Download or read book Range-Wide Assessment of Livestock Grazing Across the Sagebrush Biome written by U.S. Department of the Interior and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic livestock grazing occurs in virtually all sagebrush habitats and is a prominent disturbance factor. By affecting habitat condition and trend, grazing influences the resources required by, and thus, the distribution and abundance of sagebrush-obligate wildlife species (for example, sage-grouse Centrocercus spp.). Yet, the risks that livestock grazing may pose to these species and their habitats are not always clear. Although livestock grazing intensity and associated habitat condition may be known in many places at the local level, we have not yet been able to answer questions about use, condition, and trend at the landscape scale or at the range-wide scale for wildlife species.