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Harmful Grazing Effects, Manti-La Sal NF: 45 photos on 2 pages

Trampled slope, vegetation. Trampled plants. Muddy, trampled soil near juniper grove. Grass grazed to 1-2 inches.
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Consistently bare ground; one scarlet gilia protected by shrub. Trampled spring, with muddied water barely flowing into the cow pond below. Fouled pond, cattle allotment. Spring piped at source for cattle.
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Cow trough bathtub and log in beat-out area, Same cow trough as #1902; large area of exposed soil and erosion. Shallow soil; cattle grazing the now-pedestaled bunchgrass. Browsed young aspen with exotic Kentucky bluegrass filling in.
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Aspen with all young aspen saplings browsed - no recruitment. Practically no forbs; snowberry essentially the only shrub. Bare ground in aspen. Mostly only snowberry; occasional squirreltail. Trampled cow pond; mosquito larvae. Bunchgrass grazed by cows to ~1
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Cows on exposed slope in recent burn. Cows in recent burn. Ground about 80% bare. Cows in recent burn area. Cattle in burned slope. Grasses mowed - essentially no grass seed heads except on squirrel tail, which isn't being eaten.
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7 Sparse, trampled vegetation; bare ground. Sheep allotment. Above Horseshoe Flat. Sparse vegetation at 10,800' altitude, with sheep droppings. Small aspen grove being
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