Individual Plant
Prescriptions
Livestock
can be a useful tool in managing noxious weeds with consideration
to the following: 1) target plants must be acceptable as forage,
2) grazing should be timed to inflict damage during a vulnerable
time of the weed's life cycle, 3) livestock are controlled to
minimize damage to non-target species and other ecosystem
components. Our goal is to fine tune the animal
so that weeds are not only an acceptable forage, but a preferred
one. Research is continuing........ |