Multiple use and sustainable yield have been the guidelines for natural resource management, rangelands included. Modifications to land tenure as a result to the Energy Reform privileges mining and oil activities on the rangelands, in spite their aptitude and potentials to produce goods and services demanded by society. The anticipated implications of this new legislation would be: land and water grabbing, soil disturbance, seismic events, contamination of land soil water air, modification of the biota, incidence of diseases and socioeconomic problems. Fracking is the new buzzword which calls us to debate for their ecological economic and social implications of it utilization in the exploitation of a nonrenewable resources such as minerals, oil, shale gas in rangelands.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.