Land that supplies forage or vegetation (grasses, grasslike plants, and shrubs) for grazing and browsing animals and is not intensively managed. Compare feedlot, pasture.
Land cover/use category on which the climax or potential plant cover is composed principally of native grasses, grasslike plants, forbs or shrubs suitable for grazing and browsing, and introduced forage species that are managed like rangeland. This would include areas where introduced hardy and persistent grasses, such as crested wheatgrass, are planted and such practices as deferred grazing, burning, chaining, and rotational grazing are used, with little or no chemicals or fertilizer being applied. Grasslands, savannas, many wetlands, some deserts, and tundra are considered to be rangeland. Certain communities of low forbs and shrubs, such as mesquite, chaparral, mountain shrub, and pinyon-juniper, are also included as rangeland.
Land that provides or is capable of providing forage for grazing animals.
(animal science) A large open land area on which livestock wander and graze. The native vegetation is mainly grasses, forbs, and shrubs.
A kind of land on which the native vegetation, climax or natural potential, consists predominately of grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, or shrubs. Rangeland includes lands revegetated naturally or artificially to provide a plant cover that is managed like native vegetation. Rangelands may consist of natural grasslands, savannas, shrublands, most deserts, tundra, alpine communities, coastal marshes, and wet meadows.
lan suitable for grazing livestock
Land, mostly grasslands, whose plants can provide food (i.e., forage) for grazing or browsing animals. See feedlot.
Land on which the historic climax plant community is predominantly grasses, grasslike plants, forbs, or shrubs. Includes lands revegetated naturally or artificially when routine management of that vegetation is accomplished mainly through manipulation of grazing. Rangeland includes natural grasslands, savannas, shrublands, most deserts, tundra, alpine communities, coastal marshes, and wet meadows.
Land on which the native vegetation (climax or natural potential) is predominantly grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, or shrubs suitable for grazing or browsing use. Includes lands revegetated naturally or artificially to provide a forage cover that is managed like native vegetation. Rangelands include natural grassland, savannas, shrublands, most deserts, tundra, alpine communities, costal marshes, and wet meadows.
Land, usually in the West, that is used for grazing of animals rather than for growing crops.
unimproved grasslands, shrublands, savannas, and tundra
an expanse of land suitable for livestock to wander and graze on.
Land on which the natural potential (climax) plant cover is principally native grasses, grasslike plants, and shrubs. It includes natural grasslands, savannahs, certain shrubs and grasslike lands, most deserts, tundra, alpine communities, coastal marshlands, and wet meadows. It also includes lands that are re-vegetated naturally or artificially and are managed like native vegetation. The United States has 399 million acres of non-federal rangeland, about 30% of all non-federal rural lands, according to the 1992 National Resources Inventory. The BLM manages approximately 167 million acres of federal rangelands, and the Forest Service manages approximately 95 million acres of federal rangelands.
Any expanse of land that is suitable for grazing and is not fertilized, cultivated, or irrigated.
Land on which the natural plant cover is made up primarily of native grasses, forbs, or shrubs valuable for forage.
land on which the vegetation is predominantly grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, or shrubs, and is routinely managed through grazing.
Grasslands and open woodlands suitable for livestock grazing.
Rangeland refers to a large, mostly unimproved section of land that is predominantly used for livestock grazing. This is land on which the natural vegetation is dominated by native grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, and shrubs. Rangeland also consists of areas seeded to native or adapted introduced species that are managed like native vegetation.