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David Griffiths grew up in South Dakota after his family emigrated there from his birthplace of Aberystwyth, Wales.
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Excerpt from Forage Conditions and Problems in Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, North-Eastern California, and North-Western Nevada It is noteworthy that the one factor which has contributed more than any other to the depletion of the ranges is the development of hay production on irrigated land in the range region. As long as stock was compelled to subsist the year round on the range, the limited supply of winter feed rendered it impossible to support enough stock to make serious inroads on the more abundant summer growth. The forage plants of the ranges were thus permitted to make seed. But with the advent of hay for winter feed the amount of stock that could be handled increased till in many places the summer growth on the range was entirely consumed, leaving no chance for the production of seed. As a result many thousands of acres of land that formerly fur nished abundant pasture are now devoid of any growth that stock will eat, while plants of no value and which are not disturbed by the graz ing stock have spread rapidly over these areas. It is clear that suggestions for the improvement of range conditions to be of value must come from those who are not only familiar with the condition of the ranges, but who also understand the conditions under which stock must be handled on the range. In obtaining the material used in preparing this paper, Dr. Griffiths has traveled miles in the range country, mostly by wagon, but no small part of this distance has been covered afoot. On this journey every stockman on the route was interviewed, and in this way much valuable informa tion was collected. 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.
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David Griffiths grew up in South Dakota after his family emigrated there from his birthplace of Aberystwyth, Wales.
He attended South Dakota Agricultural College, receiving both a Bachelor of Arts (1892) and an Master of Science (1893) from that institution. After gaining his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1900, he became a professor of botany at the University of Arizona Experiment Station, where he studied desert plants.
Foreign a few years after leaving college, he taught high school science classes. In 1898, he began doctoral studies at Columbia University, focusing on fungi and publishing on such agriculturally important fungal diseases as powdery mildew, ergots, and smuts. A year later, he moved to the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, where he would spend a decade and a half as a specialist on grasses in charge of field management of the Grass and Forage Plant Investigations unit of the bureau.
Foreign the bureau, he traveled around northern Mexico and the United States studying and collecting native grasses and range plants, ultimately assembling an enormous collection at the Plant Introduction Garden in Chico, California.
In 1901 alone, he traveled over 700 miles between Nevada and Oregon, and he took some of the earliest known photos of the Great Basin that were intended specifically to record conditions out on the range. In this period, the fencing-in of the west over the previous half century had pushed sheep and cattle onto ever-smaller areas of rangeland, resulting in overstocking that had damaged the land.
Griffiths" researches were part of a drive by the United States Department of Agriculture to help find ways to improve range management in the western states. In the course of his researches, Griffiths became especially interested in plants adapted to low-water environments such as prickly pear cactus that could be used as supplemental or emergency feed for livestock.
Under his supervision, the botanical illustrator Louis Charles Christopher Krieger painted a series of watercolors of his Opuntia collection.
The year Griffiths died, his cactus collection (as well as his photographs of cacti) was donated to the United States National Museum. In his final two decades, Griffiths focused on bulbous plants both native and imported, becoming a senior horticulturalist for United States Department of Agriculture"s research on bulb production. He authored a series of booklets on cultivation bulbs in general and of daffodils, narcissus, tulips, lilies, and hyacinths in particular.
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As a result of his investigations into the cultivation potential of these kinds of food sources, he became an authority an cacti, assembling a collection of well over 3000 members of the cactus genus Opuntia.
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