Changes in Mountain Big Sagebrush Habitat Types following Spray Release
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Seeding Considerations in Restoring Big Sagebrush Habitat
This papcrdescribes methods of managing or seeding to restore big sagebrush communities for wildlife habitat. The focus is on three bigsagebrush subspecies, Wyomingbigsagebrush (Artemi sia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis), basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata), and mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana). Natural colonization of the native plant community ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Range Management
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0022-409X
DOI: 10.2307/3898073