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Task Force publications

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The College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences is aggressively involved in finding solutions to current problems in New Mexico. These reports from Task force reports are publications that report commissioned studies or the efforts undertaken by interdisciplinary task forces.

Water Task Force

New Mexico Chile Association/Chile Task Force

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Range Improvement Task Force

  • Report 1: Estimated Benefits and Costs of State Ownership of BLM Lands in NM
  • Report 2: Market Values of Federal Grazing Permits in NM
  • Report 3: Statement Summary Presented by RITF
  • Report 4: A Bibliography of Forest and Rangeland NonPoint Sources of Pollution
  • Report 5: Appraisal of BLM Responses to RITF Public Comments on Grazing Environmental Impact Statements
  • Report 6: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating Grazing Management Plans; A Guide for Public Land Livestock Operations
  • Report 7: Guide to NM Range Analysis
  • Report 8: Characteristics of State Non-Game Management Programs in 1980
  • Report 9: Innovative Features for a Range Stewardship Program in NM, 1980
  • Report 10: A Bibliography of Literature Related to Grazing Systems
  • Report 11: Reassessment of Grazing Allotments in the BLM Roswell and Socorro Districts
  • Report 12: Grazing Lease Arrangements and Costs of Privately Owned Rangelands in NM, 1980
  • Report 13: A Rancher's Guide for Monitoring Deer and Antelope Populations in NM
  • Report 14: The Prices Paid Index in the Federal Grazing Fee Formula
  • Report 15: Alternative Valuation Methods for Cattle Ranches on the White Sands Missle Range 1942-1982
  • Report 16: Control of Kangaroo Rats with Poison Baits
  • Report 17: Methods and Compensations for Ranch Properties and Grazing Permits on the White Sands Missle Range
  • Report 18: Private Land Grazing Transactions in NM 1983-84, Implications for State Trust Land Grazing Fees
  • Report 19: Potential Returns for Landowner Management of Wildlife
  • Report 20: Financial Status of the Range Livestock Industry: The NM Example
  • Report 22: NM Hunter-Rancher Relationships Survey
  • Report 25: Legal Liability of Landowners with Fee Hunting Enterprises
  • Report 26: Procedures For Preparing Contracts Associated with Fee Hunting Enterprises
  • Report 31: The Value of Public Land Grazing Permits and the Grazing Fee Dilemma
  • Report 32: The Importance of Public Lands to Livestock Productions in the U.S.
  • Report 34: RITF Critical Review of RANGELAND REFORM '94: BLM Proposed Rulemaking; FS Proposed Rulemaking; EIS Scoping Issues
  • Report 37: Monitoring and Interpreting Ecological Integrity on Arid and Semi-Arid Lands of the Western United States
  • Report 40: The Economic Impact of Protecting the Knowlton Cactus (Pediocactus knowltonii) Under the Endangered Species Act
  • Report 43: Management of Mountain Mahogany and Wright's Silktassel to Increase Browse Availability for Big Game
  • Report 47: Forage Utilization by Elk and Livestock in Selected Riparian Areas in the Gila National Forest
  • Report 49: Herbaceous Utilization by Elk in Selected Meadows in the Gila Wilderness, Gila National Forest
  • Report 52: Diets of Elk, Mule Deer & Coues White-Tailed Deer on Fort Bayard in Southwestern New Mexico
  • Report 53: Monitoring Rangelands in NM
  • Report 57: Impacts of Controlled Grazing Versus Grazing Exclusions on Rangeland Ecosystems: What We Have Learned
  • Report 58: Using the Rapid Assessment Methodology (RAM) to make Adaptive Management Decisions
  • Report 60: 2005 Summary of Range Brush Control Research: Demonstration Trials in NM
  • Report 67: Characteristics of the United States Organic Beef Industry
  • Report 69: Montane Meadow and Open Area Encroachment in the Lincoln Forest, Sacramento Grazing Allotment
  • Report 70: The Financial and Ecological Impacts of Two Stocking Levels on Chihauhuan Desert Rangeland
  • Report 71: Range Livestock Costs and Returns for New Mexico, 1998
  • Report 72: Range Livestock Costs and Returns for New Mexico, 1999
  • Report 73: Range Livestock Costs and Returns for New Mexico - 2000
  • Report 74: Range Livestock Costs and Returns for New Mexico - 2001
  • Report 75: Range Livestock Costs and Returns for New Mexico, 2002
  • Report 76: Data Entry, Organization and Analysis for Rapid Assessment Metholology
  • Report 78: Review of Livestock Management Practices to Minimize Livestock Depreciation by Wolves: Applicability to the Southwest
  • Report 400 B-18: Brush Control on New Mexico Rangeland

Range Improvement Task Force publications are distributed by the Extension Animal Resources department. Contact the Department of Extension Animal Resources, MSC 3AE, Room 314, Knox Hall, (575) 646-5102. ritf@nmsu.edu

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