This presentation will discuss an innovative approach to large scale public land grazing management in northern Utah.� Inspired by the ecologic and economic progress of a neighboring large private land ranch (200,000 acres) that implemented time-controlled grazing in the late 1970s, several visionary permittees and a county commission decided it was time to replicate the grazing strategy on 143,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM), US Forest Service (USFS), private, and State and Institutional Trust Lands (SITLA) lands. �This unit is a combination of 10 separate allotments (5-BLM and 5-USFS) into one management unit called the Three Creeks Allotment. Three Creeks is an important area for Sage Grouse, Mule Deer, and Bonneville Cut Throat Trout, all of which have increased on the neighboring private land ranch model. We will discuss the social, economic, and ecologic barriers encountered in the complex political climate of environmentalism and public land management bureaucracy.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.