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1977
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Efficient land utilization is essential to meet the growing requirements of an expanding population. The large low-producing pinyonjuniper woodland of the United States offers potential for increased production to meet additional livestock, wildlife, and watershed needs. Through a multiple-use planning process which determines areas suitable for increasing production by mechanical conversion of vegetative types and an environmental analysis procedure which determines the benefits and adverse impacts of such actions, decisions can be made to undertake treatment in an environmentally acceptable manner. The Bureau of Land Management has mechanically converted over 200,000 hectares of pinyon-juniper to a more diversified and productive shrub-grass type. Though environmental impacts are substantial with regard to esthetic values, vegetation removal, and disrupted animal communities, the productivity of treated sites has increased significantly. Environmental and economic benefits reflect positive advantages in undertaking this type of conversion program as an aid to rangeland management production.
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Leavell, William Gordon, "Aid to rangeland management. Mechanical type conversion of woodland areas" (1977). IGC Proceedings (1977-2023). 11.
(URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/igc/1977/sess5/11)
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Aid to rangeland management. Mechanical type conversion of woodland areas
Efficient land utilization is essential to meet the growing requirements of an expanding population. The large low-producing pinyonjuniper woodland of the United States offers potential for increased production to meet additional livestock, wildlife, and watershed needs. Through a multiple-use planning process which determines areas suitable for increasing production by mechanical conversion of vegetative types and an environmental analysis procedure which determines the benefits and adverse impacts of such actions, decisions can be made to undertake treatment in an environmentally acceptable manner. The Bureau of Land Management has mechanically converted over 200,000 hectares of pinyon-juniper to a more diversified and productive shrub-grass type. Though environmental impacts are substantial with regard to esthetic values, vegetation removal, and disrupted animal communities, the productivity of treated sites has increased significantly. Environmental and economic benefits reflect positive advantages in undertaking this type of conversion program as an aid to rangeland management production.
