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Dennis D. Austin, Philip J. Urness, Robert A. Riggs, Vegetal Change in the Absence of Livestock Grazing, Mountain Brush Zone, Utah, Journal of Range Management, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Nov., 1986), pp. 514-517
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