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{"title":"Cows or Condos: Rancher and Land-Use Outcomes Following Compensated Federal Grazing Permit Waivers","authors":"Tessa M. Wittman,&nbsp;Drew E. Bennett","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Considering the nexus between public grazing lands and privately owned rangelands in the American West, some scholars argue that reduced access to public grazing allotments can result in subdivision or land conversion of private lands affiliated with livestock production—an argument presented as a choice between “cows or condos.” This argument has been applied to compensated permit waivers, a tool meant to reduce wildlife-livestock and other conflicts on public lands. We tested this “cows or condos” hypothesis by conducting semistructured interviews and a survey of permittees who have participated in a permit waiver, and through a property and records analysis of privately owned properties affiliated with 49 permittees who have accepted compensation to waive a federal grazing permit in the West since 1999. While we found no evidence of subdivision on private properties, common themes and mixed experiences arose from the producers we communicated with. Nearly every producer was experiencing untenable conflict on their grazing lease, most producers would have preferred to remain on their allotment if conflicts were reduced but were grateful they received compensation for waiving their permit, and many producers expressed concerns about the impacts of ongoing fragmentation of rangelands across the American West. The permit waiver presented difficulties for some producers, but for others the permit waiver was a catalyst for expanding their operation. Conflict with wildlife, agency restrictions, and exorbitant land values were cited by most producers as factors compromising their operation. We found no evidence to support the claim that compensated permit waivers are driving subdivision in the West; rather, many ranchers indicated the rapid development and fragmentation of Western landscapes is a major factor reducing the viability of livestock production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001380/pdfft?md5=3a4971392c2fbebf3aaf7449643a2c80&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742423001380-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139587290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing the Predictive Capacity of Allometric Models in Estimating Grass Biomass in a Desert Grassland","authors":"Adam T. Naito ,&nbsp;Steven R. Archer ,&nbsp;Philip Heilman","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Allometric models provide a rapid, nondestructive means for estimating aboveground biomass (AGB) of perennial grass species. In the absence of site-specific models, allometric relationships developed at other sites at other times are often used. This implicitly assumes that size-biomass relationships are highly robust. In this study, we assess the comparability of allometric relationships developed at two points in time (2005 and 2015) on different soils on a Sonoran Desert savanna in southern Arizona. We used peak growing season field measurements to develop single-species and multispecies regression models using basal diameter and height to predict the current year's AGB for seven perennial grass species. Basal diameter exhibited the strongest relationship with AGB among single-species (adjusted <em>R</em>² = 0.54 to 0.87) and multispecies models (adjusted <em>R</em>² = 0.73). Inclusion of height did little to improve biomass predictions. Our models generally underestimated observed 2015 AGB on the loamy site, whereas models developed in 2005 on a sandier site overestimated the 2015 AGB. Results suggest site-specific allometric models should be used when possible. However, in lieu of such models, relationships developed at other sites or at other times may be appropriate depending on the level of precision needed to address a specific research question.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742424000034/pdfft?md5=038aae1a63e4832c2673470d47afeb40&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742424000034-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139587733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"15-Yr Biomass Production in Semiarid Nebraska Sandhills Grasslands: Part 1—Plant Functional Group Analysis","authors":"Biquan Zhao ,&nbsp;Mitchell B. Stephenson ,&nbsp;Tala Awada ,&nbsp;Jerry D. Volesky ,&nbsp;Brian Wardlow ,&nbsp;Yuzhen Zhou ,&nbsp;Yeyin Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Semiarid grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills provide critical ecosystem services and are an important forage resource for the local cattle industry. Over the past decades, warming and climate-related extremes have affected grassland production worldwide, which promotes the initiation of numerous grassland monitoring projects. Despite this, production trends for plant functional groups in the Sandhills regions in recent years have remained unknown. In this study, we analyzed plant biomass production of the Sandhills grasslands with a dataset collected over 15 yr from 2007 to 2021. Ungrazed total biomass and biomass of individual plant functional groups were assessed in grazing exclosures twice a year, in mid-June (for early season) and mid-August (for late season). This first paper reports our findings on total biomass and compositional changes of the three major plant functional groups, as well as trends in precipitation and temperature during the study period. A significant increasing trend (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.05) was observed in temperature over time during the early season (April to mid-June), with a weak monotonic increasing trend (<em>P</em> = 0.07) during the full season (April to mid-August), whereas no significant pattern was reported for precipitation during the study, although it displayed complex within- and across-season patterns. The proportion of C₃-grass biomass in total biomass increased (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.05), while the proportion of C₄-grass biomass decreased (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.01). We did not observe any significant trends for forbs; however, the drought of 2012 resulted in up to a fivefold increase in the proportion of forb biomass the following year. These findings enhance our understanding of current patterns in grassland production and contribute to regional evidence on the response of plant functional groups to variability and extremes in intra-annual weather variables, which can improve our capability to perform adaptive grazing management in a similar semiarid grassland ecosystem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001276/pdfft?md5=b82eaa6bfb9b156b696bd77f55324618&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742423001276-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139587200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Snapshot of Enteric Methane Emissions from Stocker Cattle Grazing Extensive Semiarid Rangelands","authors":"Edward J. Raynor ,&nbsp;Ashley Schilling-Hazlett ,&nbsp;Sara E. Place ,&nbsp;Juan Vargas Martinez ,&nbsp;Logan R. Thompson ,&nbsp;Melissa K. Johnston ,&nbsp;Tamarah R. Jorns ,&nbsp;Matthew R. Beck ,&nbsp;Larry A. Kuehn ,&nbsp;Justin D. Derner ,&nbsp;Kimberly R. Stackhouse-Lawson","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Enteric methane (CH₄) emissions from cattle grazing extensive semiarid rangelands are largely unknown and represent a considerable knowledge gap for the beef cattle industry. Knowledge of baseline enteric CH₄ emissions is beneficial for understanding the range of variability in individual animal emission production (g CH₄ head [hd]⁻¹ d⁻¹) and emission intensity (g CH₄ kg⁻¹ average daily gain [ADG]⁻¹). Here, we used field-based technology to determine enteric CH₄ emissions from yearling steers grazing the North American shortgrass steppe in northeastern Colorado in midsummer 2022. Twenty-six animals were acclimated for 30 d (1−30 June) to the sampling equipment in the field before the measurement of emissions (1−31 July). Twelve (46%) yearling steers fully acclimated, with mean CH₄ emissions ranging from 113.3 to 261.7 g hd⁻¹ d⁻¹ across the sampling period. Daily CH₄ production values were 20% higher for steers (<em>n</em> = 9) from a local ranch compared with steers (<em>n</em> = 3) that originated from a mixed-grass prairie in south-central Nebraska (202.63 vs. 169.03 g CH₄ hd⁻¹ d⁻¹). ADG of local steers was three times greater than their counterparts (0.54 vs. 0.18 kg hd⁻¹ d⁻¹), resulting in lower emission intensity (g CH₄/ADG; emission intensity) from local steers compared with the naïve steers (237.6 vs. 418.5 emission intensity). In addition, we compared measured CH₄ emissions with predicted emissions calculated using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tier 2 methodology; measured emissions were 31% greater than predicted for the local steers and 18% greater than steers from nonlocal steers. Results indicate that further research addressing grazing animal enteric CH4 emissions in extensive rangelands is needed. Further, efforts should be context specific for comparative efforts across rangeland ecosystems and animal origin to inform more accurate assessments of sustainability of grazing beef cattle related to greenhouse gas mitigation strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742424000010/pdfft?md5=81bd9bd57003b8c044b58197b731e8dc&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742424000010-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139587201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Survey of Attitudes of Human Local Communities of Conservation Areas of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province Toward Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor)","authors":"Azamsadat Moradi ,&nbsp;Abbas Ahmadi ,&nbsp;Hamid Toranjzar ,&nbsp;Bahman Shams-Esfandabad","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.11.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2023.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A human-leopard conflict (HLC) is said to be any type of interaction that results in a mutually harmful effect on wildlife and humans. In recent decades, the scope and intensity of the HLC have increased due to the growth of the human population, changes in land use patterns, inefficient nature protection measures, and manipulation of nature. The study of habitats is considered vital to know their current situation and to think of solutions to solve emerging HLCs. Also, investigating the attitude of human local communities toward carnivores in the habitat where these HLCs is necessary for the management and protection of these species. Therefore, identifying the habitat needs of this valuable species is one of the essential needs of managers. Determining the distribution status of wildlife species<span> and the status of their occupied habitats is important in managing wildlife and habitats. Social factors such as the attitude of human local communities are considered one of the most important factors affecting the HLC. To reach an effective management decision to reduce HLC, we investigated the factors affecting the attitude of human local communities toward this species in the conservation areas of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province. In this research, to investigate the attitude of human local communities, we used a questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions. According to the nature of the work, we selected 256 questionnaires related to the people who had the closest population center to the interviewed site. We interviewed the people who had the most knowledge and information about the local wildlife. The obtained results showed that the most damage to the property of human local communities is the attack on sheep and then domestic goats. The main reason can probably be due to the lack of main prey, as well as the entry of livestock into the range of the leopard's habitat in the slopes of protected areas or free areas. The results showed that knowledge of local communities about the leopard was effective in the positive attitude and interest in its presence, and the fear of the leopard did not cause a negative attitude and lack of interest in it. However, due to the increase of HLCs in recent years in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces, economic losses may increase the retaliatory measures by the human local communities and endanger the survival of this species.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139549783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers’ Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing","authors":"Paige Stanley ,&nbsp;Nathan Sayre ,&nbsp;Lynn Huntsinger","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.11.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2023.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Unprecedented climatic and economic uncertainty, in particular severe drought, calls for management that can preclude some of the costs of reactionary measures for California ranchers. Increasing adaptive capacity has been widely recommended to address such uncertainty. Within this context, holistic management (HM), a decision-making framework marketed for ranchers, is of interest because it emphasizes systems-based thinking, maximizing flexibility and adaptability, ecological monitoring, soil health, and goal setting. Many HM ranchers use adaptive multipaddock (AMP) grazing management, characterized by the combination of moderate to high animal stock densities, fast rotations, pasture rest, iterative monitoring, and adaptive management. We interviewed a small group of AMP-HM ranchers in northern California to 1) examine how their on-the-ground implementation of AMP grazing relates to mental models for rangeland grazing as shaped by HM, including embedded decision-making processes, motivations, barriers, and catalysts; and 2) understand how AMP-HM ranchers believe the strategy helps them respond to increasing challenges. Our findings suggest that first, AMP-HM shifted ranchers’ mental models through its emphasis on monitoring combined with increased interaction with land and animals, changing the ways interviewees saw and understood their management. Second, through its decision-making framework and trainings, AMP-HM increased ranchers’ agency to operationalize new mental models. Together, these two facets culminated in a common suite of strategies that interviewees viewed as key to ranching profitably and sustainably. These include building flexibility into herd sizes and structures to increase temporal and spatial mobility, diversifying ranch enterprises to increase financial flexibility, building soil health, and reducing input costs—all of which have been recommended in rangeland management practices for decades. These findings suggest that AMP-HM, as an integrated package of rangeland management and decision-making practices, accompanied by education and training, may hold promise in helping ranchers strengthen their adaptive capacity and cope with uncertainty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001264/pdfft?md5=45cc39895bb460cabd50c507c25da592&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742423001264-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139503427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resource Selection Function-Adjusted Carrying Capacity Informs Bison Conservation Management in the Imperial Mixed Grassland Ecosystem","authors":"Thuy Doan ,&nbsp;Stefano Liccioli ,&nbsp;Maggi Sliwinski ,&nbsp;Claude Samson ,&nbsp;Bill Biligetu ,&nbsp;Michelle Sawatzky ,&nbsp;Xulin Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Canada, plains bison <em>(Bison bison bison)</em> was assessed by The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada as threatened. While bison are no longer at risk of demographic extinction, conservation programs remain challenged by the rarity of large populations and most bison are found in small, isolated, and confined herds. In this context, proper assessment of ecological carrying capacity is critical to inform habitat management and conservation efforts for species recovery. Although estimated food-limited carrying capacity is influenced by forage availability, forage requirements, and offtake proportion, it should also consider habitat selection by animals, especially inside confined settings to help avoid overgrazing. To support bison management in Grasslands National Park Canada, we integrated remote sensing, geographic information systems, and resource selection functions (RSFs) to examine variables that were potentially associated with bison habitat selection and return a comprehensive estimate of bison carrying capacity. Relevant variables were then integrated with estimates of forage availability using remote sensing and extrapolated to the bison containment scale. Factors of relevance to the RSFs include vegetation landscape units, slope, distance to water, fence, and road. In particular, bison selected for upland and sloped grasslands, which were characterized by the highest forage availability (1 064.5 kg ha⁻¹ and 1 238.5 kg ha⁻¹), while avoiding water in both growing and dormant seasons. The top-performing RSFs models in growing and dormant seasons were assessed using k-fold cross validation and achieved good predictive capacity (Spearman rank correlation [r_s] ≥ 0.83, <em>P</em> &lt; 0.01). Application of traditional clipping biomass samples and remote sensing derived variables is helpful in estimating annual forage quantity for bison (<em>R</em>² = 0.75, <em>P</em> &lt; 0.05). When accounting for bison resource selection, our model resulted in a carrying capacity estimate of about 0.0424 bison ha⁻¹ or 764−770 bison (each requiring 12.2 kg forage/d), compared with 0.0587 bison ha⁻¹ or 1 062 animals estimated when considering only the availability of forage. Such potential to increase carrying capacity to more than 1 000 individuals stresses the importance of testing management tools to shape bison grazing and increase forage utilization across a greater proportion of the 18 000-ha containment area. By improving our understanding of the interaction of this species with the mixed-grass prairie ecosystem, the integration of RSFs with estimates of carrying capacity can help inform conservation management of bison and multispecies at-risk habitat.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001288/pdfft?md5=17f2a716a068fce340c2425113808349&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742423001288-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139473273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Grazer in a Browser's Habitat: Resource Selection of Foraging Cattle in Productive Boreal Forest","authors":"Mélanie Spedener ,&nbsp;Morten Tofastrud ,&nbsp;Gunnar Austrheim ,&nbsp;Barbara Zimmermann","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2023.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Norway, cattle <em>(Bos taurus)</em> are released to large areas of boreal forest for summer grazing. To determine to what degree this practice challenges timber production and wildlife management, we need a better understanding of basic cattle ecology. What do cattle, typical grazers, feed on in a habitat typically used by browsers? We determined cattle's resource use and selection at three scales: habitat and microhabitat selection when foraging and diet selection. Boreal forest is dominated by grass-poor habitats, and despite their strong selection for grass-rich habitats, cows spent a lot of time in suboptimal habitats, like old bilberry <em>(Vaccinium myrtillus)</em> spruce <em>(Picea abies)</em> forest. However, they managed to find grass-rich habitat patches within those, selecting for patches with bentgrass (<em>Agrostis</em> spp<em>.</em>)<em>.</em> Graminoids, mainly wavy hair-grass (<em>Avenella</em> spp<em>.</em>)<em>,</em> tussock grass (<em>Deschampsia</em>), and true sedges (<em>Carex</em> spp.)<em>,</em> made up the biggest part of the fecal samples. Woody plants, mainly willow (<em>Salix</em> spp<em>.</em>)<em>, Vaccinium</em> spp.<em>,</em> pine (<em>Pinus</em> spp<em>.</em>), and birch (<em>Betula</em> spp<em>.</em>)<em>,</em> made up 9.4% ± 4.7% of the samples, a value lower than reported for other forest grazing cattle. Cattle avoided woody plants in their diet and selected for graminoids. They preferred deciduous over coniferous species. At these low stocking densities, the cows were grazers in this browser's habitat. Moreover, they selected rather on habitat and patch scale than for individual plants within a given habitat patch, considered typical for a grazer. Their grass-rich diet indicates little overlap with the diet of local wild ungulates, which are mostly browsers. Their aversion of spruce and selection for graminoids and deciduous trees indicates low conflict risk for browsing damages and even a beneficial weeding effect on trees planted for timber production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001367/pdfft?md5=0bd0021f68eb93646f8808846b299629&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742423001367-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139473274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Analysis of the Cost and Cost Components of Conducting Prescribed Fires in the Great Plains","authors":"Maddie Watts,&nbsp;Aaron Russell,&nbsp;Saroj Adhikari,&nbsp;John Weir,&nbsp;Omkar Joshi","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2023.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fire is a naturally occurring process in the Great Plains and was anthropologically applied first by Native Americans and now by a diverse group of landholder types. Fire is a critical tool to help restore historical fire regimes in the region and maintain and grow benefits for agricultural outputs, risk reduction, and ecosystem maintenance. With the Great Plains dominated by private landholdings, lowering barriers to adoption of prescribed burning is important for increasing its use. Costs are a crucial decision element in adoption and regular use of prescribed burning. Using the responses from an Internet-based survey of prescribed burn professionals in the Great Plains, multivariate regression analysis based on cost can identify critical factors and behaviors. The average cost for a prescribed burn in this study is $11.37 per acre, which is comparatively less expensive than numbers reported elsewhere. Seven significant associated variables emerged including number of burns and acreage, firebreak type, and fuel characteristics. The results suggest that economies of scale play an important role in the cost of prescribed burning. Through the identification of the cost of prescribed burning and the factors that influence it, landowners, environmental managers, prescribed burn professionals, and government agencies in the Great Plains will be able to better understand and implement prescribed burns as part of their land management plans.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550742423001240/pdfft?md5=a271710a0194c4100ab925987353081b&pid=1-s2.0-S1550742423001240-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138545877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}