Managing Semidesert Ranges of the Southwest, Circular 456

Series

Circular

Collection name

NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1889-Present

Date

1974-04

Decade

1970s

Author

Herbel, Carlton H.

Stegler, Robert E.

Gould, Walter L.

Subject (LCSH)

Range management--Southwest, New

Subject (NALT)

range management

Southwestern United States

Table of contents

Introduction

Natural hazards to range plants

Droughts occur often

Brush invasion reduces grass stands

Rodents and rabbits can prevent improvement

How to control brush

Mesquite

Creosotebush and tarbush

Shinnery oak

Seeding presents problems

How to seed range plants

Species to seed

Seeding rates and dates

How to manage new seedings

Should you fertilize range plants?

Meeting nutritional needs on the range

Chemical composition of forage plants

Supplemental feeding

How to manage grazing

Distribute livestock over the range

Graze the proper kind, class, and age of livestock

Protect perennials during growth

Keep grazed plants growing

Use grazing strategies

Plan for long-term benefits

Managing poisonous-plant problems

How to prevent livestock poisoning

Use wild water

Improving game habitat

Range plants as ornaments

The ranch as a system

Scientific names of range plants

Acknowledgments

Extent

50 pages

Notes

Circular containing information on managing range land for livestock grazing in the southwest

Original publisher

New Mexico State University

Cooperative Extension Service

Place of publication

Las Cruces (N.M.)

Frequency

frequency varies

Digital publisher

New Mexico State University Library

Source

NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES)

Language

English

Type

Text

Format

application/pdf

Medium (AAT)

newsletters

Genre (AAT)

periodicals

Access rights

Open to re-use

Metadata cataloger

Bramlett, Suzanne

Schneider, Ingrid

Roth, Michael

Digital identifier

UAAPc000456.pdf