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Perennial springs have continuously run in parts of the intermountain west for thousands of years. Including through the little ice age extreme droughts. Like springs in Europe, they can run for thousands of years unchanged, but are sensitive to pumping and ecology changes. The Salt-Verde system in Arizona has at least 1,000 perennial springs. Cattle have been observed to destroy them almost immediately upon the feds allowing grazing allotments near springs. I'm not against cattle farming, just against its use in sensitive watersheds and springs. You can dryland graze cattle in a huge area of northern Arizona's high desert plains easily without damaging tiny montane temperate watersheds.
Pic, non-riparian montane forest in AZ. Dominated by conifers, typically 70/30 conifer to deciduous. Less underbrush cover but the expansive nature of these forests generates significant local rainfall and snowfall over huge areas.
Perennial springs have continuously run in parts of the intermountain west for thousands of years. Including through the little ice age extreme droughts. Like springs in Europe, they can run for thousands of years unchanged, but are sensitive to pumping and ecology changes. The Salt-Verde system in Arizona has at least 1,000 perennial springs. Cattle have been observed to destroy them almost immediately upon the feds allowing grazing allotments near springs. I'm not against cattle farming, just against its use in sensitive watersheds and springs. You can dryland graze cattle in a huge area of northern Arizona's high desert plains easily without damaging tiny montane temperate watersheds.
Pic, non-riparian montane forest in AZ. Dominated by conifers, typically 70/30 conifer to deciduous. Less underbrush cover but the expansive nature of these forests generates significant local rainfall and snowfall over huge areas.
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