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Grazingnet.org is a web-based interactive news and information network dedicated to increasing our user's knowledge and understanding of livestock-wildlife interactions.


Access to scientific-based information about livestock-wildlife interactions is essential to increasing cooperation and communication between stakeholders concerning livestock grazing and wildlife management. Aldo Leopold in his 1934 text book entitled "Game Management," identified four main tools that could be used to manage wildlife and the habitats on which they depend. These included the cow, plow, axe, and fire. Of these the cow remains the most controversial.

This website is a product of the Cedar Mountain Initiative (CMI), Wildlife Information Network (WIN) and the Intermountain West Adaptive Resource Management Plan (IWARM). The goals of CMI, WIN and IWARM are to enhance the professionalism of wildlife managers, increase the use of scientific information in decisions that affect wildlife and their habitats, and build community-based conservation partnerships that enhance the role and ownership of local communities in natural resource policy decisions that affect their culture and socioeconomic well-being.

 

 

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Grazingnet.org is sponsored by The Wildlife Society, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, National Pork Producers Council. It was developed under the auspices and direction of the Quinney Professorship for Wildlife Conflict Management and is supported by the S.J. Jessie and Quinney Foundation, Jack H. Berryman Institute, the Cedar Mountain Initiative, the Utah Legislature, Utah State University Extension Service and College of Natural Resources, and the Utah Chapter of the Wildlife Society.