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Multiple uses are viewed as the most appropriate way of exploitation of the vegetation cover of rangelands. It implies harmony among users for more than one purpose, for the way in which has led to maintain productivity, goods and services of the ecosystems, as well as to contribute to the sustainability of human communities. Now with the new Mexican laws that gives priority to energy and mining production above others uses of the rangelands, such as forage production for the maintenance of livestock and wildlife, new issues and concerns arise about validity of the concepts of multiple use and sustainable use. These changes in paradigm foresee degradation of ecosystem services which contributes to the livelihoods and preservation of biological, social, economic, and patrimonial values of the stakeholders. Proposals such as the ones which will be presented at this Symposium: Current situation and challenges of cattle/wildlife operations. Habitat and wildlife recovery efforts. Habitat conservation. Endangered species recovery. Alternative use of wildlife in grasslands. Management of exotic grasses. Game species associated, are just examples of other economic activities which can be undertaken in the rangelands of Northern Mexico.