“Green and Brown” Grazing Strategy
“Green and Brown” Grazing Strategy
“Green and Brown” Grazing Strategy
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How Can this Guideline Benefit You?<br />
This guideline was designed to provide l<strong>and</strong><br />
managers <strong>and</strong> ranchers with direct, helpful<br />
information on how to best use livestock for<br />
managing invasive annual grasses, such as<br />
cheatgrass, medusahead <strong>and</strong> ventenata. In<br />
many cases, livestock may be the best tool to<br />
manage annual grasses <strong>and</strong> the goal of this<br />
guide is to provide the ecological basis for using<br />
livestock to manage invasive grasses <strong>and</strong><br />
examples of how to use livestock to manage<br />
rangel<strong>and</strong>s.<br />
Whether you are faced with the threat of<br />
invasion by annual grasses, have areas where<br />
annual grasses have invaded but desired<br />
species are still present, or maybe you are<br />
challenged with areas where annual grass<br />
monocultures require the site be revegetated or<br />
restored, grazing should be a part of your<br />
management program. This guide is designed<br />
with l<strong>and</strong> managers in mind.<br />
What can be the direct benefits of using this<br />
guideline?<br />
1) Underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the value of grazing as a<br />
management tool,<br />
2) Find out how grazing fits into the<br />
ecologically-based invasive plant<br />
management (EBIPM) system, <strong>and</strong><br />
3) Knowledge of the science behind the<br />
<strong>“Green</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Brown”</strong> grazing strategy.<br />
The <strong>“Green</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Brown”</strong> strategy <strong>and</strong> EBIPM both take aim at utilizing grazing to stress the<br />
undesired plants, such as cheatgrass, medusahead <strong>and</strong> ventenata (from left to right above) which<br />
can help give perennials a competitive edge in growth, seed development, <strong>and</strong> performance.<br />
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