Sid Goodloe, owner of Carrizo Valley Ranch in Capitan, New Mexico describes forest and rangeland history, current conditions, and rehabilitation and conservation practices of his south central New Mexican ranchland.
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I shared this presentation at the IL Regional Tillage Seminar in Milan IL on 1/27/2011.
Some edits have been made for increased clarity without the commentary.
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Building Resilience to Climate Change and Increase Food Security Through Scaling up Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration. Presentation from Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) 2011. Learning Event number 11, Session 2, Room C. Presented by Abasse , How the Niger Republic is building resilience of farmers to climate change and increasing food security.
This presentation was presented during the 2 Parallel session on Theme 2, Maintaining and/or increasing SOC stocks for climate change mitigation and adaptation and Land Degradation Neutrality, of the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon that took place in Rome 21-23 March 2017. The presentation was made by Ms. Kristine Nichols, from Rodale Institute - USA, in FAO Hq, Rome
I shared this presentation at the IL Regional Tillage Seminar in Milan IL on 1/27/2011.
Some edits have been made for increased clarity without the commentary.
Rehabilitating degraded croplands for improved crop productivity and soil car...ExternalEvents
This presentation was presented during the 3 Parallel session on Theme 3.3, Managing SOC in: Dryland soils, of the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon that took place in Rome 21-23 March 2017. The presentation was made by Mr. Hatirarami Nezomba, from Soil Fertility Consortium for Southern Africa - Zimbabwe, in FAO Hq, Rome
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Invasive Species and the Deteriorating Condition of the Great BasinConrad Communications
We are currently losing the fight to limit and reduce invasive species in the Great Basin. Cheatgrass, pinyon pine, juniper, medusahead and other invasive species now are prevalent in the Great Basin. Federal efforts to limit these species have proven insufficient in part because inadequate policy. The failure to effectively address invasive species has implications and negative economic impacts on wildlife habitat, on rural agriculture-based communities, and on urban communities in the Great Basin and beyond. We need new approaches and greater flexibility to address invasive species and associated issues, including the reduction of large and severe wildland fires, and high yet still rising costs of fire suppression, restoration of degraded lands, and the destruction of livestock forage and key wildlife habitat.
The Endangered GlobalCommonsThe Effects of Climate and T.docxcherry686017
The Endangered Global
Commons
The Effects of Climate
and Topography on Air
Pollution
The Effects of Air
Pollution
Air Pollution Control:
Toward a Sustainable
Strategy
Noise: The Forgotten
Pollutant
Indoor Air Pollution
Spotlight on Sustainable
Development 20-1:
Germany's Sustainable
Approach Pays Huge
Dividends
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
CHAPTER 12
I
n the early 1970s, scientists pored over satellite photographs of the
drought-stricken African Sahel, a band of semiarid land that bor-
ders the southern Sahara. One of them noticed an unusually green
patch of land amid the desert. Curious to find out the reason, Norman
MacLeod, an American agronomist, flew to the site. There, surrounded
by newly formed desert, was a privately owned ranch of 100,000 hectares
(250,000 acres). Its grasses grew rich and thick even though vegeta-
tion in the surrounding fields had long since died, leaving the sandy
soil unprotected. Why?
Grasslands, Forests, and
Wilderness: Sustainable
Management StrategiesThe Tragedy of the
Commons
Rangelands and Range
Management: Protecting
the World’s Grasslands
Forests and Forest
Management
Wilderness and Wilderness
Management
Spotlight on Sustainable
Development 12-1: Saving
the World’s Tropical Rain
Forests
Point/Counterpoint:
Controversy over Old-
Growth Forests in the
Pacific Northwest
12.4
12.3
12.2
12.1
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations,
bids us restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from
wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.
—Theodore Roosevelt
221
CRITICAL THINKING
Exercise
In a speech to a group of business executives,
one opponent of the U.S. Clean Air Act noted
that natural sources of air pollution such as
volcanoes often exceed human sources. Be-
cause of this he argued that air pollution con-
trol legislation was misguided. He went on to
say that he supported efforts in the U.S. Con-
gress to weaken air pollution legislation be-
cause it was not only unnecessary but also
hurt the economy. Regulations, he claimed,
cost jobs and reduced the nation's productiv-
ity. Analyze this premise, using your critical
thinking skills and your knowledge of air
pollution.
222 PART IV. Resource Issues:
Solution
s for a Sustainable Society
CRITICAL THINKING
Exercise
One of the most dramatic changes on the
planet in the last 2 decades has been the
steady march of the world’s largest desert,
Africa’s Sahara. In the 1970s and 1980s, re-
searchers estimated that the desert spread
southward at a rate of 5 kilometers (3 miles)
per year. They attributed this expansion to
drought, overgrazing, and agricultural land
abuse in the semiarid grasslands bordering
the desert. The 5 km/yr projection, however,
was based primarily on measurements in a few
locations, which researchers assumed were
representative of the entire continent.
Using satellite observations of vegeta-
tion, however, scientists have found that the
Sahara has advanced and retreated—larg ...
Not so wild on the wild coast: conservation of pondolandDerek Berliner
Not so wild on the Wild Coast: Landscape changes and threats to biodiversity on the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast and the role of protected areas in communal areas
04/July/ 2012
Berliner, D.D
Eco-logic consulting
E mail:eco-logic@mweb.co.za
The Pondoland centre of endemism is the smallest and perhaps the most vulnerable in South Africa. Its importance has been globally recognized by its inclusion within Conservation Internationals Maputu-Pondoland- Albany hotspot.
The Wild Coast Project, a GEF funded initiative, administered by the ECPBT aims to establish a representative network of co managed protected areas across the Pondoland center and within the Wild Coast. A number of case studies are used to examine the key threats, systemic relationships between these, and the drivers of landscape change on the Wild Coast. In light of this, the question is asked: how effective the proposed community protected areas will be to ensure persistence of biodiversity on the Wild Coast?
The case studies include a number of ecosystems, including mangrove estuaries, scarp forests, and the grasslands /thorn veld/forest mosaic. Case studies are the result of numerous site visits, literature reviews, discussion with locals, and GIS analysis of past areal and satellite imagery.
The case studies reveal the essential paradox of conservation in communal areas, like the Wild Coast. On the one hand, the human footprint and level of transformation appears to be relatively low when compared to the highly transformed landscapes of commercial agriculture; but on the other hand, closer inspection and analysis of landscape and associated environment changes, reveals highly dynamic and vulnerable systems showing the signs of an ‘environmental meltdown’. This threatens not only the livelihoods of many depended on natural resources, but also the irreplaceable biodiversity associated with these areas.
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Community Ecology I
Stability, Resilience
WFC 10 – D. A. Kelt
A biological community is defined by the species that occupy a
particular locality and the interactions among those species.
A Primer of Conservation Biology, 3rd ed. R. B. Primack 2004
Community Ecology is the study of biological communities.
In what ways are communities organized, structured, predictable?
In what ways are they not?
Note the difference between “habitat” and “community.”
The former refers to a physical location,
whereas the latter refers to constituent species.
Many communities may appear very similar.
Coniferous Forest
near Mt. Rainier
central Oregon
King’s Canyon National Park
Sandy Desert
Sahara Desert
Simpson Desert (Australia)
Death Valley, California
Thus, there may be great variation
from point to point in these
communities
One major way in which they differ is
in composition – the particular species
that occur at a site.
Example: Burrowing
mammals
N. Amer. - Gopher
Asia - Zokor
Australia – Marsupial mole
S. Amer. – Tuco tuco
Africa – Mole rat
Ecologically similar species in different
regions with different evolutionary origins.
N. Amer. - Gopher
Asia - Zokor
Australia – Marsupial mole
S. Amer. – Tuco tuco
Africa – Mole rat
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Often true at smaller spatial scales as well . . .
Geomys
Eastern Pocket Gophers
Cratogeomys
Yellow-faced Pocket Gophers
Pappogeomys
Southern Pocket Gophers
Thomomys
Western Pocket Gophers
4 genera of North American
pocket gophers
From a conservation perspective we are interested in how
stable a community is in the face of anthropogenic abuses.
Stability – often portrayed in simple cartoon fashion as follows:
So, given all this variation, how are communities structured,
and how do they respond to disturbance?
Global Stability Local Stability
Stability may be measured by a community’s fluctuation over time.
Communities often remain stable over time.
However, they may be perturbed by some external force.
What happens then?
The American chestnut (Castanea dentata)
made up >40% of trees in mature eastern
deciduous forest.
Chestnut blight – introduced to New York City in ca. 1900
By 1950 only 1 remaining large tree in North America
What impact did this enormous loss have on
the biota of eastern North America?
Perhaps surprisingly, essentially no impact.
Eastern deciduous forests are very diverse – maples, oaks, hickories, catalpa, etc. Loss of American chestnut led to NO major changes in animal or plant communities.
Black bears may have suffered from loss of mast.
Thus, this was a relatively minor perturbation
from the perspective of the community – it
evidently shifted to a different local stable point.
Seven butterfly/moth species were specialists on
American chestnut, and have gone extinct.
Another 49 Lepidopterans simply shifted their hosts.
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Pollution – another
perturbation that can
result in ecological
deteriorat.
Land tenure in pastoralist society: Pastoralists Land RightsLoupa Pius
Pastoralists are among the most politically and economically marginalized communities in the world. Marginalized in the context of limited access to the natural resources on which their livelihoods depend, and very limited access to basic socio-economic services and infrastructure. Limited or uncertain resource tenure and access to, or ownership of land, water and other resources is a long-term fundamental constraint for pastoralism.
These challenges account for the poverty and lack of essential services thus categorized as; climate change, political and economic marginalization, inappropriate development policies, and increasing resource competition.
Pastoral communities increasingly shift away from the areas that are no longer viable, into areas that are less dry with more predictable rainfall patterns. This form of human migration induced by demographic pressure and environmental stressors is often accompanied by conflict between customary and statutory land tenure arrangements and services which in turn fuels tensions among multiple resource users.
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Patrick O'Neill has worked for a decade a crop and soil adviser with diverse cropping and livestock operations. In this presentation he details several considerations farmers and ranchers should take when finishing livestock on grass.
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Mimi Sidwell, owner of JX Ranch in Tucumcari, NM, discuss methods she and her husband Tom have implemented to make their ranch and grass-fed operation a success.
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The carbon cycle is a critical component of Earth's environmental system, governing the movement and transformation of carbon through various reservoirs, including the atmosphere, oceans, soil, and living organisms. This complex cycle involves several key processes such as photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and carbon sequestration, each contributing to the regulation of carbon levels on the planet.
Human activities, particularly fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, have significantly altered the natural carbon cycle, leading to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and driving climate change. Understanding the intricacies of the carbon cycle is essential for assessing the impacts of these changes and developing effective mitigation strategies.
By studying the carbon cycle, scientists can identify carbon sources and sinks, measure carbon fluxes, and predict future trends. This knowledge is crucial for crafting policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions, enhancing carbon storage, and promoting sustainable practices. The carbon cycle's interplay with climate systems, ecosystems, and human activities underscores its importance in maintaining a stable and healthy planet.
In-depth exploration of the carbon cycle reveals the delicate balance required to sustain life and the urgent need to address anthropogenic influences. Through research, education, and policy, we can work towards restoring equilibrium in the carbon cycle and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.
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Promoting Multilateral Cooperation for Sustainable Peatland management
Holistic Management of Grass, Cattle and Wildlife on Carrizo Valley Ranch.
1. A Half Century of Rangeland Management inA Half Century of Rangeland Management in
the Piñon, Juniper, Ponderosa and Grasslandthe Piñon, Juniper, Ponderosa and Grassland
Ecosystems of the SouthwestEcosystems of the Southwest
Sid Goodloe SWGLA Conference February
Forest and Rangeland History, Current Condition, Rehabilitation and Conservation
Practices on Carrizo Valley Ranch in South Central New Mexico
2. Carrizo Valley Ranch
Lincoln County, New Mexico
Established 1956
Altitude - 6,500-7,500 feet
Precipitation - 16-18 inches 60% Rain, 40% Snow
Topography - Gently rolling hills to steep mountainsides
Growing Season – Mid May to Late September
3. Overall Objective __ Land Health Renewal
Specific Goal __ Pre-Settlement or Climax
Condition
Starting Point __ Local History
4. The first settlers in
the Southwest
didn’t realize the
fragility of our
landscape.
They came from a
non-brittle
environment
( high rainfall,
high humidity) to
a
brittle
environment (low
rainfall, low
humidity, high
winds).
5. Causes of Western Forest and
Rangeland Deterioration
Settlements from high precipitation to low precipitation
Excessive livestock numbers
Yearlong grazing
Land claiming procedures
Priorities
Fire Suppression – Euro-forestry Management
Smokey Bear syndrome
Subdivisions
69. Recreation – it’s affect on The West’s
Environment
ORV Explosion on Public Land Across the West
is Out of Control !
70. The number of 4 wheelers and
side by sides has increased
exponentially. If left
unregulated on public land,
efforts to enhance wildlife
habitat and improve land
health will be diminished.
72. • Know your ecosystems and their history
• Manage them holistically
• Strive for properly functioning watersheds
– vegetation management
• Plan your grazing and control it
• Be willing to share your experience and
knowledge of maintaining a successful
and sustainable cattle operation
To be a good land steward you should ---
I would like to share with you some of the land management practices I have used over the last 55 years on Carrizo Valley Ranch.
How did we get in this shape?
History
priorities
Because of fire suppression herbaceous cover is non-existent and very little water reaches the aquifer. All of this results in accelerated erosion.
The hydro ax seems to be the most efficient mastication tool available.
After mastication there is now adequate space between trees for rapid growth and grass establishment.
After a fairly hot fire that removed many old but small Ponderosa, I walked through throwing out grass seed with excellent results.
The Velpar pellet should be deposited on the drip line on the up-hill side of the Juniper. Moisture is required to activate this pellet.
Velpar is a selective herbicide directed to the elimination of invading woody plants. Grasses are not seriously damaged.
Allan Savory, born and raised in South Africa, formulated the “short duration” or “planned” grazing method in Rhodesia. When simplified, it mimics the buffalo migration on the Great Plains here in the U.S.
I was fortunate enough to meet Allan in the 60’s in Rhodesia and realized that the concept of short duration grazing was solid and worth a try.
You never know what the next year will bring, so your ranch management plan should include provisions for drought. Snap judgments of land conditions by inexperienced observers are dangerous because of a lack of historical knowledge.
Cat tracks make a wonderful seed bed. Hopefully rains will result in a good cover of native grasses.
With higher humidity, lower temperature and less chance of wind, we prefer night burning.
We try to burn about every five years in the Ponderosa open forest.
The response after thinning & burning results in amazing herbaceous recovery.