National Forest Grazing Lands
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Forest reserves
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Forest reserves
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Author : William D. Rowley
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Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1985
Category : 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.
Author : Debra L. Donahue
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1999
Category : 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.
Author : Paul R. Krausman
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Page : 460 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
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Author : James Tertius Jardine
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Agriculture
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Forest reserves
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Author : United States. Forest Service. Southern Region
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Forests and forestry
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