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In 1999, the Utah Legislature allocated $200,000 per annum in ongoing funds to the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station to support a project entitled the Cedar Mountain Initiative (CMI). This initiative was earmarked to conduct "research to determine how rangeland may be managed to support both livestock and wildlife and investigate the replacement of aspen by conifers."
Upon receiving the initial funding, a multidisciplinary team of scientists, including representatives from Range Science, Animal Science, Wildlife Biology, Rural Sociology, and Forestry were assembled to conduct this research program in a total system approach. Major CMI objectives are:
1. Identify optimal
plant communities for potential end uses, e.g. cattle, sheep, elk, deer,
water, avifauna, etc.
2. Ascertain ecological sustainability of mixed livestock-wildlife
enterprises and associated plant-soil complexes.
3. Provide management techniques to create optimal
plant communities that will sustain desired combinations of enterprises.
REPORT: LOSS OF LIVESTOCK FORAGE AS CONIFERS REPLACE HISTORIC ASPEN STANDS
REPORT: RESTORATION OF ASPEN IN DIFFERENT STAGES OF MORTALITY IN SOUTHERN UTAH
REPORT: THE ROLE OF SECONDARY COMPOUNDS IN ASPEN AND THEIR ROLE IN UNGULATE PREFERENCE
REPORT: THE RESTORATION OF DEGRADED TALL FORB RANGELANDS OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST
REPORT: LIVESTOCK/WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS ON ASPEN RANGELANDS
REPORT: BREEDING BIRD DIVERSITY ON PRIVATE RANGELANDS IN UTAH
REPORT: Cedar Mountain Initiative Citizens Liaision Committee
HANDOUT: The Restoration of Degraded Tall Forb Rangelands the Intermountain West
BROCHURE: Managing Aspen in Western Landscapes
REPORT: LANDOWNERS’ ADOPTION OF LIVESTOCK AND RANGE MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS
PRESENTATION: LANDOWNERS’ ADOPTION OF LIVESTOCK AND RANGE MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS
REPORT: EFFECTS OF POCKET GOPHERS ON ASPEN REGENERATION AND HERBACEOUS VEGETATION IN UTAH
PRESENTATION: CMI Livestock Research
