Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Managing the Public Rangelands
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Rangeland Health
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309048796
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Rangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The health and management of rangelands have been matters for scientific inquiry and public debate since the 1880s, when reports of widespread range degradation and livestock losses led to the first attempts to inventory and classify rangelands. Scientists are now questioning the utility of current methods of rangeland classification and inventory, as well as the data available to determine whether rangelands are being degraded. These experts, who are using the same methods and data, have come to different conclusions. This book examines the scientific basis of methods used by federal agencies to inventory, classify, and monitor rangelands; it assesses the success of these methods; and it recommends improvements. The book's findings and recommendations are of interest to the public; scientists; ranchers; and local, state, and federal policymakers.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309048796
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Rangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The health and management of rangelands have been matters for scientific inquiry and public debate since the 1880s, when reports of widespread range degradation and livestock losses led to the first attempts to inventory and classify rangelands. Scientists are now questioning the utility of current methods of rangeland classification and inventory, as well as the data available to determine whether rangelands are being degraded. These experts, who are using the same methods and data, have come to different conclusions. This book examines the scientific basis of methods used by federal agencies to inventory, classify, and monitor rangelands; it assesses the success of these methods; and it recommends improvements. The book's findings and recommendations are of interest to the public; scientists; ranchers; and local, state, and federal policymakers.
Public Rangelands Continue to Deteriorate
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Grazing
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grazing
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Managing the Public Rangelands
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Grazing Fees and Public Rangeland Management
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
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Category : Grazing
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grazing
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Grazing and Public Rangelands
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Managing Public Rangelands
Author: Richard S. Driscoll
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This brochure presents the basic principles of various grazing practices and systems that might be used on National Forests and National Grasslands. No attempt is made to promote the use of a particular system. Rather, it is intended that stockmen and administrators use the information to help design grazing plans best suited for particular range areas.
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This brochure presents the basic principles of various grazing practices and systems that might be used on National Forests and National Grasslands. No attempt is made to promote the use of a particular system. Rather, it is intended that stockmen and administrators use the information to help design grazing plans best suited for particular range areas.
The Western Range Revisited
Author: Debra L. Donahue
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service lands is so traditional that many view this use as central to the history and culture of the West. Yet the grazing program costs far more to administer than it generates in revenues, and grazing affects all other uses of public lands, causing potentially irreversible damage to native wildlife and vegetation. The Western Range Revisited proposes a landscape-level strategy for conserving native biological diversity on federal rangelands, a strategy based chiefly on removing livestock from large tracts of arid BLM lands in ten western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Drawing from range ecology, conservation biology, law, and economics, Debra L. Donahue examines the history of federal grazing policy and the current debate on federal multiple-use, sustained-yield policies and changing priorities for our public lands. Donahue, a lawyer and wildlife biologist, uses existing laws and regulations, historical documents, economic statistics, and current scientific thinking to make a strong case for a land-management strategy that has been, until now, "unthinkable." A groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, The Western Range Revisited demonstrates that conserving biodiversity by eliminating or reducing livestock grazing makes economic sense, is ecologically expedient, and can be achieved under current law.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service lands is so traditional that many view this use as central to the history and culture of the West. Yet the grazing program costs far more to administer than it generates in revenues, and grazing affects all other uses of public lands, causing potentially irreversible damage to native wildlife and vegetation. The Western Range Revisited proposes a landscape-level strategy for conserving native biological diversity on federal rangelands, a strategy based chiefly on removing livestock from large tracts of arid BLM lands in ten western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Drawing from range ecology, conservation biology, law, and economics, Debra L. Donahue examines the history of federal grazing policy and the current debate on federal multiple-use, sustained-yield policies and changing priorities for our public lands. Donahue, a lawyer and wildlife biologist, uses existing laws and regulations, historical documents, economic statistics, and current scientific thinking to make a strong case for a land-management strategy that has been, until now, "unthinkable." A groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, The Western Range Revisited demonstrates that conserving biodiversity by eliminating or reducing livestock grazing makes economic sense, is ecologically expedient, and can be achieved under current law.
Public Rangeland Improvement
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description