 2760 West Fifth Avenue ARTICLES Denver, Colorado 80204 a4 Food, Fiber, Fuel, and Fun from Rangelands by Thadis W . Box Copyright @ 1978 by the 87 Taxonomic Determination, Distribution, and Ecological Indicator Values of Sage- Society for Range Management brush within the Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands of the Great Basin by N. E. West, Managing Editor R. J. Tausch, K. H. Rea, and P. T. Tueller DAVID A. SMITH 2760 West Fifth Avenue 92 Nutrition and Production of Domestic Sheep Managed as Manipulators of Big Denver, Colo. 80204 Game Habitat by John C. Malechek, Kurt J. Kotter, and Charles H. Jensen Editor Vegetation Response to Contour Furrowing by J. Ross Wight, E. L. Neff, and REX D. PIEPER R. J. Soiseth Dep. Animal and Range Science New Mexico State Univeristy 101 Distribution of Food Reserves in Snowberry (Symphoricarpus oreophilus) by Las Cruces, N. Mex. 88003 Melvin R. George and C. M. McKell Book Review Editor 105 Factors Influencing Productivity of Two Mule Deer Herds in Utah by Jordan PAT 0. CURRIE Rocky Mountain Forest and C. Pederson and K. T. Harper Range Experiment Station 111 Predation on Range Sheep with No Predator Control by J. Kent McAdoo and 240 West Prospect Street Fort Collins, Colo. 80521 Donald A. Klebenow Copy Editor 115 Use of Infiltration Equation Coefficients as an Aid in Defining Hydrologic Impacts PATRICIA G. SMITH of Range Management Schemes by Gerald F. Gifford 2760 West Fifth Avenue Denver, Colo. 80204 118 Estimation of Plant Biomass from Quadrit Data Using the Lognormal Distri- bution by Gary C. White Editorial Board 1978-78 I21 Effects of Removal of Standing Dead Material on Growth of Agropyron spicufum RAYMOND EVANS, Reno, Nev. by Ronald H. Sauer CLIFFORD E. LEWIS, Marianna, Fla. Germination Responses of Three Forage Grasses to Different Concentrations of JOHN MALECHEK, Logan, Utah 123 C. J. SCIFRES, College Station, Tex. Six Salts by T. R. Miller and S. R. Chapman 1977-79 125 An Economic Analysis of Retention of Yearlings on Range and Potential Effects on JAMES 0. KLEMMEDSON, Tucson, Ariz. Beef Production by David B. Hewlett and John P. Workman GEORGE W. SCOTTER, Edmonton, Alta. M. JOE TRLICA, Fort Collins, Colo. 129 Will Mesquite Control with 2,4,5-T Enhance Grass Production? by B. E. Dahl, J. ROSS WIGHT, Logan, Utah R. E. Sosebee, J. P. Goen, and C. S. Brumley 1978-80 DONALD A. KLEBENOW, Reno, Nev. 132 Relationships of Soil Salinity, Ash, and Crude Protein in Atripkx canescens by JAMES T. NICHOLS, North Platte, Neb. Bruce L. Welch MICHAEL D. PITT, Vancouver, B.C. 134 by Carol RONALD E. SOSEBEE, Lubbock, Tex. Food Habits of the Black-tailed Prairie Dog in Western South Dakota A. Summers and Raymond L. Linder INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIPTION is by membership in the. 137 Longevity of Leafy Spurge Seeds in the Soil Following Various Control Programs Society for Range Management. by G. G. Bowes and A. G. Thomas LIBRARY or other INSTITUTIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS, on a calendar year basis, are $22.00 postpaid to all 141 Sprouting and Carbohydrate Reserves of Two Wildland Shrubs Following Partial countries. Payment from outside the United States should Defoliation by E. Earl Willard and Cyrus M. McKell be remitted in US dollars by international money order or draft on a New York bank. 145 Elemental Concentrations in Native Range Grasses from the Northern Great Plains of Montana by Frank F. Munshower and Dennis E. Neuman CHANGE OF ADDRESS notices should be sent to the Managing Editor, 2760 West Fifth Ave., Denver, CO 80204, TECHNICAL NOTES no later than the first day of the month of issue. Copies lost 149 Frequency of Endomycorrhizal Infection in Grazed and Ungrazed Blue Grama due to a change of address cannot be replaced unless Plants by Patrick E. Reece and Charles D. Bonham adequate notice is given. To assure uninterrupted service, provide your local postmaster with a Change of Address 151 Development and Evaluation of Anti-coyote Electric Fencing by N. L. Gates, J. E. Order (POD Form 3575), indicating thereon to guarantee Rich, D. D. Godtel, and C. V. Hulet forwarding postage for second class mail. POSTOFFICE: Please return entire journal with address change. VIEWPOINT BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE, concerning subscrip- 154 The State Land Trust, Its Retention or Elimination by G. Wesley Burnett tions, advertising, reprints, back issues, and related mat- ters, should be addressed to the Managing Editor, 2760 BOOK REVIEWS West Fifth Ave., Denver, CO 80204. 156 Wildjlowers across the Prairie by F. R. Vance, J. R. Jowsey, and J. S. McLean; EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE, concerning manu- Soil Erosion: Prediction and Control edited by George R. Foster; A Manual oj Ghana scripts or other editorial matters, should be addressed to Grasses by R. Rose Innes. the Editor, Dep. Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces 88003. THESES INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS appear each year in the 158 Range Management Theses 1968-1975 edited by Rex D. Pieper March issue; copies of these instructions are available from the editor. COVER: This new cover design is being used on a trial basis. The editor would appreciate comments SECOND CLASS POSTAGE paid at Denver, Colorado. on it. Food, Fiber, Fuel, and Fun from Rangelands THADIS M’. BOX It has been a pleasure to serve as the thirtieth president of the These definitions stressing livestock production and grazing Society for Range Management. In the beginning our Society from rangelands were the standard concept and definition of was a small collection of dedicated people trained in forestry, mnge until about the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. At that time animal science, agronomy, and ecology, and bound together rangeland began to be discussed as a particular classification of only by a concern for and dedication to the management of the land with equivalent standings to that of forests or cropland. country’s rangelands. In three brief decades it has developed Most authors admitted that there were no specific characteristics into a group of well over 5,000 people with varying degrees of that differentiated rangelands from either croplands or forests. training in the field of range management. We, as a Society, Rangelands were described as being not suitable for croplands speak for about 40% of the earth’s surface. We are the major or intensive forests, their use being limited by aridity, rocks, professional group that must produce the food, fiber, fuel, fun, shallow soils, rough topography, poor drainage, cold tem- all the goods and services that society wants from rangelands. peratures, and other physical features. Intensively managed It may seem ludicrous that the thirtieth president of the pastures were also considered as range. Although most authors Society for Range Management should begin his discussion were reluctant to define rangelands, their descriptions were all with a definition of rangelands. However that may be, the similar. Range was recognized as a kind of land that can produce concepts of rangelands are changing so radically today that a many goods and services. It is managed most effectively using brief discussion is necessary. principles of ecology rather than intensive agriculture or agro- The terms “range” and “rangelands” are of relatively recent nomic techniques (Stoddart, Smith, and Box 1975; Blaisdell et origin. When John Wesley Powell (1878) wrote his treatise on al. 1970; Colbert 1977). the western rangelands, he did not even use the term, but talked The definition of range management has also changed over of “pasturage lands.” Soon after the turn of the century, the years. When I was a student the definition I learned was from descriptions of rangeland began to appear. The one included in Stoddart and Smith (1955). Range management meant ob- the Senate report on the western range (U.S. Senate 1936) was taining maximum livestock production from native vegetation. typical: We were trained to produce a forage crop-native plants-and harvest it with animals-cattle, sheep, or goats. Range manage- The western range is largely open and unfenced, with control stock by ment today is defined as the science and art of optimizing the herding; when fenced, relatively large units are enclosed. It supports with returns from rangeland in those combinations most desired by few exceptions only native grasses and other forage plants, is never fertilized or cultivated, and can in the main be restored and maintained only through and suitable to society through the manipulation of range controlof grazing. It consists almost exclusively of lands which, because of ecosystems (Stoddart, Smith, and Box 1975). Range manage- relatively meager precipitation and other adverse climatic conditions, or ment is involved in the production of many different goods and roughtopography or lack of water for irrigation, cannot successfully be used services, of which only one may be livestock products. for any other form of agriculture. In contrast the improved pastures of the East and Middlewest receive an Unfortunately, many people still consider range as a use of abundant precipitation, are ordinarily fenced, utilize introduced forage land and not land itself. They equate range with livestock species, . cultivation for other crops, and are often fertilized to increase grazing. Even some agencies managing rangelands discuss the productivity, and are renewed following deterioration. multiple uses of the land as timber, water, range, recreation, This was the prevailing concept of rangelands prior to the etc. Timber, water, and recreation are all goods or services and formation of the Society for Range Management. outputs of land. Range is the land itself. It can be used for the Several authors gave definitions of range management in the production of timber, forage, water, etc.

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