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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

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  1. 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

  2. What is Range?

  3. Question 1 What is Range? • 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

  4. Question 2 How much rangeland is there? • How much of the earth’s surface is rangeland? • 10 to 20% • 25 to 35 % • 40 to 50% • 65 to 75%

  5. Question 2 How much rangeland is there? • How much of the earth’s surface is rangeland? • 47% = Rangeland • 25% = Dense Forest • 10% = Cropland • 3% = Urban • 15% = Ice, rock, and barren desert

  6. Question 3 How much rangeland is there? 47% of the EARTH is rangeland 36% of the US is rangeland 53% of Western States is rangeland ____of the Idaho is rangeland 48%

  7. Question 3 Rangelands of Idaho Grassland* Shrubland* Forest Crop Water Developed Rock Ice/Snow *Rangelands in Idaho are Grasslands and Shrublands

  8. Question 4 Which state has the highest % of is land classified as rangeland? Texas Wyoming Nevada Montana

  9. Question 4 Which state has the highest % of is land classified as rangeland? Texas54% Wyoming 75% Nevada 80% Montana57%

  10. Question 5 What is the average annual precipitation of most rangeland? • Less than 8 inches • 8 to 28 inches • 28 to 48 inches • More than 48 inches

  11. Question 5 What is the average annual precipitation of most rangeland? 8 to 28 inches

  12. Question 6 Which continent greatest of land classified as rangeland? Australia ... nearly all of Australia is rangelands

  13. Question 7 What % of wild mammal in U.S. call rangelands home? • 0 to 25% • 25 to 50% • 50 to 75% • 75 to 100% fs.usda.gov J. Peterson

  14. Question 7 Rangeland Animals • 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. fs.usda.gov J. Peterson

  15. Question 8 What is rangeland management? • Managing land mostly for livestock forage and production. • Careful use and management of rangeland resources to meet the needs and desires of society. • Careful management of to preserve wildlife habitat. • Management of driving ranges on golf courses.

  16. Question 8 What is rangeland management? The use and stewardship of rangeland resources to meet goals and desires of humans. B.

  17. Question 9 Is ecological condition of rangelands better or worse than 50 years ago? • Significantly works • About the same • Notably better • Greatly improved

  18. Question 9 Is ecological condition of rangelands better or worse than 50 years ago? significantly worse? about the same? notably better? greatly improved? Twiceas much land in “Good” condition. Half as much land in “Poor” Condition.

  19. Question 10 Rangeland Grazing by Livestock How much of earth’s land area is grazed by livestock? • 25% • 41% • 55% • 65% Photos by K. Launchbaugh

  20. Question 10 Rangeland Grazing by Livestock How much of earth’s land area is grazed by livestock? • 25% • 41% • 55% • 65% 47% all rangeland + 5% or half of croplands+ 13% half of forests Photos by K. Launchbaugh

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