Purpose: This practice will be applied to accomplish one or more of the following purposes:
1. Restore desired vegetative cover to protect soils, control
erosion, reduce sediment, improve water quality, and/or
enhance stream flow.
2. Restore natural plant community balance.
3. Reduce competition for space, moisture, and sunlight
between desired and unwanted plants
4. Manage eastern red cedar, thorny locust, osage orange,
sandhill plum, pricklypear, and yucca on rangeland,
and warm and cool season pasture and haylands.
Conditions Where Practice Applies:
This practice applies on rangeland, and warm and cool season pasture and haylands where removal or reduction of excessive woody, non-herbaceous plants is desired. Where adjustments in grazing management, prescribed burning, and other conservation practices will not restore the kind of plant cover needed to attain conservation objectives within a reasonable time frame.
