At last a valley opened up beneath me, uniformly ocher in color, apparently bare of vegetation.
Goats strip bare the vegetation on which iguanas feed; pigs and cattle disturb nests; cats, rats and Indian mongooses feast on hatchlings and eggs; and dogs kill mature animals.
Synthetic vitamin A sources have become so cheap as to permit the use of 10,000 to 30,000 International Units per day for cattle being fattened for market (finished) in enclosures bare of vegetation (drylots) used for this purpose.
But 8,000 acres of the burned forest was adjacent to the Cheesman Lake reservoir, a major source of water for the Denver area, leaving hillsides bare of vegetation that would normally absorb water from afternoon rainstorms that start this time of year.
It contains heterogeneous land-cover, including bare ground, vegetation and urban features.
The control plot (A) was maintained, bare of vegetation by manual removal of the plant cover and, regular herbicide treatments.
ì The first zone has a convex profile bordered seaward by a trottoir (approx. 3 m wide) that marks the biological sea level and is bare of vegetation.
Losses in spots may be minimised by keeping both the spot area and the duration when the ground is bare of vegetation to a minimum.
Infiltration measurements and rainfall simulations indicate, that the ridges bare of vegetation predominantly have a very low infiltration capacity, which is caused by water repellency.
The period from 1880 to 1910 encompassed several of these climatic cycles, including severe droughts in 1891 1893 and 1898 1904, when vast areas were grazed bare of vegetation (Bahre and Shelton 1996, Sayre 1999).
