Abstract
The native prairie is one of the greatest natural resources in the Great Plains. In fact range land often furnishes a major portion of the farm income. How to keep ranges at a continuous maximum production and how to bring them back to this condition when they have deteriorated, are problems that confront most livestock producers in this region. Native prairie animals are doubtless important in maintaining the prairies in a climax condition. Research has furnished much information concerning the life history of most native prairie animals. But information concerning the extent to which the different prairie plants furnish food for native prairie animals is incomplete, also the part played by these animals in maintaining or regenerating the range is not fully known. In western Kansas several grasses appear early when natural revegetation is allowed to occur on barren areas. Among the first are sand dropseed, Texas crabgrass, and windmill grass. Just how these grasses make their entrance so quickly is not fully known. The present study is concerned with the activity of the jack rabbit (Lepus californicus melanotis Mearns) and the cotton tail (Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsi Allen) in relation to the utilization and dissemination of native plants in a mixed prairie near Hays, Kansas.
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