A Framework for Cooperation Across the U.S./Mexico Border

Abstract

A common framework for research and technical assistance to ranchers based on shared natural resources would provide benefits to both the USA and Mexico. The development of such a framework for rangelands requires agreement on common resource problem definitions, management practice standards, mapping areas of common resources, and developing a common database of management effects on resources. The framework proposed in this paper, consisting of common resource problem and management system definitions and the delineation of common Major Land Resource Areas across the border, proposes that some ecological site concepts used in the USA be adapted for use in Mexico.