Grazing Versus Ecosystem Conservation: Managed Grazing Techniques Must

Grazing Versus Ecosystem Conservation Managed Grazing Techniques Must be ImplementedOne of the major issues confronting western America is that of environmental conservation and protection versus plain essentials and needs. This issue includes the environmentalists fight against herbicides and pesticides, reservoirs for irrigation water, and lineage grazing on usual land. The joust that this essay confronts will be that of the desire to use public land for gillyflower grazing versus the importance of preserving the rangeland ecosystem. Importance is found on each side of this controversy by various groups of people. What will there be for tomorrows generation if the ecosystems of public lands are not preserved? Where will the meat come from for todays generation if the nations cattle ranches do not have enough food to raise their livestock? I believe that the answer to both these questions lies in the solution of both economical and ecological sustainability. Although overgrazi ng in past history has greatly damaged rangeland ecosystems of today, uphold economy and ecology can coexist in harmony, not through environmentalists visions of cattleless rangelands or through cattlemens aspirations of unchecked rangeland grazing, but rather through managed grazing techniques and practices. This controversy has emerged mainly because of overgrazing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (CAST lineage). Due to their lack of knowledge and experience, ranchers, the public, and the government all supported year-round grazing of rangelands. It helped to gain the economy by allowing ranchers to produce more cattle. However, all three of these groups soon found that the boost in the economy resulti... ...-Ecology and Management of Annual Rangelands. Comp. Stephen B. Monsen. Ogden United States section of Agriculture Forest go Intermountain Range Station, 1994. 414-416. Stevens, Allan R. and John F. Vallentine. Use of Livestock to Control Cheatgrass-A Revie w. Proceedings-Ecology and Management of Annual Rangelands. Comp. Stephen B. Monsen. Ogden United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Intermountain Range Station, 1994. 202-205. Tipton, F.H. Cheatgrass, Livestock, and Rangeland. Proceedings-Ecology and Management of Annual Rangelands. Comp. Stephen B. Monsen. Ogden United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Intermountain Range Station, 1994. 414- 416. Vavra, Martin. Public Land and Natural Resource Issues Confronting Animal Scientists and Livestock Producers. Journal of Animal Sciences. 76 (1998) 2340-45.