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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.
Forest Landscape Integrity Index 2019 map of the Earth. 0 = Most modification; 10= Least.. The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
Gap assessments can be done using the geographic information system: land maps that delineate topography, biological and geological features (forest cover, plains, rivers, etc.), boundaries, land ownership and use are overlaid with the distribution of wildlife species. How much of the species' distribution fall within or without the ...
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.
[55] [56] The grazing fee for 2014 was set at $1.35 per AUM, the same level as for 2013. [55] Over time there has been a gradual decrease in the amount of grazing that takes place on BLM-managed land. [55] Grazing on public lands has declined from 18.2 million AUMs in 1954 to 7.9 million AUMs in 2013. [55] Mining.
The Kyoto Protocol article 3.3 thus requires mandatory LULUCF accounting for afforestation (no forest for last 50 years), reforestation (no forest on 31 December 1989) and deforestation, as well as (in the first commitment period) under article 3.4 voluntary accounting for cropland management, grazing land management, revegetation and forest ...
The trust lands (two sections, or about 1,280 acres (5.2 km 2) per township) are usually managed extractively (grazing or mining), to provide revenue for public schools. All states have some lands under state management, such as state parks , state wildlife management areas, and state forests .
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 ...