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- verb Present participle of
overgraze . - noun Excessive
grazing to an extent that the land is damaged.
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Examples
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Now that wolves are back, the overgrazing is being limited and trees are once again able to grow to that critical height.
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Now that wolves are back, the overgrazing is being limited and trees are once again able to grow to that critical height.
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In my view, the Fed on the whole acts very cautiously when establishing Federal land use, and to some degree (such as overgrazing in New Mexico) not strongly enough.
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In my view, the Fed on the whole acts very cautiously when establishing Federal land use, and to some degree (such as overgrazing in New Mexico) not strongly enough.
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Nonetheless, Yamal Nenets are currently showing signs of stress adapting to the recent barrage of simultaneous changes in their homeland – from health and demography [3] to questions of land tenure [4] and increasingly severe "overgrazing", predation, and poaching on reindeer pastures [5].
Climate change impacts on the Yamal Nenets of northwest Siberia 2009
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Fragmentation of remaining habitat via subdividing large tracts into more marketable "ranchettes" leads to other degrading factors such as overgrazing, exotic plant expansion, lack of fire as a natural or prescribed process, and modification of local hydrological features by means of land leveling.
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Impacts of human activities (such as overgrazing or soil salinization) and climatic variables (such as interannual variability in rainfall and drought events) on vegetation productivity are difficult to distinguish.
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Sustainable land use can address human activities such as overgrazing, overexploitation of plants, trampling of soils, and unsustainable irrigation practices that exacerbate dryland vulnerability.
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Most of those apparently harmless acts were minor, gradual, routine; even the larger uses of the land - such as overgrazing or tilling the fields - were so common that no one thought twice about them.
Crosscut 2009
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Jets fly low over the area on an almost daily basis, livestock is impounded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the pretense that resisters are "overgrazing" the land, and, due to the special Bennet Freeze clause of P. L.93-531 (which foresaw the possibility of a resistance) Dine people living on what is now Hopi Partitioned Land cannot legally upgrade their housing (i.e. repair a hole in their roof during the winter) without facing the threat of arrest because they no longer legally own the property their families have lived on for centuries.
- Front Page 2008
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