1. What is Range Management?
Integrated Rangeland Management REM456

2. What are rangelands! Tundra of the Arctic Sagebrush Steppe
Mongolian Plains
Sonoran Desert
African Savannah
Cerrados of Brazil
Outback of Australia

3. Rangelands are everywhere

4. The Challenge… Rangelands are Diverse! Grasslands Deserts Shrublands
Savannas
Woodlands
Open Forests
Tundra
Wetlands

5. The Challenge… Many forces threaten rangeland integrity!
Unsustainable grazing practices
Damaging fire regimes
Invasive plant species
Global climate change
Human development

6. Rangeland Management is:
The use and stewardship of rangeland resources to meet goals and desires of humans.
A Planning Process
Planning examines different alternatives to see which is the “best “ future world.
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FUTURE

7. What is “Best” It depends on your point of view. Preservationists
Conservationists
Utilitarianists
Pragmatists
Etc. etc.

8. What is “Best”
Preservationists - Emphasize protecting large areas of land from mining, timber, grazing and development so they can be enjoyed by present and future generations. Founders of the preservation movement were John Muir and Aldo Leopold.
Conservationists - View land as a resource to be used now to enhance economic growth. But, land must be protected from degradation by efficient management, based on scientific principles, for sustained yield and multiple use. Early conservationists were T.R. Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and John Wesley Powell.
Utilitarianists - View land as a substrate for saleable products. Management is based on land manipulation and exogenous inputs (e.g., fertilizer or herbicides) are usually required to keep production at an optimum level.

9. Rangeland Management
Source of Decision? ? ? ? ?
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FUTURE

10. Rangeland Management Source of Decision? guesses information hunches
tradition
guesses
information
hunches
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FUTURE

11. Why do we need science?
Mangers must integrate scientific knowledge with idea, hunches, traditions, etc., to make wise decisions.
To understand the physical, biological, and social processes that affect rangelands.
To discover principles up which to base the wise use of rangelands.
Others?

12. Rangeland Management
Impacts of Decision
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FUTURE

13. Intro to Range--OBJ 2: PPT
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14. Rangeland Management What kinds of decisions do we make? CURRENT
FUTURE

15. Rangeland Management What kinds of decisions do we make?
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FUTURE
Political – laws and policies
Economic – buy, sell,
Direct actions

16. What is the role of education?

17. What is the role of education?
Convey what is known to society
Stop non-objective views
Lead to wise land use discussion and support for management actions.

18. Rangeland Management is:
The use and stewardship of rangeland resources to meet goals and desires of humans.
What do people want from rangelands?

19. Rangelands Resources Forage Wildlife Habitat Livestock Production
Water
Recreation
Open Space
Native Plants

20. Rangeland Management is:
The use and stewardship of rangeland resources to meet goals and desires of humans.
What tools do we have for Range Management?

21. Ecological Services & Resources
forage for livestock
wildlife habitat
watershed management
biodiversity conservation
open space
carbon sequestration
Forces & Impacts
Herbivory
Climate Change
Fire
Human Uses Development, Fragmentations,
& Recreation
Invasion
Rangelands Grasslands, Shrublands, Woodlands

22. Ecological Services & Resources
forage for livestock
wildlife habitat
watershed management
biodiversity conservation
open space
carbon sequestration
Forces & Impacts
Herbivory
Climate Change
Fire
Human Uses Development, Fragmentations,
& Recreation
Invasion
Rangelands Grasslands, Shrublands, Woodlands
Fire
Livestock Grazing
Weed Mgmt
Human Relations
Restoration/ Rehabilitation
Tools for Stewardship

23. Rangeland Management – Basic Concepts
Rangelands are renewable resources; they can produce on a sustained yield basis if properly managed.
Rangeland must be managed to maintain soil and water quality and health and basic biogeochemical cycles.
Rangelands are managed by extensive and ecological principles, not intensive and agronomic principles.

24. Rangeland Management – 6 Basic Concepts
Rangelands produce a variety of products (e.g., forage, recreation, water) therefore principles of multiple use are important in range management.
Many important public concerns on rangeland happen across multiple ownerships (i.e., fire, water quality, weeds, open space)
You can’t please all the people all the time. What one person wants may not meet the desires or plans of another.

25. Principles of Rangeland Management
Rangelands change through succession and disturbance. All we can really do as managers is apply, control, or respond to disturbance based on our knowledge of succession.
The only constant on rangeland is CHANGE. Conditions change from place to place (spatially) and time to time (temporally). We need to understand and accept change.
If you do nothing the land will probably not return to some pre-European paradise.

26. What is Range Management?
Integrated Rangeland Management REM456