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This report from the rangeland ecology and grazing management group of the
terrestrial ecology staff of the Science Integration Team (SIT) is intended to
summarize analyses that address specific rangeland issues as they relate to
broader issues to be used in the development of EIS alternatives. Portions of
these analyses are necessarily dependent on methods and results derived from
other components of the SIT, particularly other terrestrial groups, landscape
ecology, and aquatic/riparian components. Likewise, information presented
here does not represent all rangeland ecology and grazing management inputs to
related issues and analyses; it is merely a convenient way to address certain
topics and provide some direct technology transfer undiluted by the
integration process.
Where methods are described in detail elsewhere and referenced within the
overall assessment, discussion is centered on the implications relative to
specific rangeland analyses and interpretations.
This report emphasizes the biophysical components of past, present, and
possible future conditions from which social implications may be inferred in
other sections of the assessment. The synthesis of scientific knowledge and
analyses relative to these biophysical components also emphasize the organism,
community, and association levels of interrelationships and interdependencies
from which broad scale interpretations are made based on ecosystem
classification and/or regionalization of similar environmental
characteristics.

source: introduction