demand management and grazing in the great basin hillary m. hoffmann vermont law school
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DEMAND MANAGEMENT AND GRAZING IN THE GREAT BASIN
Hillary M. HoffmannVermont Law School
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AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS FACING FEDERAL
RANGELANDS
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The Great Basin
-easternside of Sierras to Wasatch Mtns-central Oregon to Mojave Desert
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Why focus on the Great Basin?
• Why focus on the Great Basin to discuss climate change and the federal range?
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The region will warm by 3.6-9° by 2101
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As it warms, it will dry…
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Known Climate Change Effects:
• Annual average temps will continue to warm for the indefinite future (3.6-9°F by 2101);
• Increase in evapotranspiration;• Loss of snowpack; • Increased winter precip. and decreased
summer precip.• ?
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What that Means for Rangelands:
• Drier conditions across all allotments• Less precipitation on all allotments• Less forage on all allotments• Hotter conditions during summer pasturing
season
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What does Demand Management entail, generally?
• Resource monitoring;• Agency accountability for resource losses over
a certain percentage per season;• Resource use subject to quota;• Policies to encourage research and
development, user training;• Resource conservation practices;• Consequences for failure to comply.
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What does Forage Demand Management entail?
• Forage monitoring;• Agency accountability for forage losses over a
certain percentage per season;• Forage use subject to annual quota;• Policies to encourage research and
development, permittee training;• Water conservancy practices;• Consequences for failure to comply
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What can Demand Management do for the Great Basin?
• It can accommodate the certainty of global climate change more easily than legislation.
• It dovetails with the existing regulatory structure – FLPMA planning process– TGA and GTA allotment-level planning process
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How Does WDM fit within the current climate change strategy?
• Obama Exec Orders –– Managing risks associated with climate
changes requires deliberate preparation, close cooperation, and coordinated planning by the federal Government, as well as by stakeholders….
– Feds must pursue “new strategies” to improve the Nation’s resilience and preparedness.
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To that End…
• The Federal Government should – reform policies that may increase the vulnerability of natural or built systems, or natural resources, to climate change related risks…
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References
• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Managing Water in the West (2007);
• NASA, Earth Exchange Downscale Project;• Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural
Resources, U. of Colorado Law School (B. Udall, 2013);
• IPCC 4th Assessment, USGCRP 2009 National Assessment.