USDA Forest Service 

 Research Paper INT-125 

 May 1972 



BITTERBRUSH TOPPING: 

 SHRUB RESPONSE AND COST E\CTORS 



Robert B. Ferguson 



Research conducted cooperatively by Intermountain For- 

 est and Range Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, 

 Ogden, Utah, and the Idaho Fish and Game Department 

 through Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Project W-lll-R. 



INTERMOUNTAIN FOREST AND RANGE EXPERIMENT STATION 



Forest Service 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture 

 Ogden, Utah 84401 

 Robert W. Harris, Director 



