Chapter 8: Rangelands
I. Introduction
II. Home On The Range
A. What Are Rangelands?
In order to better visualize the various rangeland
types, you may want to view the pictures listed here.
B. Rangeland Goods And Services
For a chart listing the sources and percent of total BLM revenue click
here.
For other charts and information such as estimated recreational use
of public lands, click here.
For data on the area, ownership and disposition of the country's natural
resources, you may wish to view the U.S.
Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2000, Section
24: Natural Resources No. 1146.
For a chart showing federal collections from various activities on
the public lands, see Bureau
of Land Management, Public Rewards from Public Lands 2000.
C. Impacts Of Grazing On Rangelands
With respect to Charles Wilkinson's Camp Creek
excerpt, you might view these images
to give the excerpt context.
For before-and-after pictures of land and
riparian areas damaged by grazing, click here.
Additionally, you can find more images of grazing impacts here.
The following two BLM brochures describe the
process for assessing the condition of rangelands. The first contains
example images in Appendix E and the second contains useful diagrams.
* 1. Process for
Assessing Proper Functioning Condition
* 2. Process
for Assessing Proper Functioning Condition for Lentic-
Wetland Riparian Areas
Additional BLM brochures can be found
here.
The following BLM chart
lists the conditions of riparian-wetland areas in the various states.
Questions and Discussion (page 889-91)
3. Click here
for a world map showing the areas vulnerable to desertification.
7. Click here
for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification website.
D. The Passions Stirred By Public Lands Grazing
Questions and Discussion (pages 896-900)
2. The following web site shows the long-term contribution
trends to political candidates from livestock
interests and from environmental
groups. The Annenberg Public Policy Center also published information
about spending on issue advertising. See
Annenberg Public Policy Center, Issue Advocacy Advertising Through the
Presidential Primary 1999-2000 Election Cycle.
4. Western
Folklife Center
III. Carving Up The Commons: A Brief History Of Ranchers'
Efforts To Control Western Rangelands
A. The Rise Of Ranching On The Public Commons
B. Fence Law
C. Initial Federal Limitations On Open Access Grazing
A short video on the Dust Bowl can be found here.
D. Ending Open Access To The Public Rangelands
IV. Environmental Law Comes To The Range . . . Slowly
A. The Taylor Grazing Act As Environmental Law
Click here
for an online version of the Taylor Grazing Act.
B. Early Range Planning Efforts
C. FLPMA: The BLM Gets An Organic Act
Click here
for an online version of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
(FLPMA).
D. PRIA: Enviromental Mandate Or More Congressional
Ambivalence?
Questions and Discussion (pages 925-28) (Natural Resources Defense
Council)
E. Can The Grazing Statutes Be Made To Work For The
Environment?
Questions and Discussion (pages 938-39)
3. Click here
for the BLM handbook, which includes a link to the BLM's Land Use Planning
Handbook.
Problem Exercise: Determining Whether Public Lands
Are Chiefly Valuable for Grazing
Petitioners
Statement of Reasons in Support of Rulemaking (October, 1998)
V. Rangeland Reform
A. Grazing Fees And Subsidies
National Public Lands
Grazing Campaign
B. Privatizing Grazing Permits
C. Buying Back The Range
D. Collaboration, Consensus, And Local Control
E. Grazing Reform Administrative Style
Problem Exercise : The Grand Canyon Trust Retires
Grazing Permits
Here is the website for the
Grand Canyon Trust.
VI. Intersecting Laws And Their Impact On Range Management
A. The Clean Water Act
Click here for an
online version of the Clean Water Act.
B. The Wild And Scenic Rivers Act
Click here for
an online version of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Click here for
a map of BLM wild and scenic rivers.
Click here
for a National Park Service list of wild and scenic rivers by state.
C. The Endangered Species Act
Click here
for an online version of the Endangered Species Act.
VII. Grazing On State Lands
Questions and Discussion (pages 975-78) (Idaho Watersheds Project)
7. Here are the links to the further reading and relevant web sites
mentioned in the note.
http://www.wildearthguardians.org/WildPlaces/PublicLandsPolicyReform/RetiringGrazingPermits/tabid/131/Default.aspx
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/grazing/index.html
http://www.rangebiome.org
http://www.westernwatersheds.org
http://rangelandswest.arid.arizona.edu/rangelandswest/
http://www.beefusa.org/
