ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, Sustainable Development, Pastoralism

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Environmental Science, Policy, And Management
• Course: ESPM 50AC
• Professor: Spreyer Kurt

Document Summary

Lecture 18 - unit iii introduction - outline. Blackboard: du buys: enchantment and exploitation, unit web sites posted, aridity: http://www. nhc. rtp. nc. us/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/aridwest. htm. Framing resource management history in northern new mexico. Range management and sustainable development in rio arriba. Physical geography: northern new mexico, northern grande valley, rocky, heme and sango de criste mountains, great spatial and temporal diversity thanks to change in altitude 3,000-13,000 feet. Climate: not much rain, rain like monsoon storms in fall and early winter, snow high in the mountains leading to spring runoff as primary source of water, recourse affecting management. Ecology: micro ecosystems based on north, east, south, west facing o. Invasive species, perennial grasses in hi country: west: mixed spruce fur and aspen trees, east and lower areas: pinyin junipers, bunch grass, lower: sage brush. Resources: grazing grasses with water, game, timber, few minerals, agriculture lands in lower elevations, corn bean squash.