. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. The wihllands of California are divided into three zones: The rolling grasslands of the lower foothills. Shown here is grassland in Tulare County, with occasional live oak trees. The dominant vege- tation consists of slender wild oats (Avena harbaia) and redstem filaree (Erodhtm cicutarium). This area had been utilized lightly. Nevada and Mojave Desert. The brush problem of the foothill ranges centers in an area of some 20 million acres. About 55 per cent (11 million acres) of this problem area is larg
. California range brushlands and browse plants. Browse (Animal food); Brush; Forage plants. The wihllands of California are divided into three zones: The rolling grasslands of the lower foothills. Shown here is grassland in Tulare County, with occasional live oak trees. The dominant vege- tation consists of slender wild oats (Avena harbaia) and redstem filaree (Erodhtm cicutarium). This area had been utilized lightly. Nevada and Mojave Desert. The brush problem of the foothill ranges centers in an area of some 20 million acres. About 55 per cent (11 million acres) of this problem area is largely dominated by brush, the rest is dominated by mixtures of hardwood trees, brush, and grass. Table 1 KIND OF RANGE MILLIONS OF ACHES Primary foothill range: Grass Woodland-grass Secondary foothill range: Chaparral Coastal sagebrush Woodland Minor conifers Mountain range: f Pine-fir-redwood t Sagebrush-juniper Woodland-chaparral Crass Total * Since thi acreagi "I California is approximately 100,000,000 acres tin- figures in tin- table can !>â expressed directly as per cent ol area cm i upied lis ea that includes only the true chaparral, some of which is located in the timber zone. It does not include the coastal sagebrush, Great Basin sagebrush, various noncommercial hard- woods, or the 24 million acres of desert, all of which may be designated as "brush," depending on how the term is used. Further, it does not include the 7% million acres classified as woodland-grass, where chaparral has in- creased in abundance in recent years. The individual brushland communities are discussed under five headings: woodland-grass; chaparral; timber- land chaparral; sagebrush, and desert shrub. Woodland-Grass This community occupies the lowest elevations of the brushy vegetation. It comprises some 7M million acres and forms a discontinuous zone on the lower slopes of the coastal ranges, the Klamath Mountains, the Sien
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