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- Library Collection RecordAlthough human influence across rural landscapes is often discussed, interactions between the native, natural systems and human activities are challenging to measure explicitly. We assessed the…Publication Date 2014-03
- Anthropogenic inuence
- land use
- noxious weeds
- sagebrush steppe
- semiarid ecosystem
- semiarid ecosystem
- species distributions
- Library Collection RecordThis article discusses the status of range management in Greece and its relationship to other aspects of the general economy. Since the general economy is improving rapidly, increased attention is…Publication Date 1964-11-01
- management
- Extension
- forests
- Grazing Practices
- teaching
- Aristotelion University
- Thessaloniki
- tourism
- agricultural production
- Farming Lands
- Future Development
- American Farm School
- demonstrations
- Village
- Public Works
- Stored Fodder
- patterns
- industry
- Greece
- soil conservation
- economy
- land use
- land ownership
- research
- controlled grazing
- composition
- improvement
- livestock
- forage
- range management
- Library Collection RecordDung beetles are considered keystone species because of their role in decomposition, seed dispersal, and control of vertebrate parasites in grazed habitats. Despite the ecological importance of this…Publication Date 2012-03-01
- land use
- livestock management
- natural protected areas
- Scarabacoidea
- species diversity
- Library Collection RecordA longitudinal study of California hardwood rangelands shows significant change in landowner characteristics and goals. Results of three studies spanning 1985 to 2004 were used to develop and…Publication Date 2010-05-01
- attitudes
- conservation easements
- impermanence syndrome
- land use
- management
- Quercus
- Library Collection RecordPinus sylvestris L. and Pinus mugo Turra originating from two plantations established during the 1960s are invading subalpine heathlands higher than 1 500 m above sea level in Montseny Natural Park (…Publication Date 2008-03-01
- Abies
- colonization
- land use
- Mediterranean mountains
- Pinus
- plantation
- Library Collection RecordMapping the distribution and abundance of invasive plants is a high priority, but establishing cost-effective and practical techniques at appropriate scales remains elusive. Mesquite is a highly…Publication Date 2007-07-01
- aerial surveys
- Australia
- invasive plants
- mapping
- monitoring costs
- remote sensing
- visual estimation techniques
- Library Collection RecordThe knowledge of the distribution, area, and current conservation status of relict natural grasslands dominated by the tall-tussock grass Paspalum quadrifarium Lam. (‘‘pajonal’’) in the Flooding…Publication Date 2005-07-01
- land use
- Landsat TM
- pajonal
- supervised and unsupervised classification
- Library Collection RecordOff-road military vehicle traffic is a major consideration in the management of military lands. The objective of this study was to determine the impacts of military tracked M1A1 heavy combat tank…Publication Date 2003-07-01
- rocks
- soil conservation
- military lands
- vehicles
- desert soils
- vegetation cover
- land management
- land use
- soil erosion
- dry seasons
- wet season
- forbs
- shrubs
- sediment yield
- plant litter
- grasses
- New Mexico
- military lands
- soil stability
- site recovery
- seasonal drought
- Library Collection RecordSeveral U.S. rangeland areas recently have been designated as national monuments to protect scientifically or culturally important resources. Typically recreation and livestock uses have been…Publication Date 2003-11-01
- recreation areas
- recreation users
- sociodemographic characteristics
- land use
- Utah
- Library Collection RecordSite degradation occurs mainly through deterioration of the soil's capacity to capture and store water, as well as the loss of organic matter or the accumulation of salts or other toxic…Publication Date 2004-05-01
- soil bulk density
- organic matter
- land use
- Northeast Mexico
- land degradation
- Library Collection RecordKnowledge of livestock population dynamics is important to better understand functional attributes and development potential of pastoral production systems. With a focus on the Borana system of semi-…Publication Date 2002-09-01
- pastoralism
- Ethiopia
- risk assessment
- land use
- population dynamics
- mortality
- rain
- stocking rate
- cattle
- drought
- Borana
- pastoralism
- drought
- equilibrial/non-equilibrial systems
- risk management
- Library Collection RecordCalifornia ranchers in urban Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, and in rural Tehama County, were surveyed to examine effects of increasing development, land use change, and attrition of the ranching…Publication Date 2000-07-01
- ranching
- land use
- land use planning
- urban areas
- rural areas
- farmers' attitudes
- beef production
- California
- rangelands
- land use change
- land trusts
- rangeland conversion
- ranch values
- Library Collection RecordIn Utah during the early 1990s it was theorized that substantive change was under way in the management of private grazing land. Change was thought to be spearheaded by grazing permittees who feared…Publication Date 2001-03-01
- part-time farming
- farm indebtedness
- farm surveys
- grazing tenancy
- public domain
- irrigated pastures
- risk
- investment
- land ownership
- ranching
- farmers' attitudes
- age
- range management
- rangelands
- Utah
- ranching
- hobby ranching
- land use
- technology transfer
- sustainable agriculture
- Library Collection RecordThe objectives of this Colorado study were to assess primary reasons ranchers choose to stay or sell the ranch, compare the motivations for ranching between a traditional agriculturally based county…Publication Date 2001-07-01
- public domain
- geographical variation
- urban development
- urbanization
- surveys
- land ownership
- ranching
- land use
- farmers' attitudes
- issues and policy
- profitability
- rangelands
- Colorado
- rangeland policy
- regulation
- survey
- public lands
- urban development
- land use conversion
- Library Collection RecordWe identified land uses, vegetation cover types, and landscape patterns associated with avian community diversity in 2 rural landscapes in a hardwood forest-tallgrass prairie ecotone that differ with…Publication Date 1999-09-01
- rural population
- suburban areas
- roads
- arable land
- patch size
- population change
- breeding places
- deciduous forests
- wild birds
- shrublands
- landscapes
- habitat selection
- ground cover
- land use
- population density
- ecotones
- grasslands
- brush control
- species diversity
- pastures
- Oklahoma
- wildlife management
- prairies
- Library Collection RecordWe determined rates of western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis spp. occidentalis Hook.) density and cover change during the period 1951 to 1994 at 3 adjacent sites with nearly identical elevation,…Publication Date 1999-09-01
- population growth
- aerial photography
- grassland condition
- ground cover
- land use
- seed productivity
- ecological succession
- Juniperus occidentalis
- fires
- fire effects
- leaf area index
- Oregon
- Artemisia tridentata
- plant density
- plant competition
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordTemporal changes in land use, vegetation cover types, and landscape structure were examined in a hardwood forest-tallgrass prairie ecotone in northern Oklahoma using a Geographic Information System.…Publication Date 1997-05-01
- deciduous forests
- landscape ecology
- geographic information systems
- ground cover
- land use
- population density
- species diversity
- Oklahoma
- natural grasslands
- prairies
- botanical composition
- Library Collection RecordResults of a 1985 survey of California hardwood rangeland landowners were used to develop a multi-agency research and extension program known as the Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program. In…Publication Date 1997-07-01
- surveys
- land ownership
- conservation
- land management
- landowners
- land use
- Quercus
- California
- woodlands
- Library Collection RecordCoordinated Resource Management (CRM) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) each provide an approach for involving the public and resource specialists from many disciplines in public land…Publication Date 1994-03-01
- governmental programs and projects
- program planning
- land management
- land use
- Library Collection RecordA spatial simulation model was developed to examine the community-level relationships between woody overstory and herbaceous understory. The influences of individual trees on herbaceous understory…Publication Date 1992-01-01
- Eucalyptus
- eucalyptus crebra
- Australia
- simulation models
- Prosopis glandulosa
- competitive ability
- understory
- mathematical models
- biomass production
- plant communities
- Library Collection RecordSocial science research is an important tool for guiding development of education programs for owners of private rangelands. California oak woodland, a productive and extensive range type in…Publication Date 1990-03-01
- extension education
- attitudes and opinions
- private ownership
- surveys
- land management
- landowners
- land use
- Quercus
- California
- woodlands
- rangelands
- Library Collection RecordSerrated tussock (Nassella trichotoma), a grass native to South America, has been a major economic problem in the rangelands of southeastern Australia since 1950. It currently infests 680,000 ha in…Publication Date 1984-01-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe behaviour of free-ranging cattle on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, was investigated during 2 summer grazing seasons. The main influence on cattle distribution was found to be their preferences…Publication Date 1983-11-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe chemical and botanical composition of the diets of esophageally fistulated sheep, cattle, and goats was monitored over a period of 1 year at intervals of approximately 2 months. The animals were…Publication Date 1982-01-01
- Australia
- semi-arid zone
- Library Collection RecordThe potential of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) as a possible improved pasture legume for introduction to marginal cropping areas was examined with breeding Merino ewes at four stocking rates.…Publication Date 1976-07-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe main reason for examining grazing management as a means of controlling barley grass (Hordeum leporinum) was that in marginal areas between reliable cropping and true semiarid rangeland areas, it…Publication Date 1976-09-01
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordFollowing intensive study of soils and plant communities in the Princeton area of southern British Columbia, it became apparent that photo interpretation techniques could be used to greater advantage…Publication Date 1969-01-01
- Units
- Bedrock
- aerial photos
- Princeton
- Field Mapping Guides
- Physiographic
- chernozemic soils
- Tone
- Surficial Deposits
- Micro Features
- Soils Survey
- Vegeatative Zones
- plant communities
- patterns
- drainage
- topography
- interpretation
- surveys
- texture
- soil
- British Columbia
- land use
- rangelands
- classification
- relationships
- soils
- vegetation
- Library Collection RecordAn important, yet overlooked aspect of public land management involves the economic significance to rural areas of grazing and lumber production on federal lands. To illustrate the relative…Publication Date 1969-01-01
- Federal Grazing
- Interindustry Analysis
- Lumber Production
- Mathematical Technique
- Economic Interdependence
- Department of Agricultural Economics
- Oregon State University
- Economic Activity
- Grant County
- Lumber Sector
- Economic Importance
- reduction
- land use
- public lands
- Oregon
- management
- Library Collection RecordThe national grassland program has produced a number of beneficial changes in both the land and the economy of southwestern Kansas. Through the federal purchase and conversion of marginal farmland to…Publication Date 1968-05-01
- soil erosion
- government
- rehabilitation
- animal unit month
- ponds
- Cimarron National Grassland
- adjustments
- National Grassland Program
- marginal farmland
- runoff water
- Summer Forage
- Multiple Use Management
- Recreational Opportunities
- Natural Resoruces
- Mineral Leases
- Recreational Visits
- Pipeline Easements
- Resource Use
- economy
- land use
- Kansas
- income
- wildlife
- grazing
- land
- conservation
- private lands
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1967-09-01
- Farm
- Phases
- ranch
- land use
- Natural
- grazing use
- administration
- grazing land
- change
- planning
- correlation
- forage production
- utilization
- water
- livestock
- game
- production
- conservation
- range management
- Library Collection RecordMeasurements and their statistical analysis are suggested and tested in the study of sheep distribution in an arid part of Australia. The use of aerial photography and an electronic computer make the…Publication Date 1967-03-01
- behavior patterns
- Sheep Distribution
- Mount Murchison
- Flock Size
- grazing animals
- patterns
- Times
- Australia
- New South Wales
- prediction
- aerial photography
- Kayrunnera
- Weather Conditions
- range condition
- sampling
- statistical analysis
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1950-01-01
- machines
- Pasture Cover
- Red Plains Conservation Experiment Station
- Brush Removal
- fires
- 2,4-D
- Returns from the Land
- brush cover
- woody vegetation
- Guthrie
- erosion control
- herbicides
- woody vegetation
- pastures
- clearing
- success
- land use
- methods
- grass
- 2,4,5-T
- production
- overgrazing
- forage
- Oklahoma
- rainfall
- brush control
- applications
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1952-01-01
- Lumbering
- mining
- Conservation Committees
- Gallatin Conservation Committee
- Gallatin Canyon Range
- Critical Ranges
- Acquisition
- Fish and Game
- Hunting Seasons
- Elk Distribution
- feeding
- BLM
- Bureau of Land Management
- Elk Ranges
- inventory
- farming
- West
- herding
- winter range
- management practices
- salt
- restoration
- grazing capacity
- land use
- fencing
- elk
- utilization
- palatability
- Forest Service
- game
- forage
- conservation
- problems
- Montana
- ranching
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1952-07-01
- Livestock Problems
- Ceylon
- Chena
- shifting cultivation
- rubber
- Tea
- Unirrigated Cropping
- Plantation Industries
- Coconut
- Creeping Cover
- Monsoon
- Contour Drains
- Mudding
- Maize
- milk
- soil erosion
- irrigation
- India
- land use
- legumes
- cattle
- rainfall
- drought
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1951-09-01
- Research Data
- Sustained Abundance
- technicians
- cattlemen
- stockmen
- Livestock Producer
- beef
- Soil Conservation Service
- meat production
- economics
- land use
- ranchers
- income
- Forest Service
- conservation
- erosion
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1953-11-01
- Field Rodents
- Extermination
- O'Neals
- Rangeland Concepts
- agricultural practices
- Gazing
- Forage Relationships
- Soil Relationships
- Burrows
- Game Manager
- Predator Relationships
- coyote
- Tunnels
- ground squirrels
- pocket gophers
- population pressure
- rodents
- fluctuations
- population density
- rabbits
- San Joaquin Experimental Range
- seeds
- land use
- range
- control
- protection
- erosion
- California
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1953-01-01
- Range Story
- Land Utilization Projects
- Depleted Land
- Eroding
- Land Utilization Program
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- Water Facilities
- Cooperative Management
- Crop Failure
- Establishment of Projects
- land management
- federal government
- Agricultural Economy
- farming
- administration
- Purchase
- fences
- restoration
- land use
- public lands
- grass production
- reseeding
- land
- ranching
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1953-01-01
- collaboration
- water conservation
- Sixth International Grassland Congress
- United Nations
- United States Government
- FAO
- meetings
- animal production
- farming
- animal products
- soil conservation
- land use
- weed control
- reseeding
- range improvement
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- livestock
- agriculture
- management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1952-05-01
- Range Maintenance
- land treatment
- Soil Color
- Soil Thickness
- Loams
- Clays
- Sandy Loams
- Soil Differences
- land classification
- Sands
- Character
- Status
- watersheds
- soil texture
- soil
- land use
- soil profiles
- characteristics
- range improvement
- composition
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1952-09-01
- land use
- public lands
- Cattleman of the Year Program
- promotion
- Educational Values
- Cattlemen's Associations
- beef production
- efficiency
- Ranch Property
- Appearance
- Business Management
- Civic Activities
- Community Activities
- Industry Activities
- Loy McDaniels
- J.H. "Jidge" Tippett
- improvement
- Washington
- range management
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1955-09-01
- Site Classification
- lease
- Short Term
- Arbitration
- Livestock Facilities
- Lessee
- Lessor
- Animal Value
- AUM
- land use
- animal unit month
- Renewal
- Formula
- rangelands
- price
- soil
- range
- utilization
- water
- range condition
- sheep
- cattle
- forage
- conservation
- goats
- Edwards Plateau
- Texas
- carrying capacity
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1962-11-01
- African Clovers
- Plant Introduction Program
- Baccarini
- Burchellianum
- Cheranganiense
- Polystachyum
- Pseudostriatum
- Rueppellianum
- Lancelolatum
- Semipilosum
- Steudneri
- Tembense
- Usumbarense
- Evaluating
- Australia
- temperature
- evaluation
- pastures
- Trifolium
- Kenya
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1959-07-01
- Abandoned
- vegetation sampling
- Bluegrass
- Broomsedge
- Wiregrass
- community
- Southern Illionis
- Aristida oligantha
- Andropogon virginicus
- ecology
- pastures
- consumption
- climatic conditions
- land use
- Kentucky bluegrass
- yield
- forbs
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1958-01-01
- public ownership
- private ownership
- social benefits
- zoning
- Range Policy
- Criteria
- range resources
- economics
- land use
- Welfare
- research
- conditions
- livestock
- protection
- conservation
- erosion
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1957-11-01
- U-2 Cattle Company
- Rogerson
- Harry Noh
- Black Angus
- stockwater
- livestock management
- Southern Idaho
- beef
- objectives
- rotation
- native grass
- fences
- Deferred
- land use
- public lands
- hay
- forage improvements
- brush
- grass
- improvement
- grazing
- erosion
- runoff
- ranching
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1956-03-01
- Historical Backgrounds
- Spaniards
- introduced species
- herbaceous cover
- Cattle Sheep
- rangelands
- annuals
- industry
- temperature
- land use
- precipitation
- Use
- stocking rate
- distribution
- livestock
- California
- ranching
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1955-07-01
- Seasonal Fluctuation
- life forms
- Ecological Process
- Inferior
- dominance
- Subordination
- injury
- Densities
- succession
- Superior
- Ponderosa Pine Zone
- Seasonal Use
- perennials
- Plant
- range condition
- ecology
- recovery
- evaluation
- trend
- management practices
- annuals
- land use
- mulch
- replacements
- productivity
- herbage yields
- classification
- Stocking
- grazing
- erosion
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThis material was digitized as part of a cooperative project between the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. The Journal of Range Management archives are made…Publication Date 1956-05-01
- Pens
- Flat Top Ranch
- Charles Pettit
- Tall Bunch Grasses
- Big
- Little
- Buildings
- Bosque Soil Conservation District
- Soil Supplemental Pastures
- Deferring
- ponds
- cropland
- dams
- litter
- bluestems
- woody plants
- drainage
- overstocking
- fences
- land use
- Indiangrass
- Grass Cover
- Central Texas
- range
- soil moisture
- evaporation
- reclamation
- improvement
- Sideoats grama
- control
- cover
- Library Collection RecordRange management's goal of increased profits from livestock production should be viewed within a broader context in which the professions dealing with natural resources try to bring about the…Publication Date 1965-03-01
- BLM
- Bureau of Land Management
- national parks
- profits
- outdoor recreation
- Resource Conservation Program
- Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission
- Commercial Use
- Land and Water Conservation Act
- economics
- land use
- forage production
- livestock production
- future
- public lands
- Library Collection RecordAlthough human influence across rural landscapes is often discussed, interactions between the native, natural systems and human activities are challenging to measure explicitly. We assessed the…Publication Date 2014-03
- Anthropogenic inuence
- land use
- noxious weeds
- sagebrush steppe
- semiarid ecosystem
- semiarid ecosystem
- species distributions