Overgraze

One of the key features of digital commons - like free software or science - is that there is no tragedy in the classical sense: it is impossible for users to "overgraze" a digital commons in the way they can a physical one. ❋ Glyn Moody (2007)

We are supposed to allow them to overgraze the West, Lummis said. ❋ AP (2011)

A road will not only force the animals to overgraze in the south, leading to the dramatic reduction in the sizes of the herds, but also allow in invasive species and lead to greater poaching. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But if the program isn't funded appropriately and horses are not removed, "wild horses will continue to overgraze the range . which means starving horses," Simpson said. ❋ AP (2011)

Once this grass had dominated the landscape the way the sage did now, until early cattlemen had allowed their cattle to overgraze it. ❋ Janet Dailey (2011)

The prey then overgraze, taking food and habitat from other species and lowering the ecosystem's biodiversity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He came right out and said that farmers and ranchers from Montana to Texas had created a disaster when they allowed their cattle to overgraze the prairie or plowed up grassland and left it lying fallow for the heat and the wind to do its work. ❋ Jack Todd (2010)

They overgraze areas allowing severe erosion resulting in further degradation of the habitat. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When ranchers overgraze their cattle and sheep on fragile grasslands, they can tip the ecology of the region over into a desert. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

And the later opens up another big can of worms - they overgraze the land, and the only predator left are their friends - us. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

In a famous 1968 essay, biologist Garrett Hardin postulated that in a pasture, open to all, competitive behavior would impel cattlemen to overgraze their animals beyond the capacity the commons can handle. ❋ Unknown (2009)