Some Developments Related to Seeding Western Rangelands

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Seeding Western rangelands is generally a difficult undertaking because of limiting climatic, soil, and/or topographic features. The good sites with a favorable climate are in cultivated croplands. Original plant productivity has been reduced on millions of acres of Western rangeland by past grazing abuses, brush invasion, droughts, and past attempts to cultivate non-arable land. In many areas the degradation is so complete that seeding is required to restore at least a portion of the former productivity. The author presents selected results of recent studies. From northern New Mexico to the State of Washington large acreages infested with big sagebrush have been converted to crested wheatgrass. Much of this is accomplished by plowing and seeding with a one-way wheatland-type plow and seeder. In Colorado, Hyder and Bement have developed a system of seedbed preparation that involves moldboard plowing and packing ridges.

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