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Develop a holistic approach to grazing management; understand rancher’s business approach, lands used, water management and competing demands from other resources and multiple uses

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Approach

Develop a holistic approach to grazing management; understand rancher’s business approach, lands used, water management and competing demands from other resources and multiple uses.

Tactics

  • Modify flexibility in timing, duration, and intensity of authorized grazing.
  • Use grazing as a tool to achieve desired conditions - holistic grazing, target grazing on noxious weeds.
  • Consider novel ways to manage grazing.
  • Minimize impacts by designing more efficient livestock water developments (e.g. shutoff valves for tanks, protect spring sources).

Sensitivity

Strategy

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station., Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L., eds. (2017). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Blue Mountains. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-939. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station., Peterson, D.L.; Halofsky, J.E. (2018). Adapting to the effects of climate change on natural resources in the Blue Mountains, USA. Climate Services. 10: 63–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2017.06.005., ,

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Climate Change Effect

Relevant Region

Northern Plains
Northwest
Southwest