The Sierra Nevada of California provides a variety of natural resources including wildlife habitat and livestock forage. Livestock grazing affects different species of wildlife in different ways, and the effects depend on how those livestock are managed. Changes in livestock numbers, changes in timing of grazing, and rotational grazing systems can all be used to insure maintenance of wildlife habitat values. This paper reviews how some of those livestock management practices affect such wildlife species as mule deer, small mammals, great gray owls, willow flycatchers, and others. This information will be useful in the revising of livestock Allotment Management plans by the U.S. Forest Service, a major public land management agency in the Sierra Nevada.
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