October 13-29:  Domestication, Pastoralism, & Ranching

How humans have made use of the ecological adaptations of herbivores to grasslands.

Oct. 13: Domestication

J. Diamond. 2002. Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication. Nature, 418:700-707

Oct. 15: Pastoralism

Sandford, S. 1983. Management of pastoral development in the third world. Overseas

Development Institute (ODI), London, UK.

Davies, J. 2008. Chapter 2, Pastoralism and Pastoralists, p 65-76. IN: People and Policy in Rangeland Management, Prepared by the International Rangeland Congress. Hohot, China

Oct. 17: Pastoralism vs. Ranching

Huntsinger, L. and J.W. Bartolome. 2004. Ranching. pgs. 1033-1034. IN: Encyclopedia of World Environmental History.

Galaly, J.G. 2004.Pastoralism. p. 988. IN:  Encyclopedia of World Environmental History.

Oct. 20: Ranching Production Cycle

Huntsinger, Lynn, Bartolome, J.W. and C.M. D’Antonio. 2007. Chapter 20. Grazing management of California grasslands. In: Ecology and Management of California Grasslands, Corbin J, Stromberg M, and D’Antonio CM (eds). UC Press, Berkeley, CA. Read only p 233-239

George, M., Nader, G. and J. Dunbar. 2001. Balancing Beef Cow Nutrient Requirements andSeasonal Forage Quality on Annual Rangeland. ANR  Publ. 8021, Div. of Agric. And Nat. Res., Univ. of

Calif., Oakland, Calif. 9 pgs.

Oct. 22 Ranching:  Calculating and Allocating Animal Use

--AUM calculator

Oct. 24: Ranching

Forero, L. et al. 2004. Sample costs for beef cattle cow-calf production. UC Cooperative Extension. BFSV-04: 1-10

Oct 27: Ranching and Alternate Forms of Production

Larson, S. et al. 2004. Sample costs for a cowcalf/grass-fed beef operation. UC Cooperative Extension. BF-NC-04: 1-20.

Niman, B. and J. Fletcher. 2005. The Niman Ranch Cookbook. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA. Ch. 1,2,4.

Oct 29:  Quiz

Additional References

Coppock, D.L., J.E. Ellis, and D.M. Swift. 1986. Livestock feeding ecology and resource utilization in a nomadic pastoral ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology 23, no. 2: 573-84.

Ellis, James E., and David M. Swift. 1988. Stability of African pastoral ecosystems: alternative paradigms and implications for development. Journal of Range Management 41, no. 6: 450-59.

Khazanov, A.M. 1994. Nomads and the Outside World, second edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Galaty, J.G. and Johnson, D.L. 1990. The World of pastoralism : herding systems in comparative perspective

Emery Roe, Lynn Huntsinger, and Keith Labnow. 1998. High reliability pastoralism.   J. Arid Environments 39: 39-55.

Ingold, T. 1980. Hunters, Pastoralists, and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and their Transformations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Fernández-Giménez, María. 1993. The role of ecological perception in indigenous resource management: a case study from the Mongolian forest-steppe. Nomadic Peoples 33: 31-46.

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Paper I due Nov 7: evolution, coevolution, and history of use of a domesticated mammalian herbivore.

Introduction:  what animal, what you will cover

    Evolutionary history

    Habitat

    Diet (including anatomy)

    History of interactions with people

    Current status (other things of interest)

    Citations