History Flashcards
1
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Timeline/History of Range Mgmt
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- pastoral tribes in asia/africa grazed livestock
- global indigenous use of fire as mgmt tool for habitat maintenance, vegetation patterns/growth
- 1540 domesticated livestock in US
- 1862 Homestead Act –livestock industry proliferates
2
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What is the Range Problem?
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aka Tragedy of the Commons
1860’s-1915
essentially: economics over ecology
more cattle = more money
overstocking, overgrazing, loss of vegetation
ultimately led to creation of multiple federal agencies to oversee
3
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Clementsian Successional Theory
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rest, seasonal grazing, noxious plants, reseeding
very linear process
1915
4
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Fed Agencies Formed after Tragedy of the Commons
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1930’s
BLM
Soil Conservation Service
5
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Taylor Grazing Act
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no indiscriminate grazing
1934
6
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Society for Range Mgmt
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formed 1948
7
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Dyksterhuis model
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condition/mgmt of range based on quantitative ecology
1949
8
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Multiple Uses of Rangelands became a concept in…
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1960’s
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