Date of Award:
5-1991
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Wildland Resources
Department name when degree awarded
Range Science
Committee Chair(s)
Brien E. Norton
Committee
Brien E. Norton
Abstract
I empirically tested an hypothesis derived from a popularized version of Garrett Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" paradigm. Some range-development authors predict overgrazing and ecological abuse on all traditional communal rangelands. I estimated forage production, consumption, and season of use on one traditional agdal or intertribal common in the Moroccan Western High Atlas Mountains. Results from 1984-85 do not support the overgrazing predicted by "tragedy" proponents. I argue that the lack of overgrazing is not coincidental but is due to the traditional communal mechanism of controlling season of use.
Recommended Citation
Mendes, Lloyd, "An Ecological Test of the Tragedy of the Commons on Communal Rangeland in the Moroccan Western High Atlas" (1991). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 8938.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/8938
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