ABSTRACT
In a two-year study, the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Developing Strategies for Rangeland Management examined at length the scientific, political, economic, legal, and social issues arising from the BLM's stewardship role. This book, reporting the findings and recommendations of the NAS committee, contains over eighty professional papers presented at workshops designed to assess forage allocation, inventory of rangeland resources, impact of grazing intensity and specialized grazing systems on the use and value of rangeland, manipulative range improvements, application of socioeconomic techniques to range management decision making, and political and legal aspects of range management.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|570 pages
FORAGE ALLOCATION ON ARID AND SEMIARID GRAZING LANDS
part 2|296 pages
INVENTORY OF RANGELAND RESOURCES
part 3|300 pages
IMPACTS OF GRAZING INTENSITY AND SPECIALIZED I O GRAZING SYSTEMS ON THE USE AND VALUE OF RANGELAND
part 4|260 pages
MANIPULATIVE RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
part 5|262 pages
APPLYING SOCIOECONOMIC TECHNIQUESIC TO RANGE MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING
part 6|330 pages
LEGAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF RANGE MANAGEMENT