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Conservation grazing or targeted grazing [1] is the use of semi-feral or domesticated grazing livestock to maintain and increase the biodiversity of natural or semi-natural grasslands, heathlands, wood pasture, wetlands and many other habitats.
Conservation grazing is the use of grazing animals to help improve the biodiversity of a site. Due to their hardy nature, rare and native breeds are often used in conservation grazing. [19] In some cases, to re-establish traditional hay meadows, cattle such as the English Longhorn and Highland are used to provide grazing. [20]
Conservation of Private Grazing Lands — Enacted in the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104–127) and most recently amended by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107–171, Sec. 2502), this program provides coordinated technical, educational, and related assistance to preserve and enhance privately owned grazing lands.
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
Bison grazing in Yellowstone. The conservation of bison in North America is an ongoing, diverse effort to bring American bison (Bison bison) back from the brink of extinction. Plains bison, a subspecies (Bison bison bison), are a keystone species in the North American Great Plains.
Vera's hypothesis has important repercussions for nature conservation especially, because it advocates for a reorientation of emphasis away from the protection of old-growth forest (as per the competing high forest theory) and towards the conservation of open and semi-open grasslands and wood pastures, through extensive grazing.
Grazing rights is the right of a user to allow their livestock to feed (graze) in a given area. Grazing rights in action: Leyton Marshes in London, where historic grazing (and other) rights are still in place, although not always willingly acceded by the authorities A large sheep farm in Chile.
Within this package, conservation programs such as the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) focus on providing financial and technical support to working lands, such as ranches. [7] Managed rotational grazing is included as an eligible conservation practice for funding under EQIP. [7]