Over the past 15 years, our research group has consistently found management of spatial and temporal distribution of livestock grazing is critical to achieving agricultural production and conservation goals. The central challenge facing livestock managers on rangelands is that livestock preferentially select certain sensitive aquatic and riparian habitats due in part to availability of drinking water and forage. Concentrated herbivory, trampling, and fecal-urine deposition in critical areas leads to impairment of ecological functions and services. It also results in inefficient use of forage across management units. Successful implementation of livestock distribution practices to control the season, intensity, and duration of grazing
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.