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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008

    Growing recognition that periodic fire is critical for maintaining the health of many rangeland ecosystems and concerns over more frequent catastrophic wildfires have focused attention on prescribed fire as an ecosystem restoration and fuel management tool. In states such as Texas, where most land is privately owned, the level of success of outreach activities aimed at expanding the adoption of specific management practices is influenced by the extent to which landowners' perceptions, interests, and concerns regarding such practices are addressed.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008
    Ethiopia

    In the last three decades, the Borana rangelands of Southern Ethiopia have been deteriorating due to unsustainable utilization. This paper analyses the changes in indigenous range management among the Borana pastoralists and the role of development interventions.The fieldwork was carried out during 2000-2002, following a severe drought. Two locations, Dida Hara and Web, that once were part of a large grazing system with seasonally distinct herd movements, experienced differences in development interventions.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008

    Scattering slash (downed woody materials) after tree removal is increasingly prescribed by land managers as a treatment to promote the establishment and growth of understory vegetation in pinyon-juniper woodlands. However, the effects of scattering slash on soil resources and plant communities are poorly understood and often confounded with the release from tree competition.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008

    Agistment is the practice of temporarily moving stock between properties, and is used by pastoralists both to strategically develop their enterprises and as a response to environmental heterogeneities such as variation in rainfall. This paper considers the agistment market in the northern Australian rangelands using the 'market failure framework'. This form of economic analysis identifies failings in a market, thus, provides a rigorous basis for designing interventions intended to improve market performance.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Turkey

    The objective of this study was to determine the most suitable method (or methods) to improve in the rangelands around Samsun-Turkey rangelands between 1993 and 1999. The 12 management treatments in this study included control, aeration, burning, herbicide application, fertilization, over-sowing, ploughing + resowing and a combination of all the treatments. A mixture of seeds consisting of alfalfa, sainfoin, smooth bromegrass, orchardgrass and blue wheatgrass was used for oversowing and in the ploughing + resowing plots.

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