Tools for Management for Grassland Ecosystem Sustainability: Thinking "Outside the Box"

Abstract

Grassland ecosystem management is dynamic and has adapted to the development of new tools and ideas. Our ancestors were indirectly managing grasslands when they learned to move livestock to take advantage of better water and greener forage. One could argue that even their hunting of grassland wildlife, especially the use of fire to drive animals to waiting hunters, had an influence on local grassland ecology.Individual papers from this publication

Parent Publication

• Assessment of grassland ecosystem conditions in the Southwestern United States. Vol. 1

Citation

Gottfried, Gerald J. 2004. Tools for Management for Grassland Ecosystem Sustainability: Thinking "Outside the Box". In: Finch, Deborah M., Editor. 2004. Assessment of grassland ecosystem conditions in the Southwestern United States. Volume 1. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-135-vol. 1. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 142-163