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Home on the Range: Helping to understand residential development of U.S. rangelands
Author
Rocky Mountain Research Station
Publisher
USFS
Publication Year
[2019]
Body

Residential development has had a particularly significant impact on rangeland ecosystems, including wildlife habitat reduction and fragmentation, altered hydrology and water quality, and decreased availability of natural and recreational goods and services. It’s a growing issue, as an additional 5.6 million acres of U.S. rangelands are expected to make way for residential development in the next two decades or so, with more than 1 million of those acres in California and Texas alone.

Language
English
Resource Type
Text
Document Type
Technical Report
Collection
Keywords
human dimensions
monitoring
inventory
resilience
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