Crested Wheatgrass Control and Native Plant Establishment in Utah |
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| Authors: | April Hulet Bruce A. Roundy Brad Jessop |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Graduate student, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA;2. Professor, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA;3. Fuels Natural Resource Specialist, Bureau of Land Management Salt Lake Field Office, Salt Lake City, UT 84119, USA;1. Research Associate, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA.;2. Associate Professor, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA.;3. Research Botanist, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID 83706, USA.;1. Associate Professor/Natural Resources Specialist, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, Elko, NV 89801, USA.;2. Research Scientist, USDA-ARS Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center (EOARC), Burns, OR 97720, USA.;1. Ecologist, Institute for Applied Ecology, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA.;2. Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA;1. Authors are Research Assistant, Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, Oregon State University, La Grande, OR 97850, USA;2. Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture, Veterinary, and Rangeland Science, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89512, USA;3. Associate Professor, Eastern Oregon Agriculture and Natural Resources Program, Oregon State University, La Grande, OR 97850, USA;4. Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Range and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID 83844;5. Geographer, Pacific Northwest Research Station Forestry and Range Sciences Lab, USDA Forest Service, La Grande, OR 97850, USA.;1. Research Geneticist, US Department of Agriculture (USDA)?Forest Service (FS), Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID 83702, USA;2. Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA;3. Research Botanist (Emeritus), USDA-FS, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, ID 83702, USA;5. Assistant Professor, Department of Animal and Range Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA;6. Great Basin Ecologist, Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office, Boise, ID 83712, USA;7. Professor, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA;8. Associate Research Professor, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA |
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Effective control methods need to be developed to reduce crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum [L.] Gaertner) monocultures and promote the establishment of native species. This research was designed to determine effective ways to reduce crested wheatgrass and establish native species while minimizing weed invasion. We mechanically (single- or double-pass disking) and chemically (1.1 L · ha?1 or 3.2 L · ha?1 glyphosate–Roundup Original Max) treated two crested wheatgrass sites in northern Utah followed by seeding native species in 2005 and 2006. The study was conducted at each site as a randomized block split plot design with five blocks. Following wheatgrass-reduction treatments, plots were divided into 0.2-ha subplots that were either unseeded or seeded with native plant species using a Truax Rough Rider rangeland drill. Double-pass disking in 2005 best initially controlled wheatgrass and decreased cover from 14% to 6% at Lookout Pass and from 14% to 4% at Skull Valley in 2006. However, crested wheatgrass recovered to similar cover percentages as untreated plots 2–3 yr after wheatgrass-reduction treatments. At the Skull Valley site, cheatgrass cover decreased by 14% on herbicide-treated plots compared to an increase of 33% on mechanical-treated plots. Cheatgrass cover was also similar on undisturbed and treated plots 2 yr and 3 yr after wheatgrass-reduction treatments, indicating that wheatgrass recovery minimized any increases in weed dominance as a result of disturbance. Native grasses had high emergence after seeding, but lack of survival was associated with short periods of soil moisture availability in spring 2007. Effective wheatgrass control may require secondary treatments to reduce the seed bank and open stands to dominance by seeded native species. Manipulation of crested wheatgrass stands to restore native species carries the risk of weed invasion if secondary treatments effectively control the wheatgrass and native species have limited survival due to drought. |
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