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Graze Anatomy
Conservation land in flood zone opened to grazing |
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09 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 1:26 PM on 09 Jul 2008 Livestock grazing will be allowed on thousands of acres of Midwest land that had been set aside for conservation, Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schaeffer announced this week. Under the federal Conservation Reserve Program, landowners are paid to let their acreage just chill out and be wildlife habitat. But after the region's recent spate of flooding, Schaeffer gave in to the requests of sev ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, habitat loss, livestock, news (all these topics) |
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Grass Backwards
Carbon dioxide contributing to un-grassing of grassland, says new study |
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29 Aug 2007 |
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| Grass Backwards Carbon dioxide contributing to un-grassing of grassland, says new study Thanks in part to rising levels of carbon dioxide, the world's grasslands are turning into woody shrublands, says a new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. When researchers artificially doubled CO2 levels over sections of the Colorado plains, they observed a fortyfold increase in the growth of fringed ... |
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