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Operating standards for Alberta’s Crown land grazing dispositions

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Describes the grazing dispositions available on Alberta's Crown land and has been updated to reflect the Crown Land Vision and to include the grazing dispositions administered under the Provincial... More ≫

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Describes the grazing dispositions available on Alberta's Crown land and has been updated to reflect the Crown Land Vision and to include the grazing dispositions administered under the Provincial Parks Act. This document compliments the Stewardship for Rangeland Sustainability document.

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Recommended grazing best management practices in coniferous and deciduous cutblocks in Alberta. Approximation 1

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Sustained timber yield cutblocks can be productive rangeland for both livestock and wildlife, however, careful management of these areas is requirement to ensure that both goals of successful... More ≫

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Sustained timber yield cutblocks can be productive rangeland for both livestock and wildlife, however, careful management of these areas is requirement to ensure that both goals of successful forest regeneration and maintenance of forage for livestock are achieved. After two years of meetings with the beef and timber industries, SRD released the Grazing and Timber Integration Manual. The purpose of the manual is to improve communication between overlapping grazing and timber disposition holders, thereby reducing conflict and facilitating integration. The manual requires overlapping disposition holders, thereby reducing conflict and facilitating integration. The manual requires overlapping disposition holders to discuss the potential impacts of their land management activities on each other's operations and develop operational planning agreements or Grazing Timber Agreements prior to any new integrated timber harvesting or grazing activities.

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Campbell Creek timber - grazing demonstration : cattle use of regenerating deciduous cutblocks

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This project involved the use of ten GPS collars to monitor cattle grazing behaviour and habitat use across a diverse mosaic of forested and non-forested range plant community types including... More ≫

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This project involved the use of ten GPS collars to monitor cattle grazing behaviour and habitat use across a diverse mosaic of forested and non-forested range plant community types including regenerating aspen forest. Cattle use of all native plant community types was secondary to tame forages, including aspen cutblocks. If there are other community types available that are preferred above regenerating deciduous communities cattle are unlikely to use cutblock areas until forage is depleted in the preferred community types, unless cutblocks are in close proximity to preferred communities and/or unless prompted to do so with livestock distribution tools.

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