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PhysOrg: Eight researchers in a new report have suggested that climate change is causing additional stress to many western rangelands, and as a result land managers should consider a significant reduction, or in some places elimination of livestock and other large animals from public lands.
A growing degradation of grazing lands could be mitigated if large areas of Bureau of Land Management and USDA Forest Service lands became free of use by livestock and "feral ungulates" such as wild horses and burros,......
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Climate change increases stress, need for restoration on grazed public lands
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 14th, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation