Rangeland management

Range Management graduate research assistant recording line point intercept data on southern New Mexican rangeland.

Rangeland management (also range management, range science, or arid-land management) is a natural science that centers around the study of rangelands and the "conservation and sustainable management [of Arid-Lands] for the benefit of current societies and future generations".[1] Range management is defined by Holechek et al. as the "manipulation of rangeland components to obtain optimum combination of goods and services for society on a sustained basis".[2] The United Nations (UN) has declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, with the Food and Agriculture Organization leading the initiative.[3]

  1. ^ Society for range Management. Society for Range Management, 2016. Web. 22 Apr. 2016.
  2. ^ Holechek, Jerry L., Rex D. Pieper, and Carlton H. Herbel. Range Management: Principles and Practices (6th Edition). 6th ed. N.p.: Pearson, 2011. 5. Print.
  3. ^ "UN names 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists". www.fao.org. Retrieved May 29, 2024.