Table Lu02: Land-use changes on parts of the rural Ozarks landscape

Table Lu02. Sequence of land-use changes on parts of the rural Ozarks landscape. Data is for the following Missouri counties: Butler, Carter, Crawford, Dent, Howell, Iron, Laclede, Oregon, Pulaski, Phelps, Reynolds, Shannon, Texas, Wright (Jacobson and Primm 1994).
Period	Uplands	Valley Slopes	Valley Bottoms
Pre-settlement before 1800	Patchy prarie and oak savannah	Thick oak-hickory and yellow pine	Thick deciduous forest
Early-settlement 1800-1880	Patchy prarie, used for grazing and minor row crops	Thick oak-hickory with minor cutting	Cleared for pasture and row crops
Timber-boom 1880-1920	Cutover, fire supression	Cut over	Cleared for pasture and row crops
Post-timber-boom 1920-1960	Increasing pasture, row crops	Woodland grazing, seasonal burning	Cleared for pasture and row crops, open-range grazing
Recent 1960-present (1993)	Increased grazing and row crops	Woodland grazing, managed timber little burning	Cleared for pasture and row crops with some reversion to forest

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