Excerpt from The Santa Rita Experimental Range: A Center for Research on Improvement and Management of Semidesert Rangelands The Santa Rita Experimental Range, 30 miles south of Tucson, Arizona is maintained by the Forest Service, u.s. Department of Agriculture, for research on semidesert ranges grazed by cattle. The -acre Experimen tal Range, established in 1903, is representa tive of about 20 million acres of semidesert grass-shrub range in southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas (fig. Research is con ducted in cooperation with State and other Federal agencies, and with cooperating cattle men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.