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Sometimes the present plant community on a site may not meet your goals for managing livestock, wildlife, or ecosystem health. An undesirable plant community may require human intervention, where there are many strategies/methods available, to facilitate desired site- or landscape level transformations to meet management goals. Two of the most prevalent vegetation changes occurring on rangelands today is woody plant (brush) encroachment into grasslands and invasion by weedy species of forbs and grasses.

Within this topic, there are many pages covering select concepts on vegetation management and restoration with tools and resources to achieve specific land management goals.