Talk:Managed intensive grazing

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[edit] Article title is wrong

Title of this article appears to be in extreme conflict with the first sentence. One says "Managed Intensive Grazing" and one says "Management Intensive Grazing". In the first case the comma is missing but "intensive" modifies "grazing". In the second "intensive" modified "management". So in one case the grasing is intense and the other the managment is intense. The rest of the article makes it clear the latter intepretation is correct: the cattle are instensely managed to get optimal results. Indeed it is the opposite of intensive grazing because the whole goal is to prevent intense overgrazing.

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.165.108.189 (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

"For farmers and ranchers with cattle in open fields, there is a tendency for the animals to beat down and trample the plants across a wide area. The animals also typically congregate in one area such as around a water tank, feeding wagon, and often in riparian areas where degredation of banks can have negative impacts on wildlife.

This repeated trampling of the same areas over and over destroys plant life faster than it can recover. Eventually sections of the field become a permanent swath of exposed soil. When it rains this turns into muck a foot deep, which in turn covers the animals and makes maintaining sanitary conditions difficult. These exposed tracts of land often serve as seed beds for invasive species of weeds."

I believe the paragraphs above need proper attribution and citations to actual research that point to negative impacts on wildlife.

In addition the line "When it rains this turns into muck a foot deep," seems to be a curious sentence.

Leanbarton 02:48, 30 September 2007 (UTC)