@inproceedings{b1fa8489ce844d4d880db235e29d5209,
title = "Optimization of grazing management for watershed sediment control",
abstract = "Grazing on rangelands can increase erosion that is a major source of nonpoint source pollution. Grazing management is important in maintaining vegetation cover, which consequently impacts erosion and sediment yield. This paper uses a representative ranch model to define grazing management from an economic perspective. The model maximizes the profit of a representative ranch that can utilize all grazing lands in a watershed with constraints on forage resources, sustainable utilization, and production technology and sediment yield control objectives. A case study for the Walnut Gulch Watershed in Arizona showed a shift of the spatial distribution of optimal stocking rates with increasing sediment control objectives.",
keywords = "Economics, Non-linear Programming, Rangeland, Spatial optimization, Stock rate",
author = "Y. Duan and P. Heilman and {Phillip Guertin}, D.",
year = "2006",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "1424308526",
series = "Proceedings of the iEMSs 3rd Biennial Meeting,{"} Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software{"}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the iEMSs 3rd Biennial Meeting,Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software",
note = "3rd Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society: Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software, iEMSs 2006 ; Conference date: 09-07-2006 Through 13-07-2006",
}