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Activities Of Domestic Sheep On Central Utah Ranges, J. Daniel Rodgers
Activities Of Domestic Sheep On Central Utah Ranges, J. Daniel Rodgers
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The range sheep industry, economically important to Utah and to the United States, produces needed food and fiber from much of the less productive land. Improved management will depend on more knowledge of the range ecosystem. Research to determine the time spent by sheep in activities of differing energy demands and to determine what factors affect sheep activity was completed on Utah ranges.
The research was conducted in central Utah on foothill range near Eureka and on mountain range near Scofield. Rambouillet sheep were loosely herded on the sagebrush-aspen areas on mountain range and were unherded on foothill range where …