RangelandsPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2021.03.001
Gwendŵr R. Meredith, Mark W. Brunson
{"title":"Effects of Wildfire on Collaborative Management of Rangelands: A Case Study of the 2015 Soda Fire","authors":"Gwendŵr R. Meredith, Mark W. Brunson","doi":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p></p><ul><li><span>•</span><span><p>Multi-jurisdictional rangeland “mega-fires” are becoming more common.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Using interview data, we examined cross-boundary collaboration after the Soda Fire that burned approximately 113,312 ha (280,000 acres) of southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>We found relationships established in other management contexts were activated by individuals within agencies to share funding and resources to rehabilitate the landscape after the Soda Fire.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>The fire's spatial proximity to Boise, Idaho, and temporal proximity to important federal policy decisions were primary collaboration drivers.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Barriers to collaborative efforts still exist; however, interviewees highlighted the importance of individual agency (bottom-up) changes in lessening top-down constraints.</p></span></li></ul></div>","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"44 5","pages":"Pages 306-315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.rala.2021.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78491458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RangelandsPub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2021.08.008
Michael G. Sorice , Kiandra Rajala , David Toledo
{"title":"Private landowners and the facilitation of an invasive species","authors":"Michael G. Sorice , Kiandra Rajala , David Toledo","doi":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.08.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p></p><ul><li><span>•</span><span><p>We explored private landowner perceptions about the invasive Kentucky bluegrass in the US northern Great Plains.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Landowner responses to a mail survey indicated little to no preventative action.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>We also employed a scenario approach to assess landowner perceptions based on changes to ecosystem services.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Scenario results indicated that the early stage of invasion was considered slightly acceptable. At the late stage, when negative impacts are most severe for landowner livelihoods, bluegrass was rated as slightly unacceptable.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Cascading impacts will become more evident and incentivizing early action to prevent further invasion is key to maintaining these working landscapes.</p></span></li></ul></div>","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"44 5","pages":"Pages 345-352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190052821000900/pdfft?md5=1c82ed8d47842929222c12c896def0db&pid=1-s2.0-S0190052821000900-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75936390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating human dimensions within the LTAR Network to achieve agroecological system transformation","authors":"Gwendŵr Meredith , Alycia Bean , Amanda Bentley Brymer , Claire Friedrichsen , Zach Hurst","doi":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p></p><ul><li><span>•</span><span><p>Agroecosystem research often focuses on biophysical processes and productivity without incorporating human dimensions research and/or stakeholder engagement.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Connecting individual and community well-being to agro-innovation research is required for agro-ecological transformation to sustainable intensification.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network sites have historically had varied degrees of human dimensions research within their research plan; however, LTAR's human dimensions capacity has grown.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>To capitalize on this capacity, we propose a four-step framework for the LTAR Network to evolve a cohesive human dimensions strategy that brings together the social and ecological.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Continued institutional support is required to maintain and further pursue research that will support stakeholder co-developed science that facilitates agroecosystem transformations benefiting society.</p></span></li></ul></div>","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"44 5","pages":"Pages 368-376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.rala.2021.05.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83843451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future of social science integration in rangelands research","authors":"Mark Brunson , Lynn Huntsinger , Gwendŵr Meredith , Nathan Sayre","doi":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.08.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rala.2021.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p></p><ul><li><span>•</span><span><p>Researchers have studied human dimensions of rangelands since the earliest days of US rangeland science, usually focusing only on white, male, English-speaking ranch owners.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>To address questions of rural prosperity and collaborative management, social scientists and the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network must turn their attention to the perspectives, practices, and experiences of indigenous, non-Anglo, female, and “new rural” rangeland stakeholders as well.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Social science researchers can learn from scholars in related fields whose work is less often consulted in rangeland science, including those working internationally with pastoral communities and in the United States with rural youth.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Understanding these communities is likely to require broadening our conceptions of what constitutes “knowledge,” with a greater focus on seeking just outcomes for the full range of people who depend upon rangelands and rangeland communities for their lives and livelihoods.</p></span></li></ul></div>","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"44 5","pages":"Pages 377-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190052821000894/pdfft?md5=6aae9bc445718d3c4c1a556d4a7f41ab&pid=1-s2.0-S0190052821000894-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77584763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RangelandsPub Date : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1016/0190-0528-44.4.291
{"title":"Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/0190-0528-44.4.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0190-0528-44.4.291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"16 1","pages":"291 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86896207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RangelandsPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2022.04.001
Travis A. Brammer , Drew E. Bennett
{"title":"Arriving at a natural solution: Bundling credits to access rangeland carbon markets","authors":"Travis A. Brammer , Drew E. Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.rala.2022.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rala.2022.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p></p><ul><li><span>•</span><span><p>Natural solutions, such as “avoided conversion of grasslands,” offer agricultural land managers a way to mitigate climate change while monetizing climate benefits.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Managers who avoid converting grasslands to other uses, such as row crops, can quantify the amount of stored carbon and sell credits, but high costs of developing carbon credit projects price many landowners out of the carbon market.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Aggregation can create economies of scale, which lower barriers of entry and allow more landowners to participate in the market.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>Given the current low prices in the carbon market, aggregation is not a panacea and aggregated projects are not financially viable for many landowners.</p></span></li><li><span>•</span><span><p>As the demand for carbon credits continues to grow, land managers can position themselves to take advantage of carbon market opportunities should prices increase, and projects become financially viable.</p></span></li></ul></div>","PeriodicalId":101057,"journal":{"name":"Rangelands","volume":"44 4","pages":"Pages 281-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019005282200044X/pdfft?md5=a29dcdd284e1421443591de3719ea434&pid=1-s2.0-S019005282200044X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90975408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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RangelandsPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.rala.2022.07.001