Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.05.001
Abmael S. Cardoso , Maria L. Silveira , Marta M. Kohmann , Joao M.B. Vendramini , João M.D. Sanchez , Namrata Ghimire , Rosvel Bracho
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We investigated the effects of prescribed fire and mechanical control on plant productivity and diversity over a 7-year field study in Florida’s subtropical rangelands.
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Prescribed fire was effective at increasing above-ground biomass of grasses and forbs, while also suppressing saw-palmetto.
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Fire in combination with mechanical control resulted in the greatest reduction in saw-palmetto biomass and ground cover. However, it also increased undesirable grasses, which warrants further research at the species level.
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Increasing fire frequency and mechanical control are effective strategies to reduce the proportion of shrubs while also increasing desirable plant species in Florida’s subtropical rangelands.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.07.001
Jacob S. Courkamp , James R. Sebastian , Joseph K. Swanson
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Invasive annual grasses like cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) are widespread and abundant in western North America, where they compete with native plants that are important components of wildlife habitat.
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Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are an important wildlife species that typically rely on woody shrubs for forage during winter months.
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Competition from cheatgrass may limit shrub growth and reduce winter forage availability for mule deer, with potential negative effects on mule deer survival and population growth. Thus, effective cheatgrass management may reduce competition and increase winter forage availability for mule deer.
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Herbicide application to control cheatgrass increased shrub leader growth, and data collected with camera traps suggest mule deer may preferentially use herbicide-treated areas during winter.
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A wide variety of complex and interacting factors influence mule deer habitat use. Our project represents an important first step, but additional research is necessary to more fully investigate the benefits of effective cheatgrass management for mule deer and other important wildlife species.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.05.002
Zubair Barkat, Stacia Ryder, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad
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As rangeland social scientists increasingly stress the importance of the inclusion of historically suppressed voices, the question arises: how do we better incorporate and value situated knowledge from the experiences of marginalized ranchers? This research explores the application of feminist standpoint theory in rangeland social science to enhance theory and practice.
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Standpoint theory argues that knowledge is socially situated and explains how existing on the margins of social structures informs a critical perspective. Those who benefit from dominant systems often overlook how power structures operate.
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We draw on two cases to show how individuals who experience oppression can identify problematic assumptions and provide unique insights into how social identities shape power dynamics in rangelands.
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Findings demonstrate that those from marginalized backgrounds who are critically engaged with systems of oppression offer epistemic advantages by providing alternative viewpoints that challenge dominant paradigms in rangeland research. Socially situated knowledge can open new ways of approaching social science research by considering the often underrepresented perspectives of marginalized ranchers.
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It behooves us to be more attentive to the voices and experiences of non-white and non-male ranchers and to embrace their perspectives at every stage of our research design. By doing so, we can potentially achieve a more rigorous form of objectivity.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.07.002
Amber Dalke , Jason W. Karl , Jeremy Kenyon , Jeanne Pfander , Sheila Merrigan , Sean Di Stefano , Matthew King , Eric Winford , Karen Launchbaugh
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RangeDocs (https://docs.rangelandsgateway.org) allows Extension professionals, agency staff, producers, and other land managers to search rangeland terms and pinpoint applicable information from key national and regional rangeland resources.
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An updated rangeland-specific glossary, synthesized from multiple sources, provides a set of common terms for searching in key rangeland management technical documents.
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Technical resources in RangeDocs have been annotated by rangeland experts to provide efficient search results that point to highly relevant information.
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The RangeDocs web application takes users to specific pages within key rangeland documents related to their search topics.
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RangeDocs collections are groupings of individual pages from various documents focused on specific rangeland issues. All collections can be shared and stored on a smartphone for offline use.
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Dependable, targeted information found in one place will save land managers valuable time in both the office and the field.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.01.003
Timothy Pape , Gwendŵr Meredith , David Sandahl , Md Faizul Kabir , Simanti Banerjee , Craig Allen , Elliott Dennis , Mitchell Stephenson
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Regenerative agriculture has been offered as an ecologically thoughtful means of food production, yet questions remain regarding how individuals in rural communities transition toward regenerative practices.
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We studied dynamics related to the transition from traditional ranching to regenerative ranching by employing actor-network analysis on 24 semistructured interviews from ranchers in the Northern Great Plains region of the United States, who self-identify as implementing regenerative agricultural practices.
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We found government and nongovernmental organization financial and technical programs are vital for effectuating regenerative practices on ranching operations, even though many programs are not directly oriented toward regenerative agriculture.
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Understanding the processes and relationships facilitating regenerative ranching is important for policymakers and stakeholders engaged in managing rangelands resiliently and equitably.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.02.002
Brooke Jacobs , Peter Kareiva , Christopher Schachtschneider
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Rangelands preserve biodiversity by connecting fragmented landscapes. As gray wolf (Canis lupus) populations expand throughout the United States, they increasingly move through rangelands, leading to conflicts with livestock.
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We evaluated the efficacy of both lethal and nonlethal wolf-livestock conflict mitigation methods and found nonlethal methods achieved more significant risk reduction for cattle. We focused on wolf-cattle conflict mitigation, as US Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services (USDA WS) reports most wolf-livestock conflicts in the United States involve cattle.
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We examined the USDA WS Nonlethal Initiative, which indicated a growing shift toward nonlethal wolf management. We found nonlethal methods, such as range riding, harassment, deterrents, and electric fencing showed promise, but their use varied geographically.
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Nonlethal livestock protection methods may effectively reduce conflicts while addressing the needs of ranchers, conservationists, and animal rights advocates. They deserve more significant investment and research, beginning with the USDA WS.
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We developed a toolkit for ranchers and rangeland managers interested in nonlethal livestock protection, which offers information and resources for implementing conflict mitigation techniques.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.03.001
Jim Sprinkle , Cole Kempton , Dan Lauritzen , Justin Hatch , Sawyer Fonnesbeck , April Hulet , Robbert Mickelsen , Hans Bastian , Jared Simpson , Jameson Brennan
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Cattle increased grazing on south-facing slopes during a better forage-quality year and grazed more on north-facing slopes during a poor-quality forage year.
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During a poor-quality forage year, cattle increased daily grazing times except when winter storms prevailed.
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Targeted grazing in a year with substantial rainfall before the end of the grazing season resulted in weight gain for cattle with no added protein supplements.
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Increased grazing time in a year with poor forage quality resulted in increased weight loss, suggesting that the energy contained in forage did not compensate for the extra energy required to acquire it.
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Satellite Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) imagery can assist in predicting when protein supplements should be used in a targeted grazing project.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2025.02.001
Tonya R. Haigh , Madeline Goebel , Cody Knutson
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Our canvass of the literature finds a lack of clarity on what researchers and ranchers mean by the concept of ``planning for drought.''
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We found gaps in the data on the proportion of ranchers who either engage in the process of planning for drought and/or have a formal plan for drought.
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We present suggestions for specifying the dimensions of drought planning and plans in research design, measurement, and publishing, which will improve the state of knowledge regarding the use and benefits of ranch drought planning.
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With this knowledge, the range management community will have better decision and planning support for ranchers to manage future drought and climate extremes.
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