Teacher Info:

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Teacher Info

• Have students take What is Range Quiz prior to
  presentation, asking them to do their best to
  answer the questions
• Then go through slides and discuss What is
  Range all answers are presented
• The final slide gives an opportunity to go
  through the quiz and discuss the correct answers
  as a class using Quiz Key

• Objectives
• Define rangeland
• Discuss how much rangeland there is
• Discuss who owns rangeland

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What is Range?
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What is Range?
Question 1

• A series of mountains.
• A cooking stove that has an oven and a flat top
  with burners.
• A place where shooting or golf driving is
  practiced.
• The region throughout which a kind of organism or
  ecological community naturally lives or occurs.
• All land in the world that is not cultivated
  farmland, dense forest, barren desert, or covered
  by solid rock, concrete.

All of the above
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What is rangeland?
Question 1

• Uncultivated land dominated by native plants
  grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, or shrubs.
• All land that is not farmland, dense forest,
  barren desert or land covered by solid rock,
  concrete, or glaciers

J. Peterson
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How much rangeland is there?
Question 2

• How much of the earths surface is rangeland?
• 10 to 20
• 25 to 35
• 40 to 50
• 65 to 75

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How much rangeland is there?
Question 2

• How much of the earths surface is rangeland?
• 47 Rangeland
• 25 Dense Forest
• 10 Cropland
• 3 Urban
• 15 Ice, rock, and barren desert

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How much rangeland is there?
Question 3
47 of the EARTH is rangeland
36 of the US is rangeland
53 of Western States is rangeland
____of the Idaho is rangeland
48
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Rangelands of Idaho
Question 3
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Which state has the highest of is land
classified as rangeland?
Question 4
Wyoming
Texas
Nevada
Montana
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Which state has the highest of is land
classified as rangeland?
Question 4
Wyoming 75
Texas54
Nevada 80
Montana57
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What is the average annual precipitation of most
rangeland?
Question 5

1. Less than 8 inches
2. 8 to 28 inches
3. 28 to 48 inches
4. More than 48 inches

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What is the average annual precipitation of most
rangeland?
Question 5
8 to 28 inches
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Which continent greatest of land classified as
rangeland?
Question 6
Australia ... nearly all of Australia is
rangelands
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What of wild mammal in U.S. call rangelands
home?
Question 7

1. 0 to 25
2. 25 to 50
3. 50 to 75
4. 75 to 100

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Rangeland Animals
Question 7

• Rangelands provide habitat for countless mammals,
  birds, amphibians, fishes, and insects.
• Of the total number of animal species found in
  the United States.
• 84 of the mammals,
• 74 of the birds,
• 58 of the amphibians and
• 38 of the fishes are represented in rangeland
  ecosystems.

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What is rangeland management?
Question 8

1. Managing land mostly for livestock forage and
   production.
2. Careful use and management of rangeland resources
   to meet the needs and desires of society.
3. Careful management of to preserve wildlife
   habitat.
4. Management of driving ranges on golf courses.

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What is rangeland management?
Question 8

• The use and stewardship of rangeland resources to
  meet goals and desires of humans.

B.
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Is ecological condition of rangelands better or
worse than 50 years ago?
Question 9

1. Significantly works
2. About the same
3. Notably better
4. Greatly improved

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Is ecological condition of rangelands better or
worse than 50 years ago?
Question 9
significantly worse? about the same? notably
better? greatly improved?
Twice as much land in Good condition. Half as
much land in Poor Condition.
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Rangeland Grazing by Livestock
Question 10

• How much of earths land area is grazed by
  livestock?
• 25
• 41
• 55
• 65

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Rangeland Grazing by Livestock
Question 10

• How much of earths land area is grazed by
  livestock?
• 25
• 41
• 55
• 65

47 all rangeland 5 or half of
croplands 13 half of forests
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