Excerpt from An Ecological and Grazing Capacity Study of the Native Grass Pastures in Southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba In 1937 a survey of the grasslands in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba was inaugurated as one of the activities of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation program. The chief purposes of the survey are, to classify the native grasslands according to the botanical composition of the vegetation, to ascertain the carrying capacity Of the various grazing districts, and to determine how the native grass pastures should be utilized in order to secure the maximum production of animal products and yet maintain the forage cover. Since the inception of the survey slightly over three million acres have been studied. 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.