|Title||Brush management as a rangeland conservation strategy: a critical evaluation|
|Publication Type||Book Chapter|
|Year of Publication||2011|
|Authors||Archer SR, Davies K.W, Fulbright T.E, McDaniel K.C, Wilcox B.P., Predick K.I|
|Book Title||Conservation benefits of rangeland practices: assessment, recommendations, and knowledge gaps|
|Keywords||book, brush management, chapter, conservation, rangeland management, report|
Rangelands support the majority of the world’s livestock production (Safriel and Adeel 2005) and play an important role in human health and global carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles (Campbell and Stafford Smith 2000). Their extensive airsheds and watersheds provide habitat for game and nongame wildlife and myriad ecosystem goods and services important to rapidly growing settlements and cities that may be geographically distant. Rangelands thus have considerable, multidimensional conservation value. Stewardship of vegetation composition, cover, and production is the foundation of sustainable rangeland management, a key component of which is maintaining vegetation within a desirable mix of herbaceous and woody plants (WPs).