We overgraze grasslands, clearcut forests, overharvest fisheries, and overdraw aquifers. From Wordnik.com. ['Trouble in Paradise': An Exchange] Reference
Thou shalt not overgraze thy sheep till pastures disappear and famine visits the land. 6. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Commandments] Reference
There is evidence that they become more abundant when domestic livestock overgraze the land. From Wordnik.com. [15 Agouti] Reference
They overgraze areas allowing severe erosion resulting in further degradation of the habitat. From Wordnik.com. [Galápagos Islands xeric scrub] Reference
Humans overfish the seas, overgraze the meadows, overpollute the air, and overdrive the highways. From Wordnik.com. [WoW to open for-pay character transfers soon?] Reference
The prey then overgraze, taking food and habitat from other species and lowering the ecosystem's biodiversity. From Wordnik.com. [Do you think that the long term ecological damage caused by exterminating predators or holding them well below their natural pop] Reference
What Ms. DeGeneres seems to miss is that horses are rapid herbivores who left to themselves overgraze their range. From Wordnik.com. [Arriving on the computer blog site of the Internet blogosphere.] Reference
While livestock overgraze and over-enrich the soil, they may enhance floral diversity by limiting the growth of taller more vigorous plants. From Wordnik.com. [Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India] Reference
Sea otters can suppress sea urchin populations to such an extent that urchins are unlikely to overgraze the kelp and other members of the community. From Wordnik.com. [Top-down control] Reference
However, moufflon overgraze the higher parts of the massif where the flora is poor, leading to the decline of high altitude plant species and an increase in inedible species. From Wordnik.com. [Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands] Reference
If all of her friends were grazing on one patch of grass, she had always found it helpful to find another patch for herself, which would give her more food and not overgraze that particular area. From Wordnik.com. [First Warning]
Now, if the pastoralists get money when they overgraze, won't that encourage overgrazing and the further destruction of the environment, perhaps to the point where no one will want to insure them?. From Wordnik.com. [Risky Weather] Reference
In a famous 1968 essay, biologist Garrett Hardin postulated that in a pasture, open to all, competitive behavior would impel cattlemen to overgraze their animals beyond the capacity the commons can handle. From Wordnik.com. [Paras Bhayani: Stroger and Madigan Meet Econ 101] Reference
Only thirteen inches of rain could be expected each year, barely enough to keep things going, and if a rancher allowed his stock to overgraze an area, it could take five or six years for the grass to recover. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
We overfish, overeat, overgraze, overcut until we have no more. From Wordnik.com. [Grist - the Latest from Grist] Reference
Mow regularly, pick up manure and don't overgraze-pastures will stay healthy. From Wordnik.com. [TheHorse.com News] Reference
If we were to overgraze, as Monahan asserts, we would soon find ourselves out of business. From Wordnik.com. [greatfallstribune.com - Local News] Reference
Palestinian herders are forced to overgraze the diminished plots left to them, turning pastureland into desert. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Katrin Chandler, another petitioner from the Absarokee area, compares the situation to allowing cattle to overgraze. From Wordnik.com. [billingsgazette.com] Reference
After about 10 days the fry should be removed from the parents or else they may overgraze and damage the parents skin. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Fenton built stock dams to complement the artesian wells and was careful not to overstock his herd or overgraze his pastures. From Wordnik.com. Reference
For example, the pika shares its habitat with free-range and feral cattle that overgraze on the pika's vegetation food source. From Wordnik.com. [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference
Do not overgraze: When pastures are continually overgrazed, plants are weakened and many productive species die, and unproductive ones replace them. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And it is believed the natural crashes in the herds are linked to the way the caribou go hungry if they overgraze lichens that can take years to recover. From Wordnik.com. [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference
For instance, if people overgraze lands, "these bacteria are without a home ... and can have serious consequences, possibly, for lack of rainfall," Sands said. From Wordnik.com. [Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed] Reference
"The wild horse population doubles about every four years, and the effects of that are they will overgraze the land," said Sally Spencer of the BLM's National Wild Horse and Burro Program. From Wordnik.com. [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference
Ranchers will overgraze fields (remember the Dust Bowl?) and miners will pollute the land they control, because they don't care about some future benefit they may never realize, from good stewardship. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
"In theory farming kangaroos is probably good because they are selective grazers, don't tend to overgraze country and have a good conversion rate of feed into meat," he said from his farm Ykicamoocow. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
It quotes farmers who have written to it saying that the process promotes "worst practice farming, ie to overgraze and overspend in good times, knowing the criteria for subsidy will be met in the drought.". From Wordnik.com. [Peter Martin] Reference
Looks like it’s up to the regular shepherds to overgraze the commons or not. From Wordnik.com. [Report on the U. Kentucky Law ID lectures - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It is hard to overgraze an idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
They overgraze and then there are weeds. From Wordnik.com. [billingsgazette.com] Reference
Miles) of land in Laikipia district, say the herders, who collectively own adjoining land, overgraze and they cattle fall more quickly victim to drought. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
“you’re beginning to overgraze your range.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Taint in the Blood]
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