Grazing and Public Rangelands
Title | Grazing and Public Rangelands PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Law |
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Public Rangelands Continue to Deteriorate
Title | Public Rangelands Continue to Deteriorate PDF eBook |
Author | United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Grazing |
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U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands
Title | U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands PDF eBook |
Author | William D. Rowley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
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The early luxury of free forage on unclaimed western public domain allowed the building of fortunes in cattle and sheep and offered opportunities to successive waves of settlement. But the western public lands could not last. The range became overgrazed, overstocked, overcrowded. Animals were lost, much range was irreversible damaged, and even violence occurred as cowmen, sheepmen, and settlers competed for the best forage. Congress intervened by designating the U.S. Forest Service as the pioneer grazing control agency. The Forest Service's controls represent not only attempts to protect a resource but also a social experiment designed to prevent the monopolization of rangelands by large outfits and to encourage small enterprises. The Forest Service has become the undisputed leader in bringing order, rationality, and economic use to the range resources under government supervision. The problems and continuing challenges of the task emerge in these pages.
Managing the Public Rangelands
Title | Managing the Public Rangelands PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Land Management |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Government publications |
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Grazing Fees and Public Rangeland Management
Title | Grazing Fees and Public Rangeland Management PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Grazing |
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Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978
Title | Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Resources |
Publisher | |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Government publications |
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The Western Range Revisited
Title | The Western Range Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Debra L. Donahue |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780806132983 |
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.