Cattle grazing hurts arid ecosystems in North America, says the Western North American Naturalist journal in a recent review of research. Allison Jones of the Wild Utah Project says grazing is a significant source of soil erosion. The WNAN journal Web site is at www.lib.byu.edu/~nms/.

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