Photo Libraries: Increasing Perennial Grasses
Wayne Burleson has worked with rancher Don Schaules
in Montana to reclaim bare rangeland. In the right hand,
Don holds a plant dug from a pasture one year after
animals have been used to improve the health of the land.
In the left hand, he holds the same species, Western
Wheatgrass, dug on the same day from an area that
had not been grazed for three years. The plants grew
30 feet apart from each other, but the unhealthy, dying
specimen in Don's left hand has not had the invigorating
effect of planned grazing
This photo was taken in 1986 on some bare rangeland Don wanted to improve.
Here's the same area in May 1989 after Don used 600 cow-calf pairs
to revitalize the landscape and provide a healthy habitat for a perennial
grass species, Western Wheatgrass, to grow.
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