Saval Ranch Project - An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Intensive Cattle Grazing Management

摘要

The Saval Ranch is a commercial cattle enterprise in northeastern Nevada. Public lands on the grazing allotments are managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. The area is rich in natural resources. As such, the ranch offers many and varied opportunities to develop and test hypotheses about the effects of cattle grazing treatments on the total ecosystem and on economics under environmental and political realities. An integrated approach to resource management under real-life situations has been lacking in the sagebrush-grass ecosystem. Such an approach is necessary for ultimate commercial application of results.