The purpose of this progress report is to provide an update of recently completed and ongoing research programs at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center (EOARC), located in Bums. Oregon. Oregon State University's Agricultural Experiment Station (AES) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) jointly fund the...
Currently, the of lack information on shrub reestablishment following fire and the wide variability in rates of recovery have lead to uncertainty in using prescribed burning as a management tool in the mountain big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ssp. vaseyana (Rydb.) Beetle) alliance. This study examined the recovery of shrub...
The effect of seedbed preparation on the emergence and survival of winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata (Gueldenstaedt)) and squirreltail (Elymus elymoides (Raf.) Swezey)) seedlings was determined, while quantifying nutritional changes through the dormant season for four range species. In November of 2004 twenty 9m x 8m plots were randomly prepared with one...