Skip to main content

Hughes, Lee E

One of the challenges of range management is to compare one system of management with another with regard to their response to a different natural or management-induced factor. Drought and grasshoppers were dominant influences on rangelands of the southwest in the late 1980s. Drought has long been recognized as a good test of a grazing system as drought tends to magnify any weakness of management practice. The drought and subsequent grasshopper invasion of 1988 through 1990 provided a good opportunity to stress test two different grazing systems of the Arizona Strip. The two allotments examined in this paper are adjacent to each other, have similar range sites, and similar precipitation. Two major range sites occur...
ScienceBase brings together the best information it can find about USGS researchers and offices to show connections to publications, projects, and data. We are still working to improve this process and information is by no means complete. If you don't see everything you know is associated with you, a colleague, or your office, please be patient while we work to connect the dots. Feel free to contact sciencebase@usgs.gov.