West Texas Rangelands
West Texas RangelandsWe hope to provide a variety of science-based rangeland information and current research on prescribed fire, wildfires, brush management, and grazing management!

Refereed Journal Articles

Fire

A Process-Oriented Model of Decision-Making toward Landscape-Scale Prescribed Fire Implementation in Southern Great Plains, USA

Bermudagrass (Cynodon Dactylon) Response to Summer Prescribed Burning

Fire and Nitrogren Alter Axillary Bud Number and Activity in Purple Threeawn

Fire, Defoliation, and Competing Species Alter Aristida Purpurea Biomass, Tiller, and Aristida Purpurea Biomass, Tiller, and Axillary Bud Production

Fire Return Interval and Season of Fire Alter Bud Banks

Grass Bud Responses to Fire in a Semiarid Savanna System

How Awareness and Social Interactions Influence Prescribed Fire Recommendations

Liability and Prescribed Fire: Perception and Reality

Old School and High Tech: A Comparison of Methods to Quantify Ashe Juniper Biomass as Fuel or Forage

Prosopis Glandulosa Persistence is Facilitated by Differential Protection of Buds During Low- and High-energy Fires

Saving Imperiled Grassland Biomes by Recoupling Fire and Grazing: A Case Study from the Great Plains

Season of Fire Manipulates Bud Bank Dynamics in Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie

Seasonal Timing of Fire Alters Biomass and Species Composition of Northern Mixed Prairie

Soil Heating in Fire (SheFire): A Model and Measurement Method for Estimating Soil Heating and Effects During Wildland Fires

The Impact of Affective Heuristics in Decision Making Regarding the Implementation of Prescribed Fire on Private Rangelands in the Southern Great Plains, USA

Utilizing Patch Burning to Enhance Vegetation Management in the Southern Great Plains

 

Grazing

Grazing Distribution and Diet Quality of Angus, Brangus, and Brahman Cows in the Chihuahuan Desert

 

People

Amenity Migration for Land Stewardship: Getting Know the New Faces in Ranching

Exploring the Most Effective Form of Multimethod Rangeland Literacy Learning in Texas

Factors Influencing County Commissioners’ Decisions about Burn Bans in the Southern Plains, USA

Impacts of Multimethod Learning on Prescribed Fire in Texas

Leveraging Social Science Research to Advance Contemporary Rangeland Management: Understanding the “New Faces” of Range Managers

 

Rangeland Plants

2017 American Journal of Botany (104 915-923) Phenology of Perennial, Native Grass, Belowground Axillary Buds in the Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie