Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Version of Record
Publication Date
2-2016
Keywords
Ecological sites, wildlife-livestock interaction, species diversity, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Abstract
On the Ground
- The perception of prairie dogs among Native Americans living on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is mixed. Some Native Americans focus on the loss of forage productivity, whereas others are interested in the cultural and ecological aspects of prairie dogs.
- The use of ecological sites may provide a mechanism for developing a management framework that would consider both livestock and prairie dogs.
- The three ecological sites we surveyed had large differences in off-colony standing crop, but in 2 of the 3 years we surveyed, there were no differences between standing crop on-colony.
- This suggests that management of prairie dogs on rangelands should focus on limiting prairie dogs on more productive ecological sites with less productive sites receiving less emphasis.
Publication Title
Rangelands
Volume
38
Issue
1
First Page
23
Last Page
28
Pages
6
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.rala.2015.11.001
Publisher
Elsevier
Rights
Copyright © the Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Hendrickson, John R.; Johnson, Patricia S.; Liebig, Mark A.; Sedivec, Kevin K.; and Halvorson, Gary A., "Use of Ecological Sites in Managing Wildlife and Livestock: An Example with Prairie Dogs" (2016). Natural Resource Management Faculty Publications. 193.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/nrm_pubs/193
Comments
This work was published in Rangelands (2016) 38:1 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2015.11.001