Range Cup 2017

Range Cup Topic 

• Multiple candidates for local and national political offices have proposed transferring the management of federal lands to the states in which those lands occur. If such a transfer of responsibility were to take place, there are potential broad-reaching impacts on rangelands and the communities that depend upon them.

• Describe how such a transfer would affect multiple-use rangelands from an ecological perspective.

• Discuss the potential socio-economic impacts that this would have on a) rural communities and b) large metropolitan areas in the western U.S.

• Use logic and literature to support your arguments. Give appropriate credit for any information you use that was generated by others.

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