Excerpt from Disturbance and Recovery of Trampled Montane Grassland and Forests in Montana Documenting the responses of vegetation and soil to trampling will increase our understanding of these processes and also contribute to more informed manage ment of the backcountry. Study results will improve the ability to predict the consequences of various levels of use. This capability can be used to establish use limits, to decide between dispersing or concentrating use, and to select durable locations for use. Although the results reported here are strictly applicable only to the particular vegetation and soil types that were examined, the study results should provide insights useful in other places. This paper reports the results of experiments in which various amounts of trampling were applied to six habitat types for three successive summers. Following the cessa tion of trampling, recovery was monitored for 3 additional years. Objectives of these experiments were to (1) docu ment rates of disturbance and recovery by measuring changes in vegetation cover, number of plant species. 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.