Bring all the information you know about this topic, so that we may discuss impacts of livestock grazing on western rangelands. In addition to general discussion, be prepared you should be prepared to support or refute all the issues raised by Freilich et al. (2003).
Extinction spike is particularly relevant to this discussion
Extinction: drivers, outcomes, solutions
Individual actions
System drivers
Response thresholds for:
Livestock grazing on public lands: an argument that may succeed
Consequences of adopting the latter argument
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Vavra, M., W.A. Laycock, and R.D. Pieper, editors. 1994. Ecological Implications of Livestock Herbivory in the West. Society for Range Maangement, Denver, Colorado.
Wuerthner, G., and M. Matteson, editors. 2002. Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West. Island Press, Washington, D.C.