Overgrazing

BLM agreed to allow an additional 100 cattle (for a total of 1,200 head) in exchange for Split Rock’s commitment to provide a full-time employee to assist with herding compliance, which would help to even out grazing across the acreage and reduce overgrazing of some at-risk areas, especially riparian areas.8 It issued a final Notice of Decision in October 2009, granting Split Rock a 10-year grazing permit under the terms of the Proposed Decision with these negotiated…

Is it important to maintain the colonies of prairie dogs in Colorado? What exactly makes prairie dogs so important? Who supports them and fights for them, and what is killing them? Prairie dogs, like many other livings on Earth, are valuable to our ecosystem. They are responsible for keeping the cycle of life going and helping to maintain a healthy structure in the wild, both as predator and prey. There are wildlife activists who support prairie dogs and who support non-lethal methods of…

Have you ever seen or heard of a drought so bad that it turned nice green hills into a desert of sand and dirt? Starting in the 1930s, in the eastern part of the country, a very bad drought did just that. It made its way west, and by 1934 it turned the Great Plains into a desert. In 1935 this drought was dubbed the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl had a huge effect on the daily lives of people and their homes, it wreaked havoc on their economy, and destroyed their land. First and foremost, the Dust…

has caused an increase in demand for food products including meat. The increase in demand for meat has caused Chinese cattle herders to increase the number of animals that graze on the available grassland. This increase has caused significant overgrazing and loss of available land used by herders. The loss of available grazing land has facilitated the transition to including more chicken and pork into China’s diet. However, China cannot produce enough soybeans to make the feed for these…

Morocco lies on the northwest corner of Africa. The country roughly covers an area twice the size of the United Kingdom. In the middle of the country are two snow capped mountain chains,the Middle Atlas and the High Atlas. South of the High Atlas Mountains lie the Anti-Atlas Mountains. Morocco generally has mild winters and hot summers. Morocco is a monarchy country. The prime minister is head of government and is appointed by the king. Regional councils have authority and funding to oversee…

land degradation problem of major importance in the arid regions of the world. Deterioration in soil and plant cover have adversely affected nearly 50 percent of the land areas as the result of human mismanagement of cultivated and range lands. Overgrazing and woodcutting are responsible for most of the desertification of rangelands, cultivation practices inducing accelerated water and wind…

Ted Talks is a great resource to learn countless new things about a vast variety of topics. This Ted Talk which was focused on climate change was nothing different. The speaker giving the presentation is Allan Savory who is an ecologist and worked heavily in areas of drought and desertification. Desertification is land that is turning to desert which is caused by too much bare ground. This process is the main point of the presentation and Savory explains what it is and how to counteract it with…

“ I couldn’t possibly write Jaws today at least, not in a good conscience anyway,” said Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws. On the other hand, all sharks are different from each other, just like the saying “no two snowflakes are the same” I think it’s the same with sharks no two sharks are the same. However, sharks make me think because they all have their own different identities and none are exactly the same and I wish to have a baby shark sometime in my lifetime. Better yet, I would want a…

With wolves around ungulates no longer overgrazing the riparian areas, staying in one place too long makes prey vulnerable, keeping the riparian area in a healthy balance between overgrowth and overgrazing allows the beaver to thrive (Hannibal). There are many benefits that can be found from increasing the beaver population such as increasing the water yield available to…

The soil is eroding, weeds are destroying native grasses, and brush is becoming overgrown. Overgrazing causes soil exposure and eventually soil erosion which diminishes vegetation regrowth which then leads to more erosion. This then allows non-native plants, which livestock do not like to eat, to overrun the native plants. Also, trampling of the…