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Forage Quality Comparison Of Burned And Nonburned Aspen Communities, Deborah L. Blank
Forage Quality Comparison Of Burned And Nonburned Aspen Communities, Deborah L. Blank
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The objectives of this study were to assess the effects of prescribed burning on herbaceous and browse forage quality in the aspen forest type for elk and domestic sheep.
Plant samples of selected forage species were taken from burned and nonburned plots within three different prescribed burns in southeastern Idaho. These samples were analyzed for in vitro dry matter digestibility, crude protein, calcium and phosphorus. Data were analyzed using the analysis of variance.
There was little improvement in forage quality as a result of prescribed burning, with some reduction in quality in 1983 exhibited by pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens). …