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- Library Collection RecordIn recent years the GSSA has made major efforts to become more professional in its approach to managing and growing the Society. In the modern world, the Society is competing for members’ time and…
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis organization was established to promote grassfed livestock, establish legal criteria for use of the term, and communicate its value to industry and consumers.
- certification
- grazing
- Organic agriculture
- diet
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis site focuses on research and outreach on the diverse managed ecosystems that comprise California rangelands. We study and promote management to support the multitude of services that…Publication Date 2010
- watershed management
- rangelands
- water quality
- grazing management
- grazing
- Cryptosporidium
- California
- E. coli
- ecosystem services
- Library Collection RecordThis expanded guide is designed to be an information resource for Arizona ranchers. The guide contains extension-developed information on a wide range of issues related to Arizona ranch management,…
- range management
- ranching
- grazing
- recreation
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordThe Grazing Land Conservation Initiative (GLCI) is a nationwide collaborative process of individuals and organizations working to maintain and improve the management, productivity, and health of the…
- range management
- ranching
- grazing management
- grazing
- grasslands
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordGrazing management involve manipulating the grazing animal, the forage plant, and the soil complex to obtain specific ecological and economic objectives. The successful grazing manager must…Publication Date 2023
- grazing management
- grazing intensity
- grazing
- grazing systems
- Library Collection RecordThe Department of the Interior’s final rule for Grazing Administration, issued on February 22, 1995, and effective August 21, 1995, requires that Bureau of Land Management (BLM) State Directors…
- grazing management
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordGlobal change is the sum of human-induced changes to our planet. It includes changes in atmospheric composition, changes in climate and changes in land use cause by social, political, economic,…
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGlobal change is the sum of human-induced changes to our planet. It includes changes in atmospheric composition, changes in climate and changes in land use cause by social, political, economic,…
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe 2001 U.S. General Accounting Office report to the Senate subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation. It analyzes how well the fee program is meeting the intended goals…Publication Date 1970
- recreation
- national parks
- grazing
- Library Collection RecordAdministration and relationship to environmental legislation, e.g., the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
- administration
- grazing
- Acts
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment acreage and grazing capacity summary.
- grazing
- Allotments
- assessment
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment acreage and grazing capacity summary in 1970s.
- grazing
- assessment
- Allotments
- acreage
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordThe range allotment acreage and grazing capacity summary in 1970s.
- assessment
- acreage
- grazing
- Allotments
- Arizona
- Library Collection RecordRangeland plants are a key component of the ecosystems they inhabit. They are the blanket that covers and protects the soil and the filter that purifies the water and air. Plants are the primary…Publication Date 2012
- grazing
- rangeland management
- rangeland plants
- United States
- Library Collection RecordRangelands are home to a diverse array of plants and animals. Learn more about the plants that inhabit rangelands. Some plant species are known to be poisonous to livestock and should be identified…Publication Date 2011
- ecology
- grazing
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis webpage provides a brief history of the Chilton family and their historic ranch. Also included on the site is information on the positive impacts of controlled grazing, a lawsuit filed by the…
- ranching
- endangered species
- grazing
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordCarrying capacity is the number of grazing animals a piece of land can support long term without causing harm to rangeland resources (vegetation, soils, and water). The characteristics of the land,…
- carrying capacity
- grazing
- calculation
- Library Collection RecordWhile strategies to cope with grazing vary greatly between plant species, plants in general either avoid grazing or tolerate grazing. Plants avoid grazing by reducing their accessibility or…
- defoliation
- grazing
- plants
- Library Collection RecordConcern is increasing worldwide over land degradation from grazing, particularly by livestock. While grazing by herbivores, from insects to elephants, is a natural process, grazing that destroys…Publication Date 2005
- grazing capacity
- grazing
- livestock
- herbivores
- Library Collection RecordMonitoring gathers information about how rangelands respond to management over time. This information can be used to make changes in management. A good monitoring program provides information on…Publication Date 2005
- grazing
- plant response
- monitoring techniques
- habitat improvement
- Library Collection RecordThis is a description of a research project entitled "Reducing Wildfire Spread with Targeted Grazing".Publication Date 2014
- grazing
- Fire Prevention
- Idaho
- owhyee
- Library Collection RecordBy Fred Provenza. Mission is to inspire people to master and apply behavioral principles in managing ecosystems. From the Office of Arid Lands Studies.
- grazing
- animal nutrition
- Library Collection RecordDrought information for Nebraska includes; webinars, clinics, water conservation, maps and up to date assistances program information.
- weather
- watersheds
- watershed management
- water use efficiency
- water use
- water table
- water rights
- water resources
- water quality
- water pollution
- water management
- water erosion
- water conservation
- water balance
- water
- runoff
- groundwater recharge
- groundwater flow
- groundwater
- erosion control
- education
- drought
- Drainage water
- drainage
- climatic factors
- climate change
- aquifers
- Nebraska
- grazing
- recreation
- Nebraska
- Library Collection RecordThe invasion of Acacia mearnsii in the Kouga catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa, has various negative impacts on the ecosystem. These impacts include: reduced species richness, increased water use…Publication Date 2009
- Acacia mearnsii
- Wattles
- soil erosion
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- biological invasions
- alien plants
- invasive plants
- biogeography
- soil management
- soil moisture
- Soils alien invasive species
- soil nutrients
- conservation
- restoration ecology
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract The Addo Elephant National Park (AENP) is the only existing national park situated in succulent thicket. This unique veld type is endemic to the Eastern Cape, and forms an important centre…Publication Date 1998
- Addo Elephant National Park
- flora
- Elephants
- Nature reserves
- management
- biodiversity
- degradation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2009
- agriculture
- plant production
- grazing
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe following dissertation sets out to investigate the decline of agriculture in Mission location at Butterworth, Transkei, using the Rehabilitation Scheme as a benchmark. The scheme was introduced…Publication Date 2003
- agriculture
- South Africa
- Transkei
- land use
- land tenure
- soil erosion
- politics
- policies
- communal farming
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiomass burning contributes significantly to the global concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere (Fishman et al., 2003, Kaufman et al., 1998). The African continent is…Publication Date 2010
- Air
- pollution
- earth sciences
- remote sensing
- image processing
- fire ecology
- groundcover fires
- environmental aspects
- southern Africa
- Savanna ecology
- biomass
- greenhouse gases
- savanna
- carbon dioxide
- Methane
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effects of fire and mechanical clearing were investigated for their potential in assisting with the eradication of Chromolaena odorata (previously Eupatorium odoratum). The study was divided into…Publication Date 2006
- Alien invasive species
- fire
- management
- restoration ecology
- drought
- savanna
- grassland
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe 28-month study assessed the impacts of five syntopic medium-sized mammalian browsers and one fire event in a woodland savanna in the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe. Aspects of herbivory, mechanical…Publication Date 2011
- antelopes
- Zimbabwe
- Duikers
- Bushbuck
- kudu
- seed dispersal
- grazing
- ecosystem ecology
- fire ecology
- savanna
- nutrients
- game plant production
- germination
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCities must go further and further away to find new, more costly sources of water for human consumption while industries and agriculture continue to compete for increasingly scarce water resources.…Publication Date 2011
- Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve
- water resources
- environmental economics
- ecosystem services
- nature reserve
- water
- Economic Aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordGlobally, ecosystems provide services of almost twice the value of global gross national product (Costanza et al., 2006). The Buffalo City Municipality (BCM), South Africa contains biodiversity of…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity conservation
- South Africa
- Buffalo City
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- conservation
- mapping
- degradation
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis research investigated the role played by traditional leaders in environmental governance in the context of decentralization, based on a case study of grass utilization in QwaQwa. Specifically,…Publication Date 2008
- biodiversity
- conservation
- agriculture
- environmental aspects
- grasses
- South Africa
- QwaQwa
- grassland ecology
- veld grass
- grasswork
- tribal government
- chiefdoms
- environmental policy
- subsistence agriculture
- communal farming
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand use and land transformation are major threats to biodiversity. Only a small percentage of land and thus biodiversity is protected within reserves. The majority of biodiversity lies in the hands…Publication Date 2010
- biodiversity
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Agrobiodiversity
- Agricultural ecology
- veld
- landscape assessment
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- plant production
- grassland
- savanna
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- grazing
- fire ecology
- soil erosion
- commercial agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and Afrikaans. Also issued in printed format.Publication Date 2007
- birds
- mammals
- ecology
- grasslands
- diet selection
- ecology
- game animals
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso issued on CD-ROM. Summary available in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2007
- cattle
- animal production
- forage quality
- management
- diet selection
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2005
- cattle
- nutrition
- animal production
- forage quality
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCommonage is land that is usually found adjacent to a town, which is owned by the local municipality and acquired through state grants or, historically, through the church. Since the new government…Publication Date 2009
- commonage
- land reform
- common property resource
- adaptive co-management
- Subsistence farming
- management
- land use
- grazing
- Sustainable utilisation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordInternationally there is an increasing focus on involving local communities in natural resource management and monitoring. Monitoring methods which are professionally driven appear to be inadequate…Publication Date 2009
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- natural resources
- management
- Community development
- citizen participation
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- social aspects
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- natural resources
- monitoring
- communal farming
- conservation
- biodiversity
- rangelands
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe decommissioning of mines and mining-related activities brings about the onset of rehabilitation. A legacy that most coal mines must address is the rehabilitation of the coal discard dumps that…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- mining
- rehabilitation
- restoration ecology
- soils
- grass
- seeds
- fertiliser
- management
- soil nutrients
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAlso available on CD-ROM. Accompanying map and table in pocket at back of book. (copy one) Accomapnying map and table available on level 3 (copy two) Summary in English and Afrikaans. Vegetation…Publication Date 2007
- ecology
- grasslands
- mapping
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordNo abstract available.Publication Date 2005
- Endemic plants
- phytogeography
- alien plants
- alien invasive plants
- Floristics
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract: The KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg, South Africa, is predominantly a grassland ecosystem maintained by fire. The effect of the current burning regime on invertebrate and flowering forb diversity…Publication Date 2006
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- species richness
- invertebrates
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe spatial and temporal patterns of fire in Africa south of the equator are described and investigated to test hypotheses on the main drivers of fire. In particular, the relative importance of…Publication Date 2010
- fire ecology
- Savanna ecology
- southern Africa
- vegatation dynamics
- fires
- environmental aspects
- satellite imagery
- modelling
- global change
- rainfall
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand degradation is a global problem affecting many countries including South Africa. This study was conducted in order to assess and monitor the nature and extent of land degradation within Qoqodala…Publication Date 2009
- geographic information systems
- South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- remote sensing
- land degradation
- monitoring
- GIS
- indigenous encroaching species
- erosion
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Grassland biome of South Africa has been identified as critically endangered and the biome in South Africa most requiring conservation attention through the implementation of efficient,…Publication Date 2007
- grassland ecology
- South Africa
- grassland
- conservation
- natural resources
- grassland biome
- biodiversity
- degradation
- soil erosion
- Alien invasive species
- indigenous encroaching species
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Ngorongoro Crater is a volcanic caldera located within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. The Crater comprises a flat grassland plain surrounded by steep, bushy walls. It contains…Publication Date 2006
- grasslands
- conservation
- cattle
- fire ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- monitoring
- vegetation dynamics
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe effect of livestock type (cattle-to-sheep ratio) and stocking rate on grassland species richness and vegetation composition were tested using two long-term trials in Highland Sourveld Grassland…Publication Date 2007
- grasslands
- grazing
- South Africa
- KwaZulu - Natal
- plant diversity
- grazing
- environmental aspects
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- stocking rates
- grassland
- species richness
- fire
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA history ofland degradation is reconstructed in a part of the dividing ridge between the Great Fish and Keiskamma rivers, in Peddie District, former Ciskei. The study entails a comparative…Publication Date 1997
- land use
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- erosion
- degradation
- Tenure
- land use
- Subsistence farming
- Commercial farming
- Traditional management
- betterment villages
- Aerial Photographs
- GIS
- southern Africa