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i ~ <br />9?04 Shallow Foothill NLRA 49 -4- <br />B. MAJOR USES AND INTERPRETATIONS rOR: <br />1. Grazi <br />This site provides good forage for cattle a horses throughc~ _.. <br />year. It provides excellent forage for she p, deer, and antelope. <br />Distribution of domestic livestock can be a problems on this site c <br />Lo the slopes, shrubs, and rocks. Cattle i particular and all <br />domestic livestock in general tend to graze the Zovet slopes, <br />leaving the upper slopes lightly grazed or ngrazed. Cattle <br />poisoning in the spring and early summer G De a problea if the <br />area has a Sanger than normal aaoant of Sar spur. Larkspur seems <br />increase in abundance with overuse of the s e. <br />The animal forage preference changes-a: the <br />progresses. Griffith wheatgrass, naedleand <br />cool season grasses provide good spring tnd' <br />Big bluestem, yellow Indiangrass, sideosts~, <br />and several other was: season plants provtd <br />True mountain mahogany provides good Drowse <br />winter. It is i~ortant tDat a psoper stoe <br />deferment be scheduled so these plants arr <br />Reestablishment of vegetation is difficult <br />slope, rocks, and shallow soil. The season <br />grazing animal, past grazing use, and plant <br />directly i~luenoe animal prstesenee and pe <br />?. wildlife <br />zdrinq season <br />iraad, and several oth~ <br />only summer grazing. <br />Yma, little bluestem, <br />good summer forage. <br />hrough the fall and <br />ng rate and planned <br />ft grazed out. <br />i Lhis site due to the <br />of use, dSmate, k=-a <br />eomnosition will <br />This site has a hsgh value for deer and mede~te valve for <br />cottontail, coyote, antelope,: and-serious ra ors. <br />3. watershed (Hydrologic Interpretation) <br />5oi1s a! this site are grouped into 'D' and <br />outlined in the 'Soils of Colorado Loss Tact <br />Hydrologic Groupings 1979" handbook. wield <br />neadel to determine hydrologic town aid ear <br />Dydt~7egic curve number for group D°soils !s <br />soils is about 74, where the hydrologic cored <br />sho~m in 'Peak t1 wvs in Colorado' hendDOOk. <br />Refer to SCS National tngineering Handbook; <br />runoff quantities from the curves. <br />4. Recreation and Natural Battty <br />Due to the break in physiographie teaturss, <br />aesthetic appeal and natural beauty. Zt is <br />and excellent for deer hunting. <br />hydrologic groups . <br />s a~ Erodibility <br />vestigations are <br />numbers. She <br />bout 80 and group C <br />ions ace good, as <br />ion 4, to decermin. <br />s1L• has high <br />to good for hikinc <br />