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  "@type": "dcat:Dataset",
  "accessLevel": "public",
  "accessRights": "public",
  "accrualPeriodicity": "R/P1M",
  "bureauCode": [
    "005:18"
  ],
  "contactPoint": {
    "fn": "McGranahan, Devan A.",
    "hasEmail": "mailto:Devan.McGranahan@usda.gov"
  },
  "description": "<p dir=\"ltr\">These data are the result of a four-year (2017-2020) study comparing rangeland forage and cattle responses across three grazing management practices in central North Dakota. In each season, cow-calf pairs grazed on n = 4 pastures for each grazing management practice: <i>Patch burned</i>, in which a 40-ac patch of 160-ac pastures were burned with prescribed fire each spring with no internal fences; <i>Continuous</i>, in which neither prescribed fire nor internal fences were used; and <i>Rotational</i>, in which 40-ac pastures were sub-divided into 4 paddocks each with no prescribed fire. The data were primarily managed by Megan Wanchuk in support of her Master's thesis: </p><p dir=\"ltr\">Wanchuk, MR. 2022. <i>Patch-Burning Improves Forage Nutritive Value and Livestock Performance over Rotational and Continuous Grazing Strategies</i> (Master's Thesis, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota).</p>",
  "distribution": [
    {
      "@type": "dcat:Distribution",
      "downloadURL": "https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/45222205",
      "format": "xlsx",
      "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
      "mediaType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet",
      "title": "CentralGrasslandsFireForageNAL.xlsx"
    }
  ],
  "identifier": "10.15482/USDA.ADC/25464097.v1",
  "keyword": [
    "Patch burn grazing",
    "Prescribed fire",
    "Pyric herbivory",
    "Rangeland Ecology",
    "Rangeland Management",
    "Rangeland fire ecology"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
  "modified": "2026-08-24",
  "programCode": [
    "005:040"
  ],
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "org:Organization",
    "name": "Agricultural Research Service"
  },
  "temporal": [
    {
      "@type": "PeriodOfTime",
      "endDate": "2020-10-01",
      "startDate": "2017-05-01"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Central Grasslands Research Extension Center (North Dakota) patch-burning and grazing management"
}