11-30-12 Field Note by Jeff Clarke

11-30-12 Field Note by Jeff Clarke

December 4, 2012

Jeff Clarke's Field Note describes the repair, uses, and benefits of buck and rail fences.

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Field Note 11-30-12 by Jeff Clarke

This week, we repaired all the crippled fences and added screws to others to prevent damage

We tracked the growth of 53 chokecherries inside and outside the buck-and-rail exclosures to learn whether these exclosures reduce browsing for the shrubs inside.

in.) Last Fall we used a buck and rail fence to protect this small grove of suckering aspen in Tongue Creek.

A protected exclosure is filled with healthy, young aspen

This aspen grove has nearly doubled in size after one year.

Buck and rail fences protect wet, soggy, areas.

Evidience of an area without exclosure protection.

Ungulates broke into exclosures and ate some of the shrubs.

Exclosures that didn’t get destroyed filled with snowberry bushes.

Hundreds of geese and ducks flock to the stubble corn field.

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