Grazing on public lands is the practice of raising livestock on land that is not privately owned. Livestock such as cattle and sheep eat forage (grass and other herbage) on the public land. Through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first,...

Concentrated in 16 western states, rangelands comprise 770 million acres (311.6 million ha) and over one-third of the land base in the United States. Rangelands are vegetated predominately by shrubs, and they include grasslands, tundra, marsh, meadow,...

In the United States, around 399 million acres (1,610,000 km²) of rangeland are privately owned. The Bureau of Land Management manages about 167 million acres (676,000 km²) of publicly owned rangeland, with the United States Forest Service managing...

Within desolate tracts of land in the Northern Plains and Pacific West areas, mounting dust conceals historic pioneer trails, and wild horses roam free. In quiet desert streams, rare Lahontan cutthroat trout struggle to survive. Monitoring the health of these vast lands...

Heady, Harold F., and R. Dennis Child. 1994. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. xvi + 519 p. $59.85, ISBN: 0-8133-2052-6 (alk. paper). Ecology is the fundamental scientific discipline of rangeland science which is the fundamental scientific discipline of rangeland management technology. This linkage...

The third snowstorm in as many weeks barreled into Colorado on Friday, blanketing the Denver area with up to 8 inches of new snow and further hampering efforts to rescue thousands of cattle stranded by last week's blizzard.Crews worked around the clock to clear roads...

The third snowstorm in as many weeks swept into Colorado on Friday, further hampering efforts to restore power to rural homes and rescue thousands of cattle stranded by last week's blizzard.Several school districts canceled classes Friday because of blowing snow in the region, where the...