"Pilot grazing" project at Asotin Widlife Area - Invited Lecture to show point of view of concerned citizens

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"Pilot grazing" project at Asotin Widlife Area-
Invited Lecture to show point of view of
concerned citizens
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Pintler Creek

• -Without cattle from 1990 to 2007
• -Purchased with BPA and U.S. Army Corp of
  Engineers mitigation funding

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Smooth Iron Unit

• Without cattle from 2003 to 2007
• Purchased with BPA mitigation funding

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Pintler Canyon upland spring
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Bench above the spring
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Fence protecting Pintler Creek
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Owl Gulch/Pintler first cattle since 1990
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Smooth Iron Pasture 6 forbs for wildlife?
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Pasture 5 cattle improved winter elk forage?
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Pasture 5 cattle improved fescue for elk?
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Pasture 5 -- 2nd year of benefits 50
utilization? We finished in pasture 5 which was
better this year than the previous (Ledgerwood
Jan 2009)
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Pasture 5 Targeted grazing, suitable ground
cover?
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Pasture 1 gone to the South Fork of Asotin
Creek after targeted grazing on October 07
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Pasture 1 suitability? Permitee asked to
grazing in Oct 09 To help get grasses that have
gone to seed in pasture 1 to make contact with
the soil.
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Related Information

• Hardesty recommended 70 AUMs of Smoothing Iron in
  2009
• Ledgerwood requested140 AUMs
• Subsequently WDFW draft 2009 Grazing Plan
  schedules 150 pair with 113 to 200 AUMs after 50
  utilization of bluebunch wheatgrass and Idaho
  fescue
• 2007 was 575 AUMs
• 2008 was 400 AUMs

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Rare Plants at smooth Iron

• Spaldings catchfly in pasture 4 (permitee
  requested 60 utilization for 2009) survey of
  other psatures not completed (Pastures 2 5
  possible sites)
• Stalk-leaved monkeyflower in pasture 1
• Sagebrush mariposa lily outside 6 fence

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Wildlife Biologist

• Conference with District Team Wildlife Biologist,
  Pat Fowler, regarding elk should be scheduled.

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