Download or read book Breeding Bird Populations in a Grazed and Ungrazed Riparian Habitat in Nevada (Classic Reprint) written by Dean E. Medin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Breeding Bird Populations in a Grazed and Ungrazed Riparian Habitat in Nevada Reports emphasizing the importance of riparian ecosystems as habitat for wildlife are numerous (for example, Ohmart and Anderson 1986; Thomas and others Many species are either directly de pendent on riparian habitats or utilize them more than other habitats. For many of the same reasons that riparian areas are disproportionately impor tant to wildlife, they are also important to livestock. Cattle prefer riparian areas for the quality and vari ety of forage, for their easy accessibility, for shade, and for a generally reliable source of water (gillen and others Because of these converging val ues, riparian ecosystems represent major areas of potential conflict. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.