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Targeted Grazing: A Natural Approach to Vegetation Management and Landscape Enhancement
    A handbook on grazing as a new ecological service
 
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Cover & Acknowledgements

Reader's Guide

SECTION I: Principles and Overview

Chapter 1: Targeted Grazing – a New Paradigm for Livestock Management
    By Karen Launchbaugh and John Walker
Chapter 2: Animal Behavior Principles and Practices
    By Elizabeth Burritt and Rachel Frost
Chapter 3: Animal Husbandry of Sheep and Goats for Vegetative Management
    By Rodney Kott, Tim Faller, Jim Knight, Dan Nudell, and Brent Roeder
Chapter 4: Understanding Plant Response to Grazing
    By John Hendrickson and Bret Olson
Chapter 5: Monitoring for Success
    By Steven H. Sharrow and Steven S. Seefeldt
Chapter 6: Improving Grazing Lands with Multi-Species Grazing
    By John W. Walker, Linda Coffey, and Tim Faller

SECTION II: Meeting Vegetation Management Goals
Chapter 7: Managing Herbaceous Broadleaf Weeds with Targeted Grazing
    By Bret Olson and Karen Launchbaugh
Chapter 8: Targeted Livestock Grazing to Suppress Invasive Annual Grasses
    By Jeffrey C. Mosley and Lovina Roselle
Chapter 9: Targeted Grazing to Manage Weedy Brush and Trees
    By Erika Campbell and Charles A. Taylor, Jr.
Chapter 10: Applying Targeted Grazing to Coniferous Forest Management In Western North America
    By Steven Sharrow
Chapter 11: Targeted Grazing with Sheep and Goats in Orchard Settings
    By Linda M. Wilson and Linda H. Hardestry
Chapter 12: Targeted Grazing to Manage Fire Risk
    By Charles A. Taylor, Jr.
Chapter 13: Targeted Livestock Grazing for Wildlife Habitat Improvement
    By Jeffrey C. Mosley and Tracy K. Brewer
Chapter 14: Incorporating Targeted Grazing into Farming Systems
    By Patrick Hatfield, Hayes Goosey, Andrew Lenssen, and Sue Blodgett

SECTION III: Guidelines for Specific Plants
Chapter 15: Grazing and Browsing Guidelines for Invasive Rangeland Weed
    By Linda Wilson, Jason Davison, and Ed Smith

  Forbs Including: Bull Thistle, Canada Thistle, Diffuse Knapweed, Hoary Cress, Kudzu, Leafy Spurge, Musk Thistle, Perennial Pepperweed (or Tall Whitetop), Russian Knapweed, Scotch Thistle, Sericea, Spotted Knapweed, Tansy Ragwort, Yellow Starthistle. || Woody Plants Including: Blackberries, Juniper Trees, Multiflora Rose, Pine, Saltcedar || Grasses: Cheatgrass and Medusahead  

SECTION IV: Applying Targeted Grazing
Chapter 16: A Primer for Providers of Land Enhancement
    By An Peischel

Chapter 17: Contracting for Grazing and Browsing to Achieve Resource Management Objectives: A Primer for Land Managers
    By D. Dickinson Henry, Jr.

SECTION V: Getting More Information
Chapter 18: Additional Resources for Targeted Grazing
    Compiled by Linda Coffey, Margo Hale, and Elayne Hovde

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© 2006 ASI, A. Peischel and D.D. Henry, Jr.
Copyright for this handbook is held by the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI), except for Chapter 16 for which copyright is held by An Peischel and Chapter 17 for which copyright is held by D. Dickinson Henry, Jr. Both these chapters are printed here with permission.

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