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Poster Session A - Vegetation Management and Restoration Practices Posters

• Rates of Legume Decline Vary Among Forage Mixes in Central Alberta Erin M. McLeod, Edward W. Bork, Jane R. King and Linda M. Hall

• Genetic and Phenotypic Analysis of Blue Grama [Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. Ex-Kunth) Lag. Ex-Steud.] Populations in Chihuahua Mexico Luís Madrid-Pérez, Quintón Rascón-Cruz, Carlos Morales Nieto, Victor Aguirre Arzola, Benito Pereyra-Alférez, Guadalupe Nevárez-Moorillón, Armando Aguado-Santacruz and Sigifredo Arévalo-Gallegos

• The Influence of Plant Functional Group Removal on Succession in Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities Chad S. Boyd and Tony J. Svejcar

• Establishing Fourwing Saltbush (Atriplex canescens) by Transplanting in Arid Zones in Northern Mexico Jesus Enrique Cantu Brito

• The Effect of Discing to Reduce Cheatgrass Densities Following Wildfires Charlie D. Clements, Dan N. Harmon and James A. Young

• Hydrologic Response of Mechanical Mastication in Juniper Woodland in Utah Nathan L. Cline, Bruce A. Roundy, Fredrick B. Pierson, Patrick Kormos and C. Jason Williams

• Glacier Creek Wetland Restoration in Rocky Mountain National Park Scott M. Esser, Jeff Maugans, Lonnie Pilkington, Lindsay Springer, Laura Wheatley and Ben Bobowski

• Native Prairie Restoration in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas Anthony D. Falk, Timothy Fulbright, Paula Maywald, Forrest Smith, Stephen Benn and Alfonso Ortega-Santos

• Effects of 10 Years of Fire and Climate Variability on Perennial Grass Cover in Shortgrass Steppe of the Southern Great Plains Paulette L. Ford

• Fire and Strategic Grazing Tools to Restore Rough Fescue Native Range in Alberta, Canada Kevin A. France and Callum Sears

• Fire Fuel Load Effects on Heat Dosage and Perennial Plant Response Kimberly F. Haile and Lance T. Vermeire

• Effects of Biosolids Application on Establishment of Native, Warm-Season Grasses in Abandoned Fields of Chihuahua, Mexico Pedro Jurado, Mario Royo, Carlos Morales, Ruben Saucedo and Alicia Melgoza

• Establishment of Fourwing Saltbush Ecotypes in Northern Mexico’s Oak-Bunchgrass Rangelands Ruben Saucedo-Teran, Jose Badillo-Almaraz, Hector Rubio-Arias and Pedro Jurado-Guerra

• Promoting the Re-Establishment of Herbaceous Native Plants on Mixed Brush Plant Communities With Roller Chopping Felix A. Ayala, J. Alfonso Ortega-S., Timothy E. Fulbright and G. Allen Rasmussen

• Analysis of the Morphological Variability in Populations of Green Sprangletop [(Leptochloa dubia (Kunth) Nees)] to Use in Rangeland Restoration Carlos R. Morales-Nieto, Alicia Melgoza, Pedro Jurado, Martin Martinez and Otilia Rivero

• Effects of Different Management Practices on Soil Seed Bank Composition in a Mixed-Grass Prairie of the Northern Great Plains Lan Xu, Brent E. Turnipseed, Roger N. Gates, Patricia S. Johnson and Nels H. Troelstrup, Jr.

• Grass, Forb and Shrub Response on Four Prescribed Burns in N.E. California Joseph A. Wagner

• Patch-Burn Grazing in the Bluestem Flint Hills and the Central States Cheryl K. Simmons, Reggie L. Blackwell, Marva L. Weigelt and Jane B. Koger

• Forage Importance of Trees and Shrubs in Goat Production Systems in Northeast Durango, Mexico Celso M. Valencia-Castro, Jesús J. Quiñones-Vera, Edmundo Castellanos-Pérez and Gerardo Jiménez-González

• Predicting Herbage Mass in Irrigated Orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) Pastures Glenn E. Shewmaker, Laura K. Hooper and Thomas Griggs

• The Murphy Complex Wildfire Report on Livestock Grazing, Vegetation Type, and Fire Behavior Mike Pellant, Karen Launchbaugh, Matt Brooks, Jay Davison and Steve Bunting

• Kochia and Non-Natives for Restoration, Good or Bad? Kim Anderson and Richard D. Madril

• Cost Effectiveness of Fuel Break Treatments in Cheatgrass-Dominated Landscapes Christopher A. Call, Joel M. Diamond, Nicole McCoy and Nora Devoe

• Response of Soil Microbial Communities to Prescribed Fire in a Semi-Arid Grassland Carlton S. White, Martina Stursova, Rosemary L. Pendleton and Robert L. Sinsabaugh

• Effect of Fire Season and Spring Grazing on Soil Seedbank in the Northern Great Plains Jennifer M. Muscha and Lance T. Vermeire

• Effect of Prescribed Fire on Standing Crop Production in Halophilous Grassland of Durango, Mexico Jesús J. Quiñones-Vera, Celso M. Valencia-Castro, Edmundo Castellanos-Perez, Olvera Sanchez-Olvera, Juan J. Martinez-Rios and Gerardo Jimenez-Gonzalez

• Effects of Seeding Rate and Season of Seeding on Establishment of Ten Native Grasses in the Rio Grande Plains of Texas Forrest S. Smith, William R. Ocumpaugh, Paula D. Maywald and Jim Mutz

• Effects of Prescribed Burning on Grazed Shortgrass Steppe David J. Augustine, D.G. Milchunas and J.D. Derner