Proactive management of pestiferous rangeland grasshopper habitat of the Northern Plains

Pestiferous rangeland grasshopper population outbreaks can be extremely detrimental to the plant resources of a region, which in turn, can have devastating consequences for the livestock that depend on those plants for forage and for the beef producers that depend on the nutrients produced by the forage plants for family income. The information in this report explains what, why, how, and when Northern Plains beef producers and land managers could change traditional grazingland management practices three years before the next grasshopper problem to prevent or reduce the damaging ecological and economical impacts caused by pestiferous rangeland grasshopper population increases. These paradigm changes are proactive long-term land management strategies that are favorable for livestock production and create habitat unfavorable for pest grasshopper production and that are sensible alternatives to the typical reactive short-term chemical insecticide spray treatments implemented after the grasshopper numbers have intensified.