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Effects of Historic Livestock Grazing on Vegetation at Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico

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M Lisa Floyd, Thomas L Fleischner, David D Hanna, and Paul Whitefield, Effects of Historic Livestock Grazing on Vegetation at Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico: .

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Livestock grazing is the most ubiquitous land use in western North America, yet it rarely has been studied in a controlled manner because of the lack of large areas free of grazing. We compared the ecological effects of three grazing treatments—long-term protection, short-term protection, and currently grazed—at Chaco Culture National Historic Park in northern New Mexico. Chaco has a long history of human habitation and is now one of the largest grazing exclosures in the American West. We studied the effects of livestock grazing on the cover of plants, soil crusts, and plant species richness at six sites with different potential natural vegetation. Species richness was higher under long-term protection than under current grazing at [...]

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