Bringing History Into Range Management: A Synthesis of a Symposium at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management

摘要

Range scientists, managers, and practitioners can benefit by including history in their current monitoring and restoration efforts. A symposium at the 2012 SRM Annual Meeting explored three questions: How did certain assumptions toward the ecology anduse of rangelands influence the development of range science and its application? How can land managers apply history to their current work? How can range science evolve in order to meet the challenges of the 21 st century? The symposium highlighted theneed for an interdisciplinary approach toward understanding the past and confronting the future of rangelands.