Sentences with word «rangeland»

For instance, satellite imagery could be used to test whether it predicts the collapse of rangelands in the western United States and other places because of invasion of weeds or desertification, he says.

She earned a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Chicago, and a Master's degree in Rangeland Management from UC Berkeley.

«In countries like the U.K. and Ireland, and on rangelands where rainfall is too unreliable for much crop production, we should continue to encourage and make possible ruminant production.»

The wind then does the rest, removing the soil and converting productive rangeland into desert.

In the northern rangelands of Tanzania, communities of pastoralists and hunter - gatherers have sustainably lived off the land for generations, in coexistence with migrating native wildlife.

After hand - pulling and herbicides failed, they sought help from rangeland ecologist Jeff Creque, who suggested bringing the cattle back, but managing them in a different way to mimic the grazing habits of native elk (a la holistic management, an approach not without controversy).

For some problems, such as rangeland degradation and logging of old - growth forests, the relationship is weak (but not insignificant).

Tacita Dean's interest in landscape phenomena has taken her around the world: from the unspoilt wilderness of Bodmin Moor in England to the open rangelands of Wyoming in the American West to film a rare solar eclipse.

We thank C. Bullen, E. February, F. Fye, G. Haynes, M. Mukelabai, P. Mushove (deceased) D. Ngwako, The Botswana Department of Agriculture, Rangeland Ecology Division, The Zambian Meteorological Department, The Zimbabwe Forest Industries Training Center, Mutare, The Zimbabwe Forestry Commision, The Zimbabwe Forest Research Center, Harare.

The work of Teague et al. — colleagues and prior coauthors of Mr. Briske — make clear what ranchers employing Mr. Savory's methods have known for decades: «Our study contradicts a recent review of rangeland grazing studies (Briske et al., 2008) which suggested MP grazing does not improve vegetation or animal production relative to continuous grazing.

The team has been searching under the high summer sun without success for the fossil - rich strata that braid through the arid rangeland here.

The Bendleby Ranges have wonderful eagle vistas of surrounding rangelands with magnificent red gum studded creeks.

Both book and app will be distributed via the University of Idaho Rangeland Center and the Idaho Range Resource Commission.

Dietary overlap between sympatric dingoes and feral cats at a semiarid rangeland site in Western Australia

According to the federal forecast, national pasture and rangeland conditions are at record lows, and 39 % of the U.S. winter wheat crop was rated poor or very poor, up from 25 % last year.

To answer John's questions, the MCP worked with researchers at the University of California to study the effects of amending rangeland soils with compost.

The top five states with potential for converting rangelands or pastures were Texas, California, Montana, New Mexico and Colorado.

A full - service firm, Rangeland supports the entire life cycle of a project, from feasibility studies to detailed engineering design to commissioning to startup.

Rangelands provided about a quarter of Australia's grazing country for sheep.

The 2018 topic is «Western Rangeland Management.»

«We often talk about climate change and how it will affect us in the future, but the truth is we are already seeing those changes,» said Camille Stevens - Rumann, assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at CSU.

For instance, cattle moved from east Texas to Las Cruces, N.M. took more than a year to start munching on four - winged saltbush and other local shrubs that dominate the local menu, according to Derek Bailey, an animal and rangeland specialist at New Mexico State University.

This project page will reside on the Idaho Rangeland Center web site.

In 2005 Tom joined the California Program of The Nature Conservancy where the focus was a mix of private rangeland conservation and engagement on federal lands management.

Department of Animal and Rangeland Sciences, Oregon State University, 112 Withycombe Hall, 2921 Southwest Campus Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA.

If you ever seen rangeland that's been heavily impacted by grazing you'll quickly see a potential problem with this approach.

The first law, the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978, set a formula for calculating grazing fees based on beef prices and rancher costs.

In Kenya, for example, NativeEnergy teamed with The Nature Conservatory and Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) to create a soil sequestration project

Under Loure's leadership, UCRT has protected more than 200,000 acres of rangeland through CCROs.

In Oceania, organic land increased by a 42 %, which was mainly due to rangeland areas shifting to organic production in Australia.

As a result, the desert rangelands are losing their fine - grained material.

Marin Carbon Project A joint effort by scientists and ranchers in California to study rangeland's potential to soak up carbon.

On the surface, they might not have much in common — a Maasai man from the northern Tanzania rangelands and a white Australian woman from coal country.

A $ 45 MILLION package has given a great kick - start to the Gascoyne Murchison Strategy (GMS) plan initiated by pastoralists in rangeland WA.

The process began where the animals were raised, generally on lightly stocked rangelands in the interior.

Kangaroos» soft feet mean that «growing» a couple of kilos of kangaroo meat in Australia's fragile rangelands has much less impact on native vegetation than a couple of kilos of sheep or cattle.

In the «greenhouse gas offset» industry, carbon farming is now a codified methodology for creating carbon offsets from rangeland composting (a primary practice of carbon farming).

Adding crop, pasture and rangeland together gives a total area under certified organic production, in 1997, of around 0.2 percent of United States agricultural land16.

While cropland benefited from this expansion and accounted for about 63 percent if the total organic farmland in 1997, the area of organic pastures and rangelands declined to just below 37 percent.

Their cattle graze on «compost - treated rangeland» that helps promote the growth of perennial grasses.