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Kansas Rangeland Science and Management

Rangeland Management
(Includes Grazing Ecology and Management and Fire Ecology)

• Deferred-rotation grazing with steers in the Kansas flint hills
  C. E. Owensby, E. F. Smith, K. L. Anderson. November 1973. Journal of Range Management 26(6):393-395. PDF (423 KB)

• Effects of dormant-season herbage removal on flint hills rangeland
  L. M. Auen, C. E. Owensby. November 1988. Journal of Range Management 41(6):481-482. PDF (282 KB)

• Effects of nitrogen fertilization and late-spring burning of bluestem range on diet and performance of steers
  J. S. Woolfolk, E. F. Smith, R. R. Schalles, B. E. Brent, L. H. Harbers. May 1975. Journal of Range Management 28(3):190-193. PDF (596 KB)

• Effects of range burning on Kansas Flint Hills soil
  Clenton E. Owensby and John Bruce Wyrill, III. May 1973. Journal of Range Management 26(3):185-188. PDF (1.22 MB)

• 50 Years of Range Research Revisited
  Clenton Owensby, Robert Cochran, Kling Anderson, Ed Smith, and Eric Vanzant. October 1995. 57 pages. PDF (695 KB)

• Grain supplementation on bluestem range for intensive-early stocked steers
  Clenton E. Owensby, Robert C. Cochran, Robert T. Brandt, Jr., Eric S. Vanzant, Lisa M. Auen, E.M. Clary. May 1995. Journal of Range Management 48(3):246-250. PDF (600 KB)

• Intensive-early stocking and season-long stocking of Kansas flint hills range
  E. F. Smith, C. E. Owensby. January 1978. Journal of Range Management 31(1):14-17. PDF (642 KB)

• Lone Star Tick Abundance, Fire, and Bison Grazing in Tallgrass Prairie
  Jack F. Cully. March 1999. Journal of Range Management 52(2):139-144. PDF (55 KB)

• Long-term effects of annual burning at different dates in ungrazed Kansas tallgrass prairie
  G. Towne and C. Owensby. September 1984. Journal of Range Management 37(5):392-397. PDF (866 KB)

• Managing Kansas Grazinglands for Multiple Benefits
  Will Boyer, Larry Huber, Gary May, Rodney Jones, Walter Fick, and Paul Ohlenbusch. June 2004. MF-2086. KSU Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. PDF (582 KB)

• Nutritive value of tree leaves in the Kansas flint hills
  J. R. Forwood, C. E. Owensby. January 1985. Journal of Range Management 38(1):61-64. PDF (538 KB)

• Predictive Models for Grazing Distribution: A GIS Approach
  Brent L. Brock, Clenton E. Owensby. January 2000. Journal of Range Management 53(1):39-46. PDF (157 KB)

• Range Research In Western Kansas
  Eric S. Vanzant. October 1995. 7 pages. (pdf)

• Role of Grazing and Fire Management in Grassland Diversity and Production
  David C. Hartnett. October 1995. 11 pages. PDF (454 KB)

• Seasonal Variation in Quality of Grazed Forage During a Drought Year R. C. Cochran and E. S. Vanzant. Cattlemen's Day 1991. Report of Progress 623. 3 pages. PDF (411 KB)

• Spring burning: Resulting avian abundance and nesting in Kansas CRP
  Robert J. Robel, John P. Hughes, Scott D. Hull, Kenneth E. Kemp, David S. Klute. March 1998. Journal of Range Management 51(2):132-138. PDF (879 KB)

• Stocking rate effects on intensive-early stocked flint hills bluestem range
  C. E. Owensby, R. Cochran, E. F. Smith. November 1988. Journal of Range Management 41(6):483-487. PDF (552 KB)

• Vegetation dynamics from annually burning tallgrass prairie in different seasons
  E. G. Towne, K. E. Kemp. March 2003. Journal of Range Management 56(2):185-192. PDF (795 KB)

• Vegetation of prairie dog colonies and non-colonized shortgrass prairie
  S. L. Winter, J. F. Cully, JR., J. S. Pontius. September 2002. Journal of Range Management 55(5):502-508. PDF (783 KB)

• Vegetational traits of patch-grazed rangeland in west-central Kansas
  C. B. II. Ring, R. A. Nicholson, J. L. Launchbaugh. January 1985. Journal of Range Management 38(1):51-55. PDF (606 KB)

• Yield response to time of burning in the Kansas Flint Hills
  Clenton E. Owensby and Kling L. Anderson. 1967. Journal of Range Management 20(1):12-16. PDF (829 KB)

Range Plants

• Characteristics of Selected Western Kansas Range Plants
  R. A. Nicholson, J. L. Launchbaugh. Occasional Paper No. 1, June 1991, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas.

• Controlling prairie threeawn (Aristida oliganthai> Michx.) in Central and Eastern Kansas with Fall Burning
  C. E. Owensby, J. L. Launchbaugh. September 1977. Journal of Range Management 30(5):337-339. PDF (432 KB)

• Effect of Annual Fire on Tallgrass Prairie Legumes
  G. Towne and A. K. Knapp. Cattlemen's Day 1996. Report of Progress 756. 2 pages. PDF (11 KB)

• Establishing Native Grasses
  Paul D. Ohlenbusch. KSU Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. MF-2291. October 1997. 4 pages PDF (48 KB)

• Fertilizing and burning flint hills bluestem
  C. E. Owensby, E. F. Smith. July 1979. Journal of Range Management 32(4):254-257. PDF (675 KB)

• Principal Poisonous Plants in Kansas
  Frank C. Gates, Technical Bulletin 25, July 1930, Agricultural Experiment Station, Kansas State Agricultural College. PDF (3.75 MB)

• Range burning and fertilizing related to nutritive value of bluestem grass
  L. J. Allen, L. H. Harbers, R. R. Schalles, C. E. Owensby, E. F. Smith. July 1976. Journal of Range Management 29(4):306-308. PDF (475 KB)

• Range Grasses of Kansas
  Paul D. Ohlenbusch, Elizabeth P. Hodges, Susan Pope. KSU Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. C-567. July 1983. 25 pages. PDF (1.20 MB)

• Seeding Native Grass Mixtures
  Paul D. Ohlenbusch and dale R. Kirkham. Proceedings - Ranch Management Field Day. KSU Cooperative Extension Service. July 1987. 4 pages. PDF (251 KB)

Invasive Species

• Evaluation of eastern redcedar infestations in the northern Kansas flint hills
  C. E. Owensby, K. R. Blan, B. J. Eaton, O. G. Russ. July 1973. Journal of Range Management 26(4):256-260. PDF (889 KB)

• Musk Thistle Identification and Control
  Walter H. Fick and Dallas E. Peterson. 1995. KSU Coop. Ext. Serv. L-231 (revised). Manhattan, KS. PDF (643 KB)

• Sericea Lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) A Noxious Weed
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• Sericea Lespedeza: History, Characteristics, and Identification
  Paul D. Ohlenbusch and Terry Bidwell, March 2001, Kansas State Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, MF-2408 PDF (204 KB)

Historical

• Achievements in Management and Utilization of Privately-owned Rangelands
  Clenton E. Owensby. January 2000. Journal of Range Management 53(1):12-16. PDF (51 KB)

• Kansas Rangelands: Their Management Based on a Half Century of Research
  John L. Launchbaugh and Clenton E. Owensby. October 1978. Bulletin 622. Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Manhattan, KS. PDF (1.34 MB)

• The Identification of Certain Native and Naturalized Grasses by the Vegetative Characteristics
  R.F. Copple and A.E. Aldous. March 1932. Technical Bulletin 32. Agricultural Experiment Station. Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Manhattan, KS. PDF (2.70 MB)   Caution - some of the grasses listed in this historical publication now have different scientific names.