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<TITLE>Educational handout</TITLE>
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<p><i><b>Texas Ranching Conservancy</b></i></p>
<p><img src="pictures/rcrp5.jpg" width="400" height="250" alt="Lightly stocked mid-grass prairie in North-central Texas" border="0">
<p><font face="Arial"><font color="C35617"><H3><B>Ways society destroys rangelands</B></H3></font></font></p>
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<p><i><b>Here's a list of ways:</b></i>
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<li> Overstocking and overgrazing with either domestic livestock and/or wildlife<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Tilling native rangeland, thereby exposing fertile soil to water and wind erosion, and destroying the carbon sequestrating ability of the land<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Replacing native range forage with exotic vegetation<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Reducing soil fertility through intensive agricultural practices and hauling away above-ground biomass<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Poisoning and sterilizing rangeland soil with chemical fertilizers, petroleum based pesticides, and industrial weed killers<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Suppressing the occurrence of natural wildfire regimes and described burns<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Depleting and polluting under- and above-ground water aquifers<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Transforming perennial native range vegetation into annual mono-culture crops.<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Cutting-up large tracks of undivided rangeland and converting them into small-size, subdivided fragments (parcels).<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Promoting economic development by fragmenting rangeland regions with roads, highways, freeways, and interstates<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Converting agriculturally and ecologically important rangeland into hobby ranches, exotic game preserves, ranchettes, country housing, rural subdivisions, and other types of human activities and development projects<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
<li> Permanently ruining agriculturally and ecologically important rangeland with oil and gas wells, pipelines, pit mining operations, oil and chemical refiners, and other types of industrial endeavors.<br><IMG SRC="pictures/dot_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=20 BORDER=0><br>
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<P><A HREF="reading.html#information"><B>Back</b></a> to <font color="#8B4513"><b>TRC</b></font>'s recommended reading</p>
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<P>http://www.texasranchingconservancy.com/ecodestruction.html
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