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Figure 8. — Meadow A after 9 years of gopher control: A, Ungrazed plot; B. grazed 

 plot. A relatively dense stand of perennial forbs and grasses had become established. 

 (Same quadrats shown in fig. 6.) 



Individual species differed somewhat in amount on the grazed and 

 ungrazed plots. Kentucky bluegrass, common dandelion, and Columbia 

 groundsel, species of high forage value as sheep forage on meadows, and 

 little oniongrass, fleabane, and Wyethia, species of low value as sheep 

 forage, were more abundant on the grazed plot than on the ungrazed 



