Monitoring gathers information about how rangelands respond to management over time. This information can be used to make changes in management. A good monitoring program provides information on maintaining or improving a resource while producing products like pounds of meat, clean water, and wildlife habitat. When monitoring rangelands, managers routinely measure forage utilization or the amount of forage eaten. Unfortunately, monitoring utilization alone ignores other factors important to rangeland condition such as, how long animals graze, when they graze and growing conditions.
Articles, citations, reports, websites, and multimedia resources focused on rangeland ecology, management, restoration, and other issues on American rangelands.