Ecosystem and Wildlife Implications of Brush: Management System Designed to Improve Water Runoff and Percolation

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Title	Ecosystem and Wildlife Implications of Brush: Management System Designed to Improve Water Runoff and Percolation

Creator	Arrington, D. Albrey Conner, Richard Dugas, William Hejl, Sallie Magness, Dawn Muttiah, Ranjan Olenick, Keith Rosenthal, Wes Srinivasan, Raghavan Winemiller, Kirk O. Zinn, Michele Wilkins, Neal Amonett, Carl Bednarz, Steve Dybala, Tim Griffith, Rebecca Jarboe, Hank

Description	With the settlement of Texas and establishment of ranchers to produce cattle, there was an effort to maximize beef production. This caused serious overgrazing. In addition, there was a reduced incidence of fires across the landscape to clear out brush. These factors led to deterioration of the grazing lands and provided an opportunity for invasive intrusion by brush and other species onto the land and riparian zones. There has been a large-scale conversion from grasslands and savannahs to...

Publisher	Texas Water Resources Institute

Date	2007-11-28T14:58:39Z 2007-11-28T14:58:39Z 2002-11-01

Type	Technical Report

Identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/6141

Language	en_US

Relation	TR-201;