| reindeer in the swedish mountains: an assessment of grazing impacts. | during the last decade, several well-publicized grazing-related incidents of vegetation degradation have helped to form an official opinion of overutilization of some mountain areas and a concern that swedish reindeer husbandry may not be ecologically sustainable. we examine these examples in a temporal and management perspective to assess the scale of impact on summer grazing grounds in the swedish mountains. long-term data on population dynamics of reindeer show no trend with fluctuations arou ... | 2003 | 14627368 |