overgrazes
Strips fields bare
Overgrazes means to allow livestock to graze land so heavily that vegetation cannot recover.
The practice damages pastures, causes soil erosion, and can turn grassland into desert: The rancher overgrazes his fields every summer.
Third-person singular present tense of overgraze.
Grazing ground for livestock
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
rangeland · fodder · herd · forage · overstocking · browsing · ranching · meadow
Gradual wearing away
- depletionReduction of supply
- desertificationLand becoming barren, infertile
- barrenUnable to produce
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
famine · sedimentation · gullying · recovery · revegetation
pasture
Grazing ground for livestock
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
goats · rangeland · fodder · herd · forage · overstocking · browsing · ranching · meadow · paddock
erosion
Gradual wearing away
- depletionReduction of supply
- desertificationLand becoming barren, infertile
- barrenUnable to produce
drought · famine · sedimentation · gullying · recovery · revegetation
overgrazesconserves
Protects from depletion
fallows · restores · regenerates · stewards · rehabilitates