Areas in need of reseeding are frequently email and irregularly shaped. 

 The need usually arises because of too early or too concentrated use, 

 or both. The best grass grows where the soil is deep and fertile and 

 the slopes moderate as in basins, swales, low passes, and open parks, 

 and on the broad ridges and flats These are the kinds of areas on which 

 stock like best to graze and thus are more likely than the steep, rocky 

 slopes to be in need of reseeding. 



How to seed : Use a grain drill on accessible areas where it will 

 operate satisfactorily unless cultivation to reduce competition seems 

 necessary. Cover about l/£ inch deep and seed at 7 to 8 pounds per acre. 



T .7here a drill cannot be used, a disk or springtooth harrow used once or 

 twice over should help to relieve competition and leave the soil open 

 enough for seed to be covered properly if broadcast after the cultivation. 

 The recommended mixtures should be broadcast at a rate of about 8 to 10 

 pounds per acre. 



If only a spiketooth harrow or improvised drag must be used, the soil 

 should be worked both before and after broadcasting the seed. 



Although broadcast seeding without soil preparation cannot be recommended 

 as a general practice, it is sometimes the only practicable method for 

 aiding Nature to re-establish a cover on some critical areas too steep 

 or rocky for better methods. 



v'Jhat to seed : Several good grasses have done very well at high eleva- 

 tions, but origin of seed sometimes makes a world of difference. For 

 example, native Idaho fescue is growing all around the 9 ,300-f oot-high 

 nursery on the Beaverhead National Forest, whereas a strain brought from 

 native stands near I.issoula started nicely in 1942 but was practically all 

 dead in two years. A strain of sheep fescue 3nd several other grasses 

 from the Soil Conservation Service nurseries at Pullman, Washington has 

 continued to thrive. 



The following mixtures are suggested for seeding depleted high mountain 

 areas : 



Species 



Dry Sites J 



Moderate to 

 good sites 



lbs. per acre | 



lbs. per acre 



Smooth brome 

 Orchardgrass 

 Timothy 



Crested wheatgrass 



4 

 1 

 1 



•i 



2 

 2 



Total: 



8 



B 



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