Financial barriers and opportunities for conservation adoption on U.S. rangelands: A region-wide, ranch-level economic assessment of NRCS-sponsored Greater Sage-grouse habitat conservation programs

Maher, Anna T.; Quintana-Ashwell, Nicolas E.; Tanaka, John; Ritten, John P.; Maczko, Kristie A.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116420

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“…13,14 These practices may provide associated ecological and ranch-level economic benefits over time. 15,16 Prescribed grazing strategies involve altering the intensity, frequency, timing, and duration of grazing to achieve one or more of a defined set of specific goals. 14 For example, the objective under the NRCS prescribed grazing practice standard most directly related to soil health is “Reduce soil erosion and maintain or improve soil health.” 14 Brush management strategies aim to achieve desired plant communities based on specific objectives.…”

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The search for relationships between soil health and ranch-level economic outcomes – A case study on California rangelands

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“…A potential lack of return on the money and time invested may be a deterrent to adoption of conservation practices.Potential barriers to realizing a return on investment in conservation practices on rangelands include tight profit margins, high upfront costs, and economic benefits that occur only in the future. 15,16,18…”

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The hotter the better: high mean annual temperature, not seed predation, hastens the decline of invasive Bromus tectorum

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Faist,

Callaway

et al. 2024

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Bromus tectorum invasion degrades biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the Great Basin Desert. To explain, predict, and manage B. tectorum invasion, we must understand the biotic and abiotic factors that influence its establishment and persistence. We explored interactions between two key constraints for invaders in general and B. tectorum in particular: post-dispersal seed predation and climate, including mean annual temperature, rainfall, snowfall, and aridity. At six study sites in undisturbed, climax Artemisia tridentata communities across northern Nevada and Utah, we performed one-time additions of 100 B. tectorum seeds to microsites outfitted with either a dummy (“open”) cage that exposed seeds to rodent foraging, or a functional (“closed”) cage that protected them from rodent foraging. Living Bromus tectorum plants within experimental cages were censused one and 5 years after seed additions. At both 1- and 5-years censuses, and regardless of climate, B. tectorum densities were similar in open and closed microsites, suggesting that rodent foraging did not affect B. tectorum establishment or persistence. Compared to 1-year censuses, B. tectorum counts declined by 47% across all sites after 5 years, but declines were sharpest at sites with the highest mean annual temperatures. Taken together, our findings suggest that undisturbed, climax A. tridentata communities can resist B. tectorum expansion, and this resistance increases with mean annual temperature, not rodent foraging. We suggest that controlling nascent populations of B. tectorum may be particularly urgent in intact climax A. tridentata communities in relatively cool climates, where community-level resistance against B. tectorum persistence is lowest.

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Cooperative management reduces the trade-offs of multi-functions of the grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Tan,

Xu,

Dong

et al. 2024

Land Use Policy

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Financial barriers and opportunities for conservation adoption on U.S. rangelands: A region-wide, ranch-level economic assessment of NRCS-sponsored Greater Sage-grouse habitat conservation programs

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

The search for relationships between soil health and ranch-level economic outcomes – A case study on California rangelands

The search for relationships between soil health and ranch-level economic outcomes – A case study on California rangelands

The hotter the better: high mean annual temperature, not seed predation, hastens the decline of invasive Bromus tectorum

Cooperative management reduces the trade-offs of multi-functions of the grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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