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Vegetation monitoring at Pueblo Chemical Depot: 1999-2015

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dc.contributor.authorRondeau, Renée J., author
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, Georgia A., author
dc.contributor.authorDecker, Karin, author
dc.contributor.authorColorado Natural Heritage Program, publisher
dc.coverage.temporal1999‐2015
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-21T16:04:59Z
dc.date.available2016-06-21T16:04:59Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.descriptionPrepared for: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Colorado Fish & Wildlife Conservation Office, Pueblo Chemical Depot.
dc.descriptionMay 2016.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 92-98).
dc.description.abstractIn 1998 the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) contracted the Colorado Natural Heritage Program to set up a long‐term vegetation monitoring program on U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Pueblo County, Colorado. PCD makes up the southern portion of an important landscape conservation area – Chico Basin – and monitoring data collected here can be useful to PCD land managers as well as regional land managers. The PCD monitoring program was established to detect vegetation changes in shortgrass prairie, sandsage shrubland, and greasewood shrubland as a result of the removal of cattle grazing in 1998. Each vegetation type included areas with four different historic cattle grazing regimes: 1) grazed year‐round until 1998, 2) grazed, but not year‐round, until 1998, 3) grazed lightly (several times/year) since 1942, and 4) ungrazed since 1942. For the purpose of this study the first two regimes are considered "grazed" and the latter two regimes "ungrazed." All further reference to the "grazed" regime refers to its historical use prior to 1998. During the 1999‐2015 years of monitoring neither grazed nor ungrazed study plots discussed in this report received any livestock grazing.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/173059
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.titleVegetation monitoring at Pueblo Chemical Depot: 1999-2015
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