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Creator:: Wyffels, Samuel A.
Abstract:: This study evaluated the influence of cattle stocking density on botanical composition of diet, diet preference, and cattle performance on the Zumwalt Prairie in Northeastern Oregon. In each of two years, 192 cow-calf pairs (549.27 kg, BCS = 4.89) and 48 yearling heifers (383.34 kg, BCS = 5.02) were stratified...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ., P. Diebel, F.W. Obermiller, J. Glascock, 1997. The Oregon beef cattle industry: impact on the

Creator:: Darambazar, Enkhjargal
Abstract:: Two trials were conducted to evaluate changes in the quantity, quality, and moisture of available forage in the pasture, and shrub utilization by cattle during a 30-d late summer grazing period (Trial 1) and the effect of cow age (experience) on grazing distribution and diet composition (Trial 2) in mountain...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Diet Composition of Beef Cattle Grazing Mixed Conifer Mountain Riparian Areas Abstract approved

Creator:: Walburger, Kenric J.
Abstract:: The objectives of the experiment were to: 1) determine the relationship between overstory canopy cover and ungulate herbivory on understory production composition and diversity and 2) determine the effects of timber harvest, ungulate herbivory and season of use on botanical composition and nutritional quality of beef cattle diets. Three randomly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: larJeta c -irL ry on Understory Vetation and Con pos'tion of Beef Cattle hstrac1: Approved: Timoth4

Creator:: France, Kevin A.
Abstract:: Livestock grazing has been indirectly related to sage-grouse (centrocercus urophasianus) declines in the western United States and southern Canada; however, there is a lack of scientific research that directly relates the two. Our objective was to investigate the influence of livestock herbivory on sage-grouse nesting habitat by determining the spatial...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Oregon with pooled data from 2003 and 2004 44 INTERSPACE/UNDER-CANOPY FORAGING PATTERNS OF BEEF CATTLE

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