Term

Key range management components

Definition

1. Protection and enhancement of soil and vegetation complex. 2. Maintaining or improving output of consumable range products, such as red meat, wildlife, water, wood, fiber, recreation, etc. – Range management deals with manipulating the grazing activities of large herbivores so both plant and animal production will be improved or maintained.

Term

Four basic principles in range management

Definition

1. Proper stocking rate, excessive conflict. 2. Proper distribution of grazing animals. 3. Proper kinds of grazing animals. 4. Proper grazing system.

Term

Ruminant

Definition

Have enlarged compartment (rumen) that permits microbial degradation of food before it passes to the stomach (abomasum)—cow, deer, sheep, goat, elk, moose.