Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Later Developments in the West.
Keeping too many livestock on a piece of land, leading to the rapid exhaustion and erosion of grazing grass.
Overstocking appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Later Developments in the West and Changes in Farming and Settlement.
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