Applying the Successional Weed Management Model for Revegetating a Yellow Starthistle-Infested Dryland Pasture in the Chihuahuan Desert

Table 1

Precipitation (mm) received in Cliff, New Mexico during the yellow starthistle revegetation field experiment and annual percent of long-term average (source: National Climatic Data Center).

Season	Precipitation
	2002	2003	2004	2005
January–March	23	40	96	181
April–June	4	9	84	30
July–September	202	69	189	^a
October–December	75	58	85	^a
Total	304	176	454	—
% Mean annual	80%	46%	119%	—

^aResearch completed in April 2005.