Grazing Versus Ecosystem Conservation: Managed Grazing Techniques Must

graze Versus Ecosystem Conservation Managed Grazing Techniques Must be ImplementedOne of the major issues confronting western the States is that of environmental conservation and protection versus agricultural essentials and needs. This issue includes the environmentalists fight against herbicides and pesticides, reservoirs for irrigation water, and blood line grazing on public land. The controversy that this essay confronts will be that of the desire to use public land for pedigree grazing versus the brilliance 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 be 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(prenominal) these questions lies in the solution of both economical and ecological sustai nability. Although overgrazing in past history has greatly modify rangeland ecosystems of today, sustained deliverance and ecology can coexist in harmony, not through with(predicate) 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 ordinal centuries (CAST Livestock). Due to their lack of knowledge and experience, ranchers, the public, and the government all support year-round grazing of rangelands. It helped to boost the economy by allowing ranchers to produce more(prenominal) cattle. However, all three of these groups soon found that the boost in the economy resulti... ...-Ecology and caution of one-year castlands. Comp. Stephen B. Monsen. Ogden United States Department of Agriculture Forest helper Intermountain Range Station, 1994. 414-416. Stevens, Allan R. and John F. Vallentine. Use of Livestock to Control Cheatgrass-A Review. 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. diary of Animal Sciences. 76 (1998) 2340-45.