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Workshop Outline

Workshop Outline. Rangeland Ecosystems How Plants Grow Vegetation Dynamics (plant succession) on Rangelands Principles of Grazing Management Concepts & Principles for Grazing Systems Nutritional Considerations for Management of Livestock on Rangelands

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Workshop Outline

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  1. Workshop Outline • Rangeland Ecosystems • How Plants Grow • Vegetation Dynamics (plant succession) on Rangelands • Principles of Grazing Management • Concepts & Principles for Grazing Systems • Nutritional Considerations for Management of Livestock on Rangelands • The Grazing Manager as a Tool for Planning, Monitoring and Managing Range and Pasture Lands

  2. Rangelands:Kinds, Products & Uses Mort Kothmann Texas A&M University

  3. Rangeland Diversity • Attributes • Climate • Soils • Topography • Vegetation • Uses • Livestock production • Wildlife habitat/production • Watershed • Biodiversity and open space • Real estate value

  4. Dominant historical use has been livestock production

  5. Fire, herbivory, and weather have historically been the major disturbances affecting vegetation on rangelands.

  6. Vegetation types of world

  7. Kinds of Rangelands The following slides provide examples of diverse kinds of rangelands found around the world.

  8. African Savanna

  9. California Oak Savanna –Annual Grassland

  10. Cheatgrass - Idaho

  11. Artic Tundra

  12. Aspen – Tall Forb – Grassland Western US

  13. Texas Rolling Plains Grassland

  14. Mountain & Basin semi-desert shrubland

  15. Southern mixed prairie grassland

  16. Rio Grande Plains Thorn Shrubland

  17. Texas Coastal Prairie: Atwater’s prairie chicken

  18. Rangelands have very diverse climates, soils, vegetation, and animals. Rangeland ecosystems have different productive potentials and require different kinds of management to sustain or reclaim them.

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