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peer-reviewed research article

Chaparral shrub control as influenced by grazing, herbicides and fire

authors

Alfred H. Murphy, University of California
Oliver A. Leonard, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 28(1):10-13. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v028n01p10. January 1974.

Summary

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Best control of chaparral shrubs on range-land at Hopland Field Station has been achieved with the use of herbicides. In both grazed and ungrazed areas, chemical control reduced the brush to less than 1% of the plant cover within four years and maintained a very low level for the 14-year period of the experiment. Grazing without other controls had little influence on the results, except for a re-occurrence of poison oak in ungrazed areas. Fire reduced the composition of brush for the first two years, but peaked out in the sixth year with a gradual decline thereafter.

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