Get reliable rangeland science

In the world of range management there are countless different ways of managing. For continued rangeland improvement two questions should be kept in mind. Do different land management practices lead to different results and how do we measure those results? In the summer of 2015 we explored these questions across 5 ranches in New Mexico using remotely sensed data. To understand the effects of range management we quantified the percent of functional ground cover (bare ground, herbaceous plants, litter and half trees/shrubs), across each ranch. This gave us the ability to see management effects both temporally and spatially. The results indicate that different management practices do indeed have different effects on the land.�