Brush control has been a part of range management since the profession began managing rangelands of the west.

The effects of invasive plant species have reached global scales and their related costs have been estimated in the billions of dollars. The question that has not

Do you have Power Point fatigue? This workshop is an opportunity for landowners, managers, and fire practitioners to interact with fire professionals and researchers.

Greater Prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnata) are a grassland species of conservation concern throughout much of their range, but the Nebraska Sandhills has a…

Greater Prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnata) are a species of conservation concern throughout much of their range.

Before European settlement and their introduction of stock-farming practices, vegetation communities of the Great Plains were sustained by natural and anthropogenic fires…

Overarching patch burning objectives typically are intended to create greater ecological heterogeneity; habitat and landscape diversity. In this case management objectives…

Lesser Prairie Chicken is a federal candidate species, and a state species of conservation concern within Kansas. The distribution of this species is important for…

Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPCH) range has recently been expanded in Kansas to the north and east of the historic range. The range of LPCH is used to establish conservation…

The techniques that a producer or land manager would select for monitoring of ecological resources will vary with kind and characteristics of ecological sites being…

The cattle, sheep, goats and pigs that Europeans brought to America in the late 15th century caused dramatic changes in the environmental landscape and the sociocultural…

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is being conducted under the auspices of the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The Act requires a report to the President and the…

In 1995 the University of Arizona (UA) Libraries, partnering with UA College of Agriculture & Life Sciences (CALS) rangelands specialists, joined as a charter member…

For 100 years, scientist from the USDA-ARS Southern Plains Range Research Station at Woodward, Oklahoma have developed and released or co-released with the USDA-NRCS and/…

Grazingland landscapes are often a complex mosaic of geology, topography, soils, plants, and climate. Organizing this information into sites with some common ecological…

The National Climate Assessment process directs a process with the overall goal of providing an assessment of the climate on various sectors in the United States. Climate…

In 1915, soon after the establishment of the USDA Southern Plains Range Research Station a recent graduate of Oklahoma A&M and Kansas State University, John Sieglinger…

A comprehensive monitoring plan will provide guide posts in sustainability decision making. The monitoring plan, protocols, and indicators will be looked at separately.…

Interseeding legumes into grass-dominated irrigated pastures can increase the yield and quality of forage produced and reduce the need for inputs of nitrogen fertilizer.…

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For many decades habitat for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), a species restricted to southern shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies of the south-…

Efforts to distinguish the effects of land management on ecosystem performance are difficult due to the confounding effect of interannual weather variation on productivity…

Increasingly, range managers must make decisions under conditions of uncertainty about the effects of climate change and how other demographic, social, ecological, and…

Grasslands play a critical role in providing habitat for greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido) and sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus).

Ecologically-based invasive plant management (EBIPM) is a framework for land managers to identify and repair key ecological processes to improve restoration success in…