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Quit Your Horsin' Around! The Effects of Trampling on Vegetation in MontanaThis article is from Issue Rocky Mountain - Vol. 2 No. 1.
* Note: All editions of the Natural Inquirer starting with Volume 5 and including future editions require the newest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 in order to be downloaded. We have upgraded in order to ensure greater accessibility to PDF files. Please click on the following link if you need to upgrade your Adobe Acrobat reader: Upgrade now to Adobe Reader 6.0. It is a free upgrade. When people go hiking or camping in back country or wilderness areas, they almost always impact the natural environment in some way. When people use the back country, they sometimes use pack animals to make their trip easier. While much trampling occurs on trails, for pack animals, it can also occur where the animals are grazing. The scientists in this article studied what happens to vegetation that is being trampled by people, horses, and llamas.
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