Alteration of Bison and Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Grazing Interaction by Prescribed Burning
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 50 (3), 452-455
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3801103
Abstract
Bison (Bison bison) use of a black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colony was compared before and after a prescribed burn on adjacent, uncolonized grassland at Wind Cave National Park (WCNP), South Dakota, 1979-80. On a daily basis cow-calf herds increased their use of the burned grassland 12 .times. and decreased their use of the colony by 30-63% following the burn. Prescribed burns could be effective in mitigating bison impacts on colonies.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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