Arizona Permittee and Land Management Agency Employee Attitudes Toward Rangeland Monitoring by Permittees

Ongoing conflicts over the management of western rangelands can be attributed in part to the lack of reliable information about current ecological conditions and their causes due, in turn, to insufficient monitoring. To meet the monitoring shortfall, land management agencies increasingly are enlisti...

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Veröffentlicht in:Rangeland ecology & management 2005-07, Vol.58 (4), p.344-351
Hauptverfasser: Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria E., McClaran, Susan Jorstad, Ruyle, George
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Zusammenfassung:Ongoing conflicts over the management of western rangelands can be attributed in part to the lack of reliable information about current ecological conditions and their causes due, in turn, to insufficient monitoring. To meet the monitoring shortfall, land management agencies increasingly are enlisting permittees to monitor their grazing allotments. We surveyed grazing permittees in 5 Arizona counties and land management agency employees throughout Arizona to compare their attitudes toward permittee monitoring on public rangelands, the role of government in rangeland management, rangeland conditions in Arizona, and the credibility of information sources about rangelands. Permittees and agency employees differed in most of the attitudes measured by our survey. However, both populations agreed that permittees should participate in monitoring their allotments, and many respondents agreed with making permittee monitoring mandatory. Many respondents in both groups also agreed that collaboration can be beneficial. Joint monitoring, which can be considered a type of “joint fact-finding,” may help improve agency–permittee relationships and bridge the gap in attitudes and underlying values. Permittee-monitoring programs deserve careful evaluation to determine their impacts on social relationships, management decisions, and ecological conditions. Los continuos conflictos sobre el manejo de los pastizales del oeste, pueden ser atribuidos, en parte, a la falta de información confiable sobre las condiciones ecológicas actuales y sus causas, debido a el monitoreo insuficiente. Para subsanar el déficit de monitoreo, las agencias de manejo de tierras cada vez mas están enlistando los permisionarios para monitorear sus asignaciones de tierras de pastizal. Examinamos permisionarios en 5 condados de Arizona y a los empleados de agencias federales a través de Arizona para comparar sus actitudes hacia el monitoreo de las concesiones en los pastizales públicos de Arizona, el papel del gobierno en el manejo de pastizales, las condiciones de los pastizales en Arizona y la credibilidad de las fuentes de información sobre pastizales. Los permisionarios y los empleados de las agencias difirieron en la mayoría de las actitudes medidas en muestro estudio. Sin embargo, ambas poblaciones acordaron que los permisionarios deben participar monitoreando sus asignaciones, y muchos de los que respondieron concordaron en que el monitoreo de las concesiones debe ser obligatorio. Muchos de los pa
ISSN:1550-7424
1551-5028
DOI:10.2111/1551-5028(2005)058[0344:APALMA]2.0.CO;2