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Stubble height as a tool for management of riparian areas

Stubble height is discussed as an indicator for monitoring grazing duration in riparian pastures. Authors generally recommend that animals are removed from pastures before forages are grazed to a height of 10 cm or 4 inches. However, they note that at high elevations or when stream banks are dry and stabilized, forages can be grazed as short as 7 cm or 3 inches. Areas that have woody riparian vegetation should not be grazed shorter than 15–20 cm in order to reduce browsing impacts on willows.