Although livestock grazing is wide-spread on public and private lands throughout most of the western United States, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the effects of this land-use on native plants, animals, and ecosystems. There is an abundance of literature on many aspects of this activity, and in 2005, the Bureau of Land Management in cooperation with Wyoming Department of Agriculture tasked an inter-agency committee with assembling all published material on livestock grazing in arid lands of the Wyoming Basins ( a large region covering portions of WY, MT, CO, and UT). The committee further was tasked with synthesizing the information in a readily distributable format. This synthesis is not intended to be an all-inclusive guide to grazing management in sage-grouse habitat, but rather an information reference that sage-grouse local working groups and land managers may utilize as they develop recommended grazing practices for promoting the conservation of sage-grouse and sagebrush habitats.

The committee reviewed the available literature and compiled a list of management practices from the documents. This Review of Livestock Grazing Management Literature Addressing Grazing Management for Sage-Grouse Habitat. This information reference is intended as a tool that sage-grouse local working groups and land managers may utilize as they develop recommended grazing practices for promoting the conservation of sage-grouse and sagebrush habitats.

The committee the created a Synthesis of Livestock Grazing Management Literature Addressing Grazing Management for Greater Sage-Grouse Habitat in the Wyoming Basin - Southern Rocky Mountains Ecoregions from this list of management practices. This Synthesis further organized the references.

All citations from the Literature Review and Synthesis were entered into the Great Basin Bibliography, keyworded for easy searching, and linked to original documents when available.