Air Quality Issues Associated with Livestock Production
This chapter reviews the current state of the art on air quality issues associated with animal waste containment. Outdoor waste storage and treatment systems are emphasized. Air quality...
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A study of the professional literature indicates that the meaning of the term BMP, literally signifying a Best Management Practice, has diverged, depending on the professional field. Use...
Spreading Measurements and Longitudinal Cracking: Sheep Creek— Goldstream Road, Fairbanks, Alaska
Selective Withdrawal at Hungry Horse Dam, Montana
Risk Assessment of Rockfall Hazard at Horse Mesa Dam: A Case History
Monitoring the Effects of Sewage Sludge on a Pasture Ecosystem Grazed by Sheep in South-eastern Australia - Prelininary Results
Holy Cow! It's Going, Going, Gone!
This chapter serves as an introduction to the book and its topics....
Duck Soup: Resolving Resource Conflicts at Rush Ranch
Land use conflicts are intensifying as population grows and habitat shrinks. Differences between duck hunters, cattle ranchers, bird watchers and a half dozen state and local agencies...
Economic Benefit of Irrigation on Beef Ranches
Drought can result in forage shortages leading to possible liquidation of the breeding herd. Liquidation is often at depressed prices, and replacement may be at elevated prices. In this...
Seismic Analysis of Horse Creek Dam, Hudson, Colorado
On April 8, 1981, six days after a Richter magnitude 4. 0 earthquake, inspectors from the Colorado State Engineer's Office discovered a small crack in outboard side of Horse...
Soil Movement and Surface Roughness on Wyoming Rangelands
Soil movement and surface roughness parameters were evaluated as a function of response to livestock grazing and semiarid shrub control treatments. Repeated elevation measurements of erosion...
Erosion, Productivity and Rangeland Watershed Planning
The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for the management of over 160 million acres of rangeland in the western United States. The principal uses of these rangelands are the grazing...
Effects of Livestock Grazing on Runoff and Erosion
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