Heavy Seasonal Grazing on Central Arizona Piñon–Juniper Rangeland: Risky Business?

Sustainable Rangeland Grazing in Norse Faroe

The introduction of domestic livestock particularly sheep and rangeland grazing by Norse settlers to Faroe during the 9th century has generally been described as a major pressure on a sensitive landscape, leading to rapid and widespread vegetation change and contributing to land degradation. This view has, however, been developed without consideration of Norse grazing management practices which...

Grazing in Relation to Runoff and Erosion on Some Chaparral Watersheds of Central Arizona

Chaparral lands of central Arizona are important for water production. They are also used as grazing lands for livestock and as habitat for wildlife. An understanding of the relation of grazing to runoff and erosion is thus essential to the development of management systems for sustained high yields. This paper reports the effects of grazing on runoff and erosion as determined on four experimen...

Idaho Private Rangeland Grazing—Lease Arrangements

Risky business.

In prior studies by high-level commissions, emphasis was given to improving the scientific basis and institutional procedures for risk assessment and risk regulation within existing statutory frameworks. Recommendations have led to slow but steady progress. This study is considerably different. It emphasizes a public health approach for efficient use of resources in a new flexible framework for...

Risky business.

With the establishment of the National Center for Advanced Translational Sciences (NCATS) in December of 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US government made a commitment to directly invest in translational research. With NCATS, the NIH will invest tax payer dollars in the riskiest ‘precompetitive’ stages of drug discovery. NCATS has also articulated a commitment to bring to...