Voles Damage Big Sagebrush in Southwestern Montana
Issue Date
1967-03-01Keywords
Microtusvoles
plague
Outbreaks
rodents
Barking
pennsylvanicus
Stripping
Southwestern Montana
browsebig sagebrushproductionforage
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Mueggler, W. F. (1967). Voles damage big sagebrush in southwestern Montana. Journal of Range Management, 20(2), 88-91.Publisher
Society for Range ManagementJournal
Journal of Range ManagementDOI
10.2307/3895951Additional Links
https://rangelands.org/Abstract
Extensive destruction of big sagebrush in southwestern Montana in the winter of 1963-64 is attributed to a sudden irruption of the population of voles. Such extensive sudden destruction of browse species over wide areas concerns both ranchers and game managers because it can affect production of browse and forage for several succeeding years.Type
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